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Catch the latest Financial News EventsHilarity, unease and relief: games show China is not over the finish line in humanoid robot race
World Humanoid Robot Games showcased leaps Beijing has made in the tech, but also highlighted limitations as US rivals prepare their own launchesWith exploding pelvises, enough comic pratfalls for a Buster Keaton show reel and the odd moment of ruthless violence, the...
‘I don’t want to be a backseat driver’: Gordon Brown on Burnham, billionaires – and his vision for a better Britain
The former UK prime minister is still shaping politics (even if he doesn’t want to interfere). He talks about keeping his temper, staying fit – and why he won’t pay £90 for a Scotland football shirtIt’s a Monday in August and as England burns in dystopian heat, Gordon...
The battle over RAF Barnham: how ominous anti-asylum protests engulfed a small Norfolk town
Thetford has a welcoming history. So why have there been so many demonstrations this summer over plans to house asylum seekers at a nearby military base – as well as nights of violent disorder ?‘I don’t talk to mainstream media,” says a young man in an Arsenal shirt....
Charli xcx, Reading Festival review – Pretentious? Just a bit. But Nietzsche would have loved it
Reading FestivalThere’s not much time to dig into her deep catalogue of future-facing pop, but she satisfies the hardcore“Time itself is a circle,” as the rock’n’roll philosopher Nietzsche once said, accurately foreshadowing Charli xcx’s only UK festival appearance...