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Nigel Farage isn't ready to be Prime Minister. And I know that not because of the complaints of his enemies, but what I hear from his closest allies.

Internal memos about the Queen's beloved royal yacht, Tony and Cherie Blair's expenses, and the Prime Minister's evening with Hollywood stars all feature in the latest National Archives release.

Dressed in pinstripes, with phone pressed to her ear as she strides the streets of New York, she is every inch the high-flying executive.

Tony Ray wrote Circle Of Lions: Nicholas Ray, Gloria Grahame and Me, in 1958, but the memoir's contents are so scandalous it could only be published after his death.

Rosie Roche, 20, who was the granddaughter of Princess Diana's uncle, died at her family home on July 14. The 20-year-old was found by her mother and sister.

Judge Allison Burroughs is presiding over the lawsuit to determine whether the Trump administration can legally defund Harvard for not taking a strong enough stance against antisemitism on campus.

An anonymous reader shares a report: In 2023 and 2024, the hottest years on record, more than 78 million acres of forests burned around the globe. The fires sent veils of smoke and several billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, subjecting millions of people to poor air quality. Extreme forest-fire years are becoming more common because of climate change, new research suggests. "Climate change is loading the dice for extreme fire seasons like we've seen," said John Abatzoglou, a climate scientist at the University of California Merced. "There are going to be more fires like this." The area of forest canopy lost to fire during 2023 and 2024 was at least two times greater than the annual average of the previous nearly two decades, according to a new study published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The researchers used imagery from the LANDSAT satellite network to determine how tree cover had changed from 2002 to 2024, and compared that with satellite detections of fire activity to see how much canopy loss was because of fire. Globally, the area of land burned by wildfires has decreased in recent decades, mostly because humans are transforming savannas and grasslands into less flammable landscapes. But the area of forests burned has gone up.

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The man from Epping is one of six arrested following the protest

Announces beta for separate production and development databases that will land in a few weeks

Vibe coding service Replit has announced changes to its product that should prevent the database deletion disaster reported by one of its users.…

TARA ANSON-WALSH: Kelly has taken just nine penalties in her club and international career, scoring seven. All three of her England penalties have come in shootouts, and she's never missed.

Council unveils plans for housing and other development across borough for the next 18 years

Eight police officers have been injured

The Coldplay 'kiss cam' footage made international headlines. An Aussie relationship expert has weighed in on why older men don't always necessarily go the cliché 'younger model' route.

Moffat Konofilia, 48, was living in the temporary accommodation for migrants at the time the offence was carried out on Weymouth seafront, Dorset in December 2023.

The divorced parents-of-one famously portrayed Capeside High School sweethearts on The WB teen soap Dawson's Creek for six seasons spanning 1998-2003

Julian Story was allegedly killed by his partner, former Beauty and the Geek contestant Tamika Chesser, at his home in Port Lincoln on June 17.

"This keeps giving me a primary key violation!" complained one of Nancy's co-workers. "Screw it, I'm dropping the primary key constraint!"

That was a terrifying thing to hear someone say out loud. Nancy decided to take a look at the table before anyone did anything they'd regret.

CREATE TYPE record_enum AS ENUM('parts'); CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS parts ( part_uuid VARCHAR(40) NOT NULL, record record_enum NOT NULL, ... ... ... PRIMARY KEY (part_uuid, record) );

This table has a composite primary key. The first is a UUID, and the second is an enum with only one option in it- the name of the table. The latter column seems, well, useless, and certainly isn't going to make the primary key any more unique. But the UUID column should be unique. Universally unique, even.

Nancy writes:

Was the UUID not unique enough, or perhaps it was too unique?! They weren't able to explain why they had designed the table this way.

Nor were they able to explain why they kept violating the primary key constraint. It kept happening to them, for some reason until eventually it stopped happening, also for some reason.

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We know the type. The sort of man you shouldn't touch with a barge pole but - flattered, gullible, gauche - we can't resist.

AI ignored instruction to freeze code, forgot it could roll back errors, and generally made a terrible hash of things

The founder of SaaS business development outfit SaaStr has claimed AI coding tool Replit deleted a database despite his instructions not to change any code without permission.…

As Douglas Cunningham was cycling home on July 10 last year he spotted a tourist hauling suitcases across Clifton Suspension Bridge who appeared a little lost.