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If your playlist is starting to feel a little tired, here are the songs that have been getting the most love from us lately. It is a mix that stretches from pop heavyweights like Charli XCX and Lorde to rising stars such as NewJeans and Bree Runway, with plenty of surprises along the way. Charli XCX has continued her remarkable run with a new version of The Girl, So Confusing, this time joined by Lorde. The two artists lean into the rumours that Charli’s original lyrics were

A new artwork that transforms the sounds and stories of west London into a vast coded mural has been revealed near Park Royal in Ealing. The installation, titled 11 Million Dots, has been created by artist Rafael El Baz and now stretches across the six storey facade of a newly built data centre. Covering about two thousand seven hundred square metres, it is thought to be the largest artwork of its kind in the city. To create the piece, El Baz spent months collecting recording

Mikel Arteta says the encouragement Noni Madueke has received from Arsenal supporters has been the driving force behind the winger’s strong opening months at the club. Madueke made the move from Chelsea in the summer in a deal that could eventually exceed fifty million pounds. The transfer did not go down well with some sections of the fanbase at the time and more than five thousand people signed an online petition urging Arsenal to avoid bringing him in. Once he arrived at t

New figures from PSE Consulting suggest that artificial intelligence is becoming a routine part of life for many people across the United Kingdom. The study found that almost half of adults use AI in some form on a regular basis, and more than a fifth expect to use it to help with Black Friday and Christmas shopping this year. The highest levels of interest are found among people aged between eighteen and thirty four, many of whom live in large cities and earn above the natio

Rachel Reeves is facing accusations that she misrepresented the condition of the public finances in the weeks before the budget. Critics say she painted a far gloomier picture than the one presented to her privately by the Office for Budget Responsibility. A letter released by the OBR shows that by the middle of September it had already informed the chancellor that the twenty billion pound gap she had spoken about, which related to her own fiscal rule on day to day borrowing,