Author: Laura Robinson

The chancellor spent most of her first six months issuing dire warnings about the calamitous state of the public finances she inherited.But now, in a dramatic change of tone, Rachel Reeves is celebrating the UK’s economic possibilities. Inspired by Donald Trump’s economic boosterism, and despite the UK’s flatlining growth figures, she told Trevor Phillips she’s spent the past few days in Davos “shouting on the world stage about everything our great country has to offer”.”My enthusiasm and excitement… has never burned brighter.”But this optimistic message isn’t just part of a new international sales pitch, a riposte to critics who believe…

Bruno Fernandes pulled the strings in an outstanding midfield performance at Anfield – AFP/Darren StaplesManchester United produced their best performance of a dismal season in Sunday’s 2-2 draw with Liverpool at Anfield. It left an angry Ruben Amorim scratching his head as to why his players have been unable to demonstrate that fight and character consistently. Telegraph Sport picks over the most encouraging aspects of an uplifting afternoon for United that Amorim will hope marks the start of a corner turned.Captain Fernandes answers Amorim’s call to armsIt is approaching two years since Bruno Fernandes was vilified for his petulance in…

A British national was among at least 14 people killed in the vehicle attack in New Orleans on New Year’s Day, the Foreign Office has confirmed.He was named by the Metropolitan Police as Edward Pettifer, 31, of Chelsea, London.In a statement, the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office said it was supporting the victim’s family.During the attack, a man in a pick-up truck ploughed through crowds on the city’s Bourbon Street before being killed by police. The New Orleans coroner gave Mr Pettifer’s preliminary cause of death as “blunt force injuries” suffered on Bourbon Street, PA reports.In a statement, Mr Pettifer’s…

Groundhog Day is a comedy classic and a fan theory about Bill Murray’s comedy classic has proven to be very popular on Reddit. The movie never explained why Phil Connors was trapped in a time loop, living the same day over and over. But what if it was the ever-annoying Ned Ryerson who cursed him, because he was the devil?Reddit user SuperConductiveRabbi writes: “When Phil first encounters Ned he insults him. Immediately after the insult Phil steps into a puddle, and Ned remarks, ‘Well-ha-ha! Watch out for that first step, it’s a doozy!’ The ‘first step’ Ned refers to [is]…

An exploding star that will be visible to the naked eye for the first time in 80 years is running late, with astronomers keenly looking out for the rare event.The explosion T Corona Borealis, also known as T Cor Bor, is a phenomenon caused by two stars that orbit one another 3,000 light years away.A tiny white dwarf star is orbiting a much bigger star and the smaller of the dyad is slowly sucking matter from its companion and accruing a thin hydrogen skin around its barren surface.This flammable blanket of gas will ignite in a nuclear explosion when the…

Sunday should be a day of rest for even the most hard-charging boss. Not for Jensen Huang. As the weekend draws to a close, the man who built microchip designer Nvidia into one the world’s most valuable companies likes nothing better than to pour himself a glass of Highland Park – the Scotch whisky favoured by Sir Winston Churchill – and start catching up on hundreds of emails.Remarkably, Huang will reply to every one of them. That’s because these aren’t just any old emails. Sent from employees at every level of the company, each contains just five bullet points –…

Nigel Farage has threatened to take legal action against Tory leader Kemi Badenoch if she does not apologise for accusing him of publishing a “fake” ticker showing Reform UK’s membership increasing to overtake the Conservatives.The Reform UK leader has reacted furiously to Ms Badenoch’s assertion that he was “manipulating [his] own supporters” with a ticker that is “coded to tick up automatically” after it showed the insurgent right-wing party had gone past 131,680 members – the number of eligible Conservative Party members in its leadership election in the autumn. He is demanding an apology from Ms Badenoch for the “accusations…

-Credit:Matthew Peters/Manchester United via Getty Images.”I feel like I am living a dream,” Javier Hernandez said after agreeing to join Manchester United in April 2010. “All the impressions I have of the club are good and Sir Alex Ferguson is a great person, maybe the best coach in the world.”Heads were turned when United’s search for a new striker led them on a trip across the Atlantic to Mexico. Ferguson already had Wayne Rooney, Dimitar Berbatov, Michael Owen and Danny Welbeck among his forward options but he was hungry for more quality.Hernandez, who was commonly known as Chicharito, was playing…

Protests have broken out in Syria over the burning of a Christmas tree, prompting calls for the new Islamist authorities to take steps to protect minorities. A video posted on social media showed the tree on fire in the main square of Suqaylabiyah, a Christian-majority town in central Syria.Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the main Islamist faction which led the uprising that toppled President Bashar al-Assad, said foreign fighters had been detained over the incident.HTS representatives have promised to protect the rights and freedoms of religious and ethnic minorities in Syria.Footage on social media appeared to show masked men dousing the…

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