Burnham pledges early intervention and ‘benefits backstop’ to tackle youth jobs crisis
Posted on Sunday November 15, 2026

Prime minister promises ‘root-and-branch rethink’ of support for young people as Milburn report advises sweeping changes to some benefits

• Andy Burnham: The crisis facing Britain’s young people is politicians’ fault. To fix it, we need a generational response

Andy Burnham has pledged to intervene as early as childhood to tackle youth unemployment before a watershed review, promising “a root-and-branch rethink of how we support childhood in the modern world”.

Burnham said the government would intervene at all the stages of life in which young people fell behind, and “long before they find themselves out of work and reliant on the state”, including providing more opportunities for vocational training in schools.

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Poundland pins rescue hopes on Yorkshire Tea, Pot Noodle and Gloria Gaynor
Posted on Sunday November 15, 2026

Chain restocks stores in operation named after singer of I Will Survive, as US owners release some of withheld funds

Poundland’s under-fire US owners have released funds to help the stricken discount chain restock shelves temporarily, keeping hopes of a rescue deal alive in the run-up to crunch talks with the government.

In an emergency resupply effort codenamed “Operation Gloria” by senior Poundland staff, about 16m grocery items were dispatched to 600 shops in the UK and Ireland over the weekend.

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Troubled Scottish steel supplier raises questions over Royal Navy contracts
Posted on Sunday November 15, 2026

Liberty Steel Dalzell plant in Motherwell with order for 34,000 tonnes of metal plate to build three warships has struggled to pay bills

The Royal Navy is facing questions over whether three new warships will be built with British steel as its Scottish supplier faces deepening financial difficulties.

Liberty Steel Dalzell, a plate mill in Motherwell, has struggled to pay its bills and workers in recent weeks, according to several people with knowledge of operations.

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‘I’m scared about my future’: young people on the stress and desperation of jobseeking
Posted on Sunday November 15, 2026

In the second in our series, four young Britons reveal how the search has taken a toll on their mental and physical health

• ‘The social contract is broken’: young people on feeling shut out of careers

• Guardian to follow lives of eight young people in their search for jobs

“I had to quit and move back in with my parents because I had developed ME/chronic fatigue syndrome. I am now housebound and cannot look after myself. Although I cannot prove it, I strongly believe that prolonged period of high stress played a big part in the decline of my health.”

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‘Jensen Huang lost his mind’: how AI’s smartest man fell for the world’s oldest trick
Posted on Sunday November 15, 2026

Jensen Huang’s affair with a suspected spy is Silicon Valley’s worst nightmare come true

The resignation this week of Nvidia’s founder and CEO Jensen Huang is one of the most astonishing corporate scandals in memory, featuring allegations of international espionage and extramarital affairs involving one of the world’s most powerful men. As investigations mount into what went wrong at the $4tn chip company, the saga may also become a milestone in the decades-long history of spies infiltrating the US tech industry.

Huang admitted to being unfaithful to his wife of 41 years in a letter to employees this past weekend, following a report from the New York Times that the tech mogul had a close relationship with a woman US officials suspect of spying for China’s government. Huang resigned on Thursday after 33 years as CEO amid reports of two additional affairs with Nvidia employees, causing the world’s most valuable chip company’s stock to plummet.

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160 questions, only one wrong: top scorer in South Korea tax exam admits AI cheating
Posted on Sunday November 15, 2026

Fears for national college entrance exam next week as test taker admits sending photos of questions to AI tool

The marks attained by the top scorer ⁠on South Korea’s national exam for aspiring tax accountants this year seemed too good to be true. On Sunday, sceptics were ⁠proven right when he ⁠confessed to ​using generative AI to cheat.

The scandal has followed months of speculation after he scored near-perfect marks on hundreds of questions over two exams ⁠taken in April and July. It has also raised the stakes for organisers of South Korea’s annual college entrance exam this Thursday.

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England fend off fiery Spain fightback after Anderson’s red to top Nations League group
Posted on Sunday November 15, 2026

It was the game to show Thomas Tuchel where his rebooted England team had got to; surely the ultimate test in international football. Spain in Spain. A world champion team who, in Tuchel’s words, had “forgotten how to lose.” Before this Nations League group decider, they had been beaten only once in 43 matches – on penalties against Portugal in the final of this competition last year.

What England produced for 65 minutes was extraordinary. What followed was equally so for different reasons. When it was over, England had made the most sensational of statements. Back in 2018, on their previous visit to Spain, England won 3-2 in Seville in the Nations League; it was one of Sir Gareth Southgate’s most famous results, an ignition point. It was the same scoreline and the same feeling for Tuchel on Sunday night.

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Mirra Andreeva holds nerve against Svitolina to win WTA Finals for first time
Posted on Sunday November 15, 2026

• Andreeva seals 7-5, 6-3 victory to earn world No 2 ranking

• Russian dominates tournament without losing a set

Mirra Andreeva had put herself on the brink of securing another effortless, straightforward set in one of the biggest finals of her career when she momentarily balked. Serving for the first set at 5-4, Andreeva nervously opened the game with two dire double faults before spraying two further unforced errors to hand over the break.

There have already been many times in Andreeva’s young career when similar sequences triggered epic, dramatic collapses, so prone the 19-year-old has been to losing her composure when things do not go her way. This time, she betrayed no negative emotions at all. Andreeva immediately retrieved the break and regained her momentum as she marched to a monumental victory, defeating Elina Svitolina 7-5, 6-3 to win the WTA Finals at Indian Wells for the first time.

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