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Robert Jenrick Mocks Liz Truss In Brutal Tory Conference Jibe At Former Party Leader

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Robert Jenrick mocked former prime minister Liz Truss with a brutal jibe at the Tory Party conference.

In his keynote speech at the Tory conference in Manchester, Jenrick joked about her ongoing unpopularity with voters.

Truss lasted just 49 days in Downing Street after her mini-Budget crashed the economy and sent mortgage rates soaring.

Jenrick drew a comparison between his party’s former leader and two Tories who were quickly booted out of the Big Brother house.

He said: ”[Former Conservative MP] Sir Michael Fabricant went on the Big Brother house. He lasted four days.

“Last week, one of our party’s most energetic campaigners, Emily Hewertson, entered the Big Brother house. She lasted 11 hours. She didn’t even get to spend the night.

“And now I’ve heard that a third Tory blonde is in negotiations to enter the Big Brother house – Liz Truss. But the negotiations have broken down. She’s asking to be paid by the minute.”

As the audience laughed at their former leader’s expense, Jenrick said: “Too soon, perhaps. Too soon.”

His jibe came after he told the conference earlier this week that the mini-Budget had been “cack-handed and un-conservative”.

“There were big mistakes from that period,” Jenrick said. “We have to be honest about that, and in doing so, we can begin to rebuild the public’s trust.”

Truss hit back on X: “Rob is a self-styled critic of the Blairite establishment but has completely failed to take on their false narrative about 2022 or mention the role of the Bank of England.

“Until the Conservative Party is honest about what happened in 2022, they are destined to remain at 16 per cent in the polls.”

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4 Symptoms A Cardiologist Would Never, Ever Ignore

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Though you might think extreme fatigue, regular headaches, and even unintentional weight loss are nothing out of the ordinary, both a GP and a cancer doctor have previously told HuffPost UK they could signal deeper health issues.

They can reveal everything from anaemia to more serious conditions. The key is to get them checked out to be on the safe side, the experts advised.

And now, cardiologist and scientist Dr Ernst von Schwarz has shared the four signs he’d always see a doctor about, no matter how innocuous you might believe them to be.

These are:

1) Pressure in your chest

“Chest pressure or pain is always suspicious of a lack of oxygen in the heart,” the doctor told us.

Per the NHS, sudden pressure, “squeezing”, or even burning sensations in your chest are worth calling 999 over as they could be a sign of a heart attack.

Even if the pressure or pain comes and goes rather than arriving suddenly, you should still speak to your GP.

2) Shortness of breath when you’re not being active

It’s normal for your breathing to get a little heavy after a jog or in your spin class. But if your breath is laboured when you’re sitting down or doing minimal movement, Dr von Schwartz said that could be a red flag.

“Shortness of breath can have a multitude of causes, from heart failure to ischemia to pulmonary issues such as asthma, COPD or pneumonia, vascular issues such as pulmonary emboli, [or] intoxication, anxiety, and panic attacks, among others,” he shared.

3) Fainting

This is always worth getting checked out, the cardiologist told us.

Also known as “syncopes”, fainting can be caused by a sudden drop in blood pressure, especially in young women, he said.

It can also be “a result of orthostatic dysregulation [low blood pressure after going from sitting or lying down to standing], as in POTS, or [a] lack of oxygen in the brain caused by very low or very high heart rates”.

The NHS said that though it’s likely not serious, you should always see a GP if you’ve fainted.

4) Palpitations lasting longer than five seconds

Palpitations make your heartbeat feel more noticeable. They can present as a “racing,” “thumping,” “fluttering,” or an irregular heartbeat.

Per the NHS, these can last seconds or minutes. But Dr von Schwartz said he’d see a GP if they pass the five-second mark.

That’s because “palpitations can be caused by harmless extra beats or short atrial runs, but also by potential life-threatening ventricular tachycardia,” he said.

Definitely see your doctor if palpitations keep coming back, if they last longer than a few minutes, or if you have a heart condition or a family history of heart conditions.

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Eurovision 2026: German Leader Supports Boycott If Israel Is Not Allowed To Compete

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The chancellor of Germany has said he would support the country boycotting next year’s Eurovision Song Contest if Israel is banned from competing.

After controversy has blighted Eurovision for the last few years due to Israel’s continued participation despite the ongoing conflict in Gaza, a vote is due to take place among competing national broadcasters in December, to determine whether Israel is permitted