Radiohead have announced their first tour in seven years, after teasing it with a series of mysterious flyers that appeared in cities across Europe.
The revered band will play four nights at London’s O2 Arena on 21, 22, 24 and 25 November 2025, with other dates in Berlin, Bologna, Copenhagen and Madrid.
“After a seven year pause, it felt really good to play the songs again and reconnect with a musical identity that has become lodged deep inside all five of us,” he continued.
“It also made us want to play some shows together, so we hope you can make it to one of the upcoming dates.”
The five-city European tour is all there is for now, he wrote, but added: “Who knows where this will all lead.”
Since then, frontman Thom Yorke and guitarist Jonny Greenwood have recorded and performed as side project The Smile.
The Smile cancelled some concerts in July 2024 when Jonny, also an Oscar-nominated film composer, became seriously ill from an infection that needed emergency hospital treatment, some of it in intensive care.
Among the other band members, Ed O’Brien has been working on the follow-up to his debut solo album, released in 2020 under the moniker EOB, while bassist Colin Greenwood – Jonny’s brother – has been playing with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds of late.
Last year, Colin confirmed that Radiohead – who formed as schoolmates in 1985 and went on to release nine studio albums – had rehearsed together again that summer. “And it was really fun, had a really good time,” he said in conversation with the Hay Festival Querétaro.
However, late last year, Yorke told Australian radio station Triple J he was not aware of any plans for a Radiohead live return any time soon, regardless of the demand from fans.
“No offence to anyone and, er, thanks for caring,” he said. “But I think we’ve earned the right to do what makes sense to us without having to explain ourselves or be answerable to anyone else’s historical idea of what we should be doing.”
In March this year, though, keen-eyed Radiohead fans noticed they registered a new limited liability partnership (LLP) labelled RHEUK25, with all five members listed as officers.
They then gave four tickets to a “Radiohead concert of your choice” to a Los Angeles fire relief auction run by Palisades High School, suggesting gigs were on the horizon.
Their 2003 album Hail to the Thief was this year remixed with William Shakespeare’s Hamlet for stage shows in Manchester and Stratford-upon-Avon.
And last week, their track Let Down – taken from their acclaimed 1997 album OK Computer – entered the US Billboard chart 28 years after its release, having gone viral on TikTok.
Registration for tickets for their new tour will open at Radiohead.com on Friday 5 September at 10:00 BST.
The airline has introduced a fold-away barrier that can prevent fliers from entering the front galley adjoining the flight deck if a pilot needs to open the cockpit. Flight attendants will be required to deploy the barrier when a pilot exits the cockpit for bathroom use or other matters.
The company completed its first flight with the secondary barrier Aug. 29.
“This requirement actually goes all the way back to Sept. 11,” said Justin Jones, Southwest Airlines’ executive vice president of operations. “Following that event, it was always looking for a path to make the flight deck more secure.”
Southwest acknowledged that it is one of the first U.S. carriers to implement the new barrier onboard. The airline’s previous protocol mandated that flight attendants stand and face the cabin while a beverage cart was used to block passengers from coming towards the galley. The development comes two years after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced it would require the barriers on all new commercial airplanes. The initial requirement was set to begin last month, but the FAA has changed course and extended its deadline to outfit new aircraft by 2026.
Southwest anticipates having over 25 aircraft fitted with the device in service by the end of 2025.
The airline will also soon require travelers who don’t fit within the armrests of their seat to pay for an extra one in advance early next year.
Azets has completed the acquisition of Ensors, a chartered accountancy practice in East Anglia, UK.
The financial specifics of the transaction have not been made public.
Ensors, which has been operating for more than 130 years, has a workforce of more than 300 employees across its offices in Bury St Edmunds, Cambridge, Huntingdon, Ipswich, Norwich and Saxmundham.
It offers a variety of services including audit, tax, corporate finance, business recovery and forensic accounting.
This acquisition allows Azets to enter a new market within the UK and establishes a regional platform for future growth.
Ensors’ clients will continue receiving the same level of service from familiar teams, Azets said in a press statement.
David Scrivener will lead the new regional leadership team as regional managing director for East.
Scrivener said: “This is a proud and exciting moment for Ensors. We have built a strong and trusted business by focusing on our people, our clients and our communities.
“Joining Azets marks the next phase of our growth, enabling us to offer even more to the clients we serve and the people we employ.
“We have found a like-minded partner in Azets – one that shares our values, our ambition and our commitment to delivering high-quality, personalised advice. We look forward to what we can achieve together.”
