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Methodology: how we trained a machine learning model to analyse rhetoric on immigration in the UK parliament over the course of a century The Guardian has revealed a significant rightward shift toward sentiment relating to immigration among MPs speaking in the House of Commons in the past five years. To do this analysis the Guardian’s Data Science and Data Projects teams, in collaboration with Un…

Ofgem cap drops by 7% to £1,641 a year for consumers’ average gas and electricity costs Business live – latest updates Annual energy bills will fall by £117 for millions of households from April after Rachel Reeves’s plan to cut £150 a year from bills was partly foiled by rising costs. The energy regulator Ofgem’s quarterly cap will fall by 7% a year for the three months from April to £1,641 for …

End of government subsidies drives electricity costs up by 19% in the month and leaves power bills nearly a third higher than they were a year earlier Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The Reserve Bank is more likely to hike rates again, and potentially twice before the end of the year, after new figures revealed in…

In today’s newsletter: With the latest supreme court ruling exposing the president’s tariff plans as unlawful, US politicians and the American people have found them to be unworkable. Where does Trump go from here? Good morning. Let’s delve into the two Ts shaping the global economy right now: tariffs and Trump. Last week, the US supreme court ruled that Donald Trump had unlawfully used executive…

The president’s lengthy speech to Congress contained myriad inflated, misleading or simply false claims Donald Trump officially made the longest State of the Union address in history on Tuesday night, with broad claims about the successes achieved during the first year of his second term. But the speech that stretched across more than an hour and 41 minutes was filled with strong statements, many…

Amid Trump’s lies and xenophobic rants, people struggling to pay bills and make ends meet are unlikely to be moved He wanted to give the king’s speech. Donald Trump entered the US House chamber on Tuesday like a medieval monarch, with Republicans lined up eager to touch his royal robes (or, in two cases, grab a selfie with him). But within moments, the illusion was shattered. As the US president …

Surface-to-air missiles, which are capable of shooting down aircraft and ballistic missiles, will be located on Yonaguni, Japan’s westernmost island Japan will deploy missiles to a tiny island near Taiwan within five years, its defence minister has said, in a move that is likely to inflame tensions with China. The surface-to-air missiles, which are capable of shooting down aircraft and ballistic …

Criminal proceedings will not follow as posters ‘satisfied certain aspects’ of the hate symbol legislation but not others Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Police will return seized art posters to a Canberra music venue that depicted Donald Trump and other world leaders in Nazi uniforms , confirming there would be n…

Researchers discover rare periods of a few thousands years when climate unexpectedly awoke from slumber During the ”snowball Earth” period about 700m years ago, Earth’s climate shut down. The planet was encased in ice and insulated from seasonal variations: spring, summer, autumn and winter all stopped. Or at least that was the theory. Recent examination of some ancient rocks from the west coast …

Thousands more people across Devon and Cornwall could join case against water firm A group legal claim against South West Water alleging sewage pollution into coastal waters is harming businesses and individuals has been expanded across Devon and Cornwall. Thousands more individuals could now join the first environmental community group legal action against a water company over the impact of sewa…

Virginia’s new governor and California senator focus succinct messages on cost, safety and humanity Democrats refuse to stand for Trump as Al Green ejected over ‘apes’ protest sign Virginia governor Abigail Spanberger gave a crisp and pointed rebuttal to Donald Trump ’s State of the Union address on Tuesday night, focusing on what she called the president’s failure to deliver costs, safety and hu…

Human remains suspected of being those of Baghsarian were found on Tuesday morning near a golf club in Pitt Town, on Sydney’s northwest fringe Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Two men have been arrested “in relation to the alleged kidnapping and murder of 85-year-old Chris Baghsarian”, police have said. New South W…

Zoopla says it is on target for highest number of new listings on its site in any February in a decade Spring has come early to the UK housing market, with a surge in people listing their homes for sale as confidence returns to the sector, a report by the property website Zoopla found. The site said this month was on course to record the highest number of newly listed homes for sale in any Februa…

Rebound in the country – which has been having demographic crisis – said to be partly because of 3.6 million born between 1991 and 1995 having children South Korea recorded 254,500 births in 2025, the largest annual increase in 15 years, driven largely by a temporarily enlarged generation – known as “echo boomers” – now in their early thirties, alongside marriage rates recovering from Covid-era d…

Earnings report released on Wednesday shows supermarket made $859m net profit in past six months as higher prices hit shoppers Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Woolworths has reported a significant 16.4% rise in profit, helped by expanding its margins in its key supermarket business. In its half-year earnings repor…