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Gareth Southgate has dropped a strong hint that he could walk away from the England manager’s job, saying he feels “conflicted” about whether to stay on in light of the various lows of the past 18 months. Southgate remains physically and mentally shattered by his team’s World Cup quarter-final defeat against France on Saturday night, although he is proud of how they played. Southgate did enjoy the finals but the same cannot be said of some of his other experiences in recent times, beginning with the fallout from the penalty shootout defeat against Italy in the European Championship final in the summer…

Great Britain’s electricity system operator has put two coal-fired power stations on emergency standby to keep the lights on amid a spell of cold weather. National Grid Electricity System Operator (ESO) said the two “winter contingency coal units” will be available if required on Monday as temperatures dip below zero and demand soars. It said the public “should continue to use energy as normal”. The government this summer asked the owners of coal-fired power stations to slow closure plans as ministers looked to shore up energy supplies following the invasion of Ukraine by Russia. Russia was previously a big supplier…

The latest episode of the Elon Musk-endorsed “Twitter Files,” internal communications about the social media giant’s “free speech suppression” on the platform, reveals a soft-on-Biden tough-on-Trump bias in content enforcement, raising questions about how heavily the social media platform put its finger on the scales in the 2020 election. The latest set of internal Twitter communications, titled “The Removal of Donald Trump,” dives into the actions of Twitter executives during the period from October 2020 to Jan. 8, 2021, when Trump was banned from the platform. Internal Slack chats at Twitter, shared and commented on by investigative journalist Matt Taibbi in a lengthy…

Six Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee have launched an investigation looking into whether major climate groups are violating federal antitrust laws in their effort to push the “environmental, social, and governance” (ESG) agenda. Their concerns were raised in a letter dated Dec. 6 to two executives on the steering committee for investor group Climate Action 100+ in which the Republicans argued that ESG, at its core, was “merely partisan politics masquerading as responsible corporate governance.” The ESG agenda has now included “stifling investment in oil and gas,” gun control, abortion access, and “fake news dissemination,” according to the letter. The lawmakers…

The UK has experienced its coldest night of the year so far, with temperatures in Scotland dipping below -15C. Braemar in Aberdeenshire recorded -15.7C overnight, the Met Office said. It came as commuters faced travel chaos on Monday morning as large parts of the UK were hit by ice, fog and snow. The Met Office issued yellow severe weather alerts due to the wintry conditions. Among locations with fresh snow on Sunday were Andrewsfield in Essex (9cm), Charlwood, Surrey (5cm) and Herstmonceux, East Sussex (4cm). Roads in eastern and south-east England were among the worst affected. Drivers on the M25 were stranded…

Tite had just pledged to dance along with his Brazil squad, and to hell with the churls, when he alighted upon another form of visual display. “When we paint a painting, the entire painting is the athletes,” he said. “They are the ones who are portrayed in this painting and we are just participants. We just contribute to the painting; the painting is just the players themselves.” If they are to draw a line under two barren decades, Brazil will have to master all the arts. The choreographed routines that greeted each goal against South Korea were looked upon dimly in some quarters but…

Nicola Sturgeon’s authority over her party continued to disintegrate yesterday after the SNP’s longest-serving MP launched a scathing attack on its new Westminster leader Stephen Flynn. Pete Wishart quit the SNP front bench in the House of Commons and accused Mr Flynn of a rebellion to bring down former leader Ian Blackford. Defence spokesman Stewart McDonald, one of the SNP’s most prominent MPs, also quit his role after Mr Flynn vowed to ‘shake things up’, while its chief whip was axed. As tensions heightened in the party, Miss Sturgeon refused to repeat her previous assertion that there had not been a…

A comment made by Gov. Ron DeSantis during a private Republican Party of Florida event at the Florida Governor’s Mansion has activists across the state abuzz with hope for change they’ve been requesting for more than a year. “We are going to work to hold these manufacturers accountable for this mRNA because they said there was no side effect. And we know that there have been. A lot,” DeSantis said at the Dec. 3 event in Tallahassee. “And so we did a study in Florida and we saw an 86 percent increase in [problems in] cardiac-related activity from people 18…

Bari Weiss, founder and editor of The Free Press, released the second volume of the so-called “Twitter files” on Thursday, revealing the social media platform’s “secret blacklists.” Weiss has been working with Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk and independent journalist Matt Taibbi to disclose internal Twitter information regarding censorship. Twitter’s censorship methods, according to Weiss, included placing specific users on a “Trends Blacklist” or a “Search Blacklist.” The popular Libs of TikTok account, as well as Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, professor of medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine, are among the users who were secretly added to the “Trends Blacklist” by the company.…

The chancellor has announced plans to reform and repeal a number of City regulations, including rules originally meant to protect the UK from another financial crisis, in order to “unlock” investment and “turbocharge” growth across the UK. Jeremy Hunt’s package of more than 30 reforms was announced as he travelled to Edinburgh to meet a group of chief executives from banks and insurers, who the government hopes will be in a stronger position to grow and compete with international peers as a result of the deregulation drive. The package, known as the Edinburgh Reforms, is wide-ranging, spanning from plans to consult on…