Ensors will maintain its current branding, with the designation ‘part of Azets’ for approximately 12 months as the integration process unfolds.
The acquisition is expected to facilitate investment in personnel, technology and infrastructure, thereby creating opportunities for staff development and improving client service in the region.
Azets UK CEO Peter Gallanagh said: “We are thrilled to welcome Ensors to Azets. The firm has an outstanding reputation in East Anglia, a talented team and a strong track record of growth.
“This marks an important milestone as we expand into a new region of the UK and we are excited about the opportunities it creates for our clients and our people.
“Culturally and strategically, the fit is excellent and together, we are well placed to invest, grow and build on the success of both firms.”
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A theft charge against a man who was accused of stealing flowers from tributes left to Ozzy Osbourne in Birmingham city centre has been dropped.
The charge against Parviz Jafari was withdrawn by prosecutors after a court was told a security guard had granted the 45-year-old permission to take the flowers.
Mr Jafari, from West Bromwich, spoke only to give his personal details during a four-minute hearing at Birmingham Magistrates’ Court, where he was told he was free to go.
He was charged in August following reports of a theft among thousands of tributes left near the Black Sabbath bench and mural following Osbourne’s death on 22 July aged 76 from a reported heart attack.
The court was told a review by the Crown Prosecution Service found there was no realistic prospect of conviction, because it could not be proved the defendant had been dishonest when he took the flowers.
District Judge Wain told MrJafari: “Please stand, sir. The matter having been withdrawn, you are free to go.”
The floral tributes had been left in Broad Street, Birmingham, mainly at the site of the Black Sabbath Bridge, after Osbourne’s death.
Osbourne, along with bandmates Geezer Butler, Bill Ward and Tony Iommi, were credited was being pioneers of heavy metal music.
He died less than three weeks after he and Black Sabbath had played a farewell concert for 40,000 fans at Villa Park football ground.
The Back to the Beginning gig had featured a host of bands with Metallica, Pantera and Steven Tyler of Aerosmith taking part and raised thousands of pounds for charity.
The day before a private funeral Osbourne’s family organised for a public procession to go through his home city, stopping at the bridge where they added pink roses to the tributes.
The procession, watch by thousands of fans both at the scene and online, was led by a brass band playing Black Sabbath songs, with his body transported in a hearse topped by a purple floral tribute in the shape of a cross.
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People sometimes ask me whether I see any guardrails between President Trump and the dictatorship he has foreshadowed. With a docile Supreme Court and a cowering Congress, it is hard to see any.
At a Cabinet meeting last week, Trump said, “The line is that I’m a dictator, but I stop crime. So, a lot of people say, ‘You know, if that’s the case, I’d rather have a dictator.’”
Trump is seeking to solidify autocratic power by declaring spurious emergencies and falsely insisting that the country, despite the statistics, is wallowing in crime — and that he and he alone can solve the problem.
Posters of a person throwing a sandwich are pictured along H Street, Aug. 17, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
In seizing on the crime issue, Trump obviously wants to divert attention from the soft spots in his administration, such as the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, the wholesale firing of able personnel, rising prices created by his draconian tariffs and his failure to make peace in Ukraine.
Trump declared a crime emergency last month, deploying federal law enforcement agents and even 2,200 National Guard troops to supplement Washington’s 3,100-member police force and assist with immigration enforcement. The Guard’s questionable mission appears to include helping the National Park Service with trash removal and groundskeeping. A federal judge just held that his deployment of the Guard in Los Angeles was a violation of the Posse Comitatus Act, prohibiting use of the military for law enforcement purposes.
More than 1,000 arrests have followed in D.C., according to the White House. But are they good arrests?
The surge of federal muscle in D.C. is finding pushback in the city’s federal courts, where judges have admonished prosecutors for violating defendants’ rights and court rules, and grand juries have repeatedly refused to issue indictments.
For example, a federal magistrate judge said that an arrest in Northeast Washington had been preceded by the “most illegal search I’ve seen in my life” and that another arrest lacked “basic human dignity.”
D.C.’s top federal prosecutor, Jeanine Pirro, at Trump’s behest, ordered her prosecutors to throw the book at anyone arrested on criminal charges. But government lawyers recently came up empty-handed in a dubious assault case involving trivial scratches on the knuckle of a federal agent, with prosecutors failing to indict not once but three times.
Another grand jury refused to indict the now-famous “Sandwich Man.” Pirro came up empty-handed last week in the case of Sean C. Dunn, a former Department of Justice paralegal, whom she sought to send away for eight years for throwing a sandwich at an ICE agent on the streets of Washington. Dunn allegedly stood within inches of the officer, calling him and his colleagues “fascists” and shouting, “I don’t want you in my city!”
