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Labour migrant deal ‘descending into farce’ as activists target detention centre | Politics | News

Labour migrant deal ‘descending into farce’ as activists target detention centre | Politics | News

Labour is battling to stop Channel migrant crossings (Image: Getty) Labour’s migrant deal with France is “descending into farce” after left-wing activists vowed to try and block a new deportation centre. Shabana Mahmood pledged to help Paris pay for the facility near Dunkirk so that deportations can be ramped up. But a French environmental group has claimed it does not comply with local planning rules. Flemish-Artois Coastal Environmental Defense Assembly has alleged the facility is located in an industrial zone where residential accommodation is not allowed under planning rules. And the group’s president, Nicolas Fournier, told the BBC the group was “still trying to hinder this process of building the detention centre with the appeal”. He said: “Putting so many resources solely into repression, with ever more police, doesn’t work. “So we really need to find other solutions, because we can’t continue to allow this risk of seeing people take to the sea in unacceptable, deplorable conditions that endanger them.” Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp told GB News: “The Government’s so-called deal is descending into …

Crypto Market Descending Into Chaos

Crypto Market Descending Into Chaos

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Since October of last year, the global crypto market has lost nearly $2 trillion in value. Much of that was driven by everybody’s favorite blockchain currency, Bitcoin, which fell from a high of over $126,000 in early October to below $63,000 in February. Bitcoin has since clawed back some of those losses, and has been hovering around the $70,000 mark over the last month, give or take a few thousand. While the crypto free-fall seems to have paused, the extreme price swings remain. Yet in our deranged modern world of microbets and prediction markets, even volatility itself can become a financial vehicle. Enter the five-minute crypto price prediction. Basically, prediction bettors can now wager on whether the price swings of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and XRP will end higher or lower than they did five minutes ago. On Polymarket’s tab for Bitcoin, a line graph crawls along like a seismograph, showing the price to beat as the total …

The Dark Is Descending by Chloe C. Peñaranda

The Dark Is Descending by Chloe C. Peñaranda

The conclusion to Chloe C. Peñaranda’s Nytefall trilogy arrives not with a whisper but with the cosmic force of colliding celestial bodies. The Dark Is Descending weaves together the intertwined fates of Astraea Lightborne, the star-maiden created by gods, and Rainyte “Nyte” Azreal Ashfyre, the vampire prince cursed with an entity of pure darkness. This final installment delivers an emotionally devastating yet ultimately triumphant exploration of what it means to choose love over destiny, sacrifice over self-preservation, and hope over despair. Following The Stars Are Dying and The Night Is Defying, Peñaranda’s series has built a devoted readership captivated by the forbidden romance between light and dark. The concluding volume faces the monumental task of resolving cosmic-scale conflicts while honoring the intimate character journeys that have defined the trilogy. The result is a bittersweet symphony that succeeds more often than it stumbles, though not without significant pacing challenges that occasionally dim its brilliance. A World Tearing at the Seams Peñaranda constructs a dying realm with visceral urgency. The opening chapters paint a landscape in crisis—meteors …