Moonlighting mandarins: Civil servants paid up to £225,000 a year by the taxpayer cash in with second jobs
Across Whitehall, dozens of mandarins up to chief executive level have declared second jobs in the past two years, a Daily Mail audit has found.
Chaos as major route CLOSED due to 'incident' near busy airport
A120 eastbound near Stansted Airport is affected by an unconfirmed incident between the airport and Takeley, with delays expected.
Chaos as major route CLOSED due to 'incident' near busy airport
A120 eastbound near Stansted Airport is affected by an unconfirmed incident between the airport and Takeley, with delays expected.
Frozen part II: Hackers remotely defrost produce in Euro supermarkets ... again
Let it go (bad): Dozens of stores report mass food wastage as managers start their week in puddles
All aboard the world's best train rides: From Michelin-starred dining through Tuscan vineyards to Switzerland's Alpine 'Glacier Express' and the peaks and valleys of Scotland
From the UK to Australia and everywhere in between, the world's top train trips have been revealed by glossy holiday bible Conde Nast Traveller.
Britney Spears recalls time her sons 'lied' to her and slams Kevin Federline and sister Jamie Lynn while vowing she 'will find a new family'
Spears, 44, on Sunday showed off her dancing to the Chris Isaak song Baby Did A Bad Bad Thing in a one-piece black lingerie bodysuit.
Scourge of the 'porch pirates': Moment prolific parcel thief is caught stealing from homes on doorbell footage
There were 12,802 parcel thefts recorded by 31 police forces across the UK between July 2025 and June this year - an 87 per cent increase on the previious 12 months.
Labour's '£100 energy bailout for the North' will 'miss out 830,000 of the poorest households'
In a bid to help Brits facing soaring energy costs, the Chancellor splurged £2.6billion on payments of £100 for up to 20 million households in council tax bands A to D.
Thatcher's Big Bang is a distant memory under Burnham and Healey, says RUTH SUNDERLAND
What a bitter irony that John Healey should deliver his deadening first Budget in the week of the 40th anniversary of Big Bang.
Calls to ban disruptive passengers from airports as Stansted Airport workers abused
82% of staff received verbal abuse at least monthly while more than a quarter had been physically attacked
George Russell's 's***show' snub to title-winning team-mate: 'Distraught' Brit walks out on Kimi Antonelli's F1 celebrations - and takes a £4,000 fine
Antonelli, aged 20 years and 68 days, became the youngest Formula One title-winner in history after finishing third at the Mexican GP, wrapping up the crown with four races to spare.
Cars are swept away as roads transform into raging rivers on Greek holiday island amid ferocious storms in the Med
Torrential rain has battered Greece, unleashing severe flooding that swept cars away and turned roads into rivers.
Labour is 'making up' China policy on the hoof: MPs' damning report says UK security is at risk because ministers don't want to offend Beijing
A report from MPs criticised Labour's approach to Beijing as the 'worst of both worlds' as ministers were accused of 'making up its China policy as it goes along'.
Yes, you CAN wear leather after 60: I've dropped to a size 8 on Mounjaro. Here's how I'm styling my winter wardrobe to look classy - even in a mini skirt
Anyone looking to revamp their autumn/winter wardrobe will have noticed that leather and faux leather are everywhere.
Woke theatre bosses slap a trigger warning on Anne Boleyn play as they caution audiences show will feature 'execution by beheading'
Woke theatre bosses have slapped a trigger warning on a new play about Anne Boleyn, which warns audiences that the show will feature 'execution by beheading'.
Helen Flanagan says she's 'probably going to be arrested' after furious altercation with a traffic warden as she rages: 'Hell hath no fury if you get my wrath!'
Helen Flanagan has told how she's 'probably going to be arrested' after she had a furious altercation with a traffic warden.
Itch Is Being Flooded By AI-Generated Garbage
The number of game pages being created per-day on Itch has doubled, the indie games site announced Saturday on Bluesky. When asked why, they responded: "take a guess."
As the gaming news site Aftermath puts it, "the surge has been almost entirely down to AI-created garbage racing onto the platform as the popularity of vibe-coded theft, copycats and machine-built slop explodes."
Back in 2024, when the spectre of AI-'created' video games was still in its infancy, indie platform itch.io decided that the best it could do to combat this growing threat was, like Valve has done with Steam, institute a voluntary 'AI' filter when adding new projects to the site. By November 2026, as itch buckles under the weight of new AI-generated 'games' pouring onto the site, that filter is proving about as robust as a wet paper bag.... Shopfronts are being deluged by this shit, and it's making it a terrible user experience for customers.
And while in Valve's case there's a compelling case for stronger human moderation of the store, I'm not sure that's a viable option for a relatively tiny, community-run platform like itch... [A]t time of writing I visited the latest releases section and there was still a huge number of clearly AI-generated titles (or titles making extensive use of AI in their visual assets) which made no use of itch's voluntary tag system.
The issue here isn't that these games are making money--itch themselves say in a reply that while the number of projects listed has doubled, "the number of downloads and purchases has not"--it's that an inability to combat this surge makes the site worse for every single person using it. It gets harder to find real games, for example, and it also makes the shopfront look like a clearance rack.
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Anthropic's IPO prospectus is big on promises, short on answers to tough questions
Pity Sam Altman: He's going to have a lot more explaining to do when OpenAI follows this work of abstract legal art
Burnham refuses to say 171,000-a-year legal immigration is too high - because it is 'planned'
Andy Burnham said the level of net migration had 'come right down' and was in a 'much better place' - suggesting the numbers were needed for 'gaps in the economy'.
I've been on acid reflux medication for many years. Now I'm wheezing and suffering chest infections: DR SCURR reveals unexpected signs your omeprazole may have stopped working
A reader asks: I've been suffering dry throat, tickly cough and chest infections, with high levels of mucus, as well as bouts of breathlessness and wheezing. Could omeprazole be to blame?