Grand juries have long been criticized as putty in the hands of the prosecutor. It is accepted as a truism among criminal lawyers that a grand jury would indict a ham sandwich if a U.S. attorney asked them to. Pirro’s prosecutors may be able to indict a sandwich, but they can’t seem to indict someone for throwing one.
Of course, Pirro is free to present her failed cases again to still another grand jury, but that may be politically difficult. “Runaway” grand jurors refuse to issue an indictment only in rare cases. The law requires them to find only probable cause that a crime was committed, the lowest evidentiary bar known to the law. But instances of “no true bills” (refusals to indict) have begun to proliferate since Trump took office. Grand jurors in Los Angeles have reportedly refused to indict people arrested for protesting the administration’s immigration enforcement actions.
And grand juries are only the first layer of guardrails in the criminal justice system, where they are followed by trial juries, and trial and appellate judges.
America inherited the grand jury system from England, which abolished the procedure in 1933. We can’t readily follow suit, since the Grand Jury Clause of the Fifth Amendment requires in the federal system a grand jury indictment for a “capital, or otherwise infamous crime.” The argument for the grand jury, typically consisting of 23 citizens drawn from the community, is that it breathes the “conscience of the community” into the accusatory process.
“It goes back centuries here,” explains my friend Joshua Rozenberg, a London-based legal analyst. “In medieval times, it was drawn from the local neighborhood. And these were men who were expected to look around and report criminal behavior within the community. They’re people who actually knew the offenders, as we’d call them today, and could perhaps bring them to justice.”
Defense counsel is not present during grand jury proceedings, and the grand jury relies solely on information fed to them by the prosecutor.
What we are seeing around the country is a form of jury nullification, a brake on executive overreach. Jury nullification occurs when a grand or petit jury acquits a defendant despite believing he technically broke the law, often because the jurors disagree with the law’s fairness, morality or application in a particular case.
While not a legally sanctioned right and generally not encouraged by judges, triers of the fact can exercise this power by returning, in the case of a petit jury, a “not guilty” verdict, which cannot be overturned. This action serves as a check on the legal system, allowing juries to express moral disagreement with the law if they believe it unjust, discriminatory or overly harsh. Sometimes, a jury might feel the law, though valid in general, is misapplied or results in an unjust outcome for the defendant.
Jury nullification was prevalent during the pre-Civil War period. A classic example would be the acquittal of abolitionist defendants who aided escaped slaves.
A judge I knew acquitted, after a bench trial, two priests who had violated an injunction by protesting too close to an abortion clinic. The facts and the law were incontestable, and the Catholic judge was the target of significant criticism. But the acquittal stuck.
Jury nullification is an important check on government abuse of power. Today, it may be one of the few guardrails on democracy remaining in our legal system.
James D. Zirin, author and legal analyst, is a former federal prosecutor in New York’s Southern District. He is also the host of the public television talk show and podcast Conversations with Jim Zirin.
(Reuters) -Teck Resources late on Tuesday said it would defer approving major growth projects until its Quebrada Blanca Phase 2 (QB2) copper mine in Chile achieves steady operations and target output, as part of a companywide operations review.
The Canadian copper miner said that it began the review process in August to improve performance across the company, which it expects to conclude by October, with an updated forecast by its third-quarter results.
“We expect a negative reaction to Teck’s operations review and management changes, as while these changes could ultimately lead to better operational performance, they create uncertainty until the October guidance update”, said RBC Capital Market analysts in a note.
The company also appointed senior vice presidents of operations for Latin America and North America, who will report to CEO Jonathan Price.
The QB2 mine, located in Chile’s northern Tarapaca Region, is 60% indirectly owned by Teck.
(Reporting by Sumit Saha in Bengaluru; Editing by Vijay Kishore)
The head of the Metropolitan Police has called on the government to “change or clarify” the law following the arrest of comedian Graham Linehan over posts he made online.
The 50-year-old was arrested under the Public Order Act on Monday on suspicion of inciting violence in relation to posts about trans people on X.
On Wednesday, Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley defended the officers involved, but said he recognised “concern caused by such incidents given differing perspectives on the balance between free speech and the risks of inciting violence in the real world”.
Sir Keir Starmer said the police must “focus on the most serious issues” when asked in the Commons about the arrest.
His arrest has prompted a backlash from some public figures and politicians, who have said it raises questions about free speech in the UK.
Linehan has said his arrest at Heathrow was related to three posts on X from April.
The first post called it a “violent, abusive act” for a trans-identified male to be in a female-only space. He wrote: “Make a scene, call the cops and if all else fails punch him in the balls.”
Linehan has been bailed under investigation and has not been charged with an offence.
In his statement on Wednesday, Sir Mark said the decision to arrest Linehan “was made within existing legislation – which dictates that a threat to punch someone from a protected group could be an offence”.
Sir Mark said his officers “had reasonable grounds to believe an offence had been committed,” but that police more broadly had “been left between a rock and a hard place” when investigating online speech.
He continued: “I don’t believe we should be policing toxic culture wars debates and officers are currently in an impossible position.”
Sir Mark said police will have to “make similar decisions in future unless the law and guidance is changed or clarified”.
He said he hopes this happens “without delay”, but said the Met would be taking immediate action to update how it decides which cases warrant a police investigation.
Sir Mark said: “As an immediate way of protecting our officers from the situation we find ourselves in today, we will be putting in place a more stringent triaging process to make sure only the most serious cases are taken forward in future – where there is a clear risk of harm or disorder.”
In an online article recounting his arrest, Linehan, 57, said he was detained by five armed officers who were waiting for him at Heathrow Airport, where he was returning to from the US.
He said he was taken into custody for questioning and later escorted to hospital after a health check revealed he was suffering from high blood pressure levels.
Lawmakers are settling back in on Capitol Hill as they stare down a hefty legislative agenda and a looming government shutdown.
Business on the docket includes efforts to release files related to the Jeffrey Epstein case, as well as fraught funding negotiations amid President Trump’s move to claw back funding through a pocket recession.
Reps. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) will hold a press conference Wednesday morning about their bill seeking to release more Epstein files. The duo will be joined by survivors of the convicted sex offender after several lawmakers met with them Tuesday.
On Tuesday evening, the House Oversight Committee released files from the Justice Department. Most of the documents, including video, audio and court filings, had already been made public.
And overnight, an appeals court delivered a blow to the Trump administration after it ruled the federal government cannot invoke a wartime law to swiftly deport Venezuelans. This is a key legal tool Trump officials have used to implement the president’s sweeping immigration crackdown.
Federal funding also runs out on Sept. 30, requiring Congress to hammer out a stopgap measure. But this is easier said than done amid divisions over what this funding measure would look like and Democrats’ anger with the president and Republicans’ agenda.
Meanwhile, President Trump is slated to meet with Poland’s President Andrzej Duda at the White House later Wednesday morning.
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Topshop will return to the High Street, five years after it closed all of its UK stores.
The brand is going to be available in 32 John Lewis shops from February 2026, while its menswear brand Topman will be available in six stores.
The chain disappeared after the collapse of Sir Philip Green’s retail empire, which owned Topshop as well as Burton and Dorothy Perkins.
The Topshop brand was bought by the online retailer Asos, which sold its majority stake last September to the Danish retail tycoon Anders Holch Povlsen and is now in the midst of a major comeback.
Asos currently sells Topshop and Topman products on its website and a standalone Topshop site was recently relaunched, but it was unclear if the brand would ever reappear on the High Street again until recently.
“Customers absolutely want to see us back in stores and we want to bring that nationwide,” said Michelle Wilson, managing director of Topshop and Topman.
The new Topshop spring collection will feature 120 pieces, curated by John Lewis.
The brand will be given a “prime” position in stores, according to Peter Ruis, Managing Director at John Lewis.
He said he hopes the partnering with the iconic brand will bring new customers through the department store’s doors, and believes people will be queueing to get in when range is launched.
“I think the best fashion brands are multi-generational. The brilliance of Topshop is it is so affordable,” he said.
The upmarket store Liberty London in Soho recently started to sell a small Topshop collection.
But the tie up with John Lewis is the first nationwide partnership for the brand, and the fashion retailer, which had its heyday in the 2000s and 2010s, wants to introduce some standalone stores in future.
Topshop struggled during the covid-19 pandemic, when it had to close its physical stores, but it had been having problems for several years.
It failed to keep up with changing shopping habits among its key demographic – teenagers and young adults – primarily the rise of online shopping.
And as its core customers aged out of its products, it struggled to replace them with new shoppers or adapt its products to its old base’s tastes.
Graham Soult, a retail consultant, said the partnership between John Lewis and Topshop was “a canny move for both brands”.
“If you’re Topshop, you’ve got a customer base who have a real affection for the brand,” he said. And for John Lewis, “it gets the name out there in a positive way” and draws in new customers.
“Maybe this will be a template for how you bring back an iconic name.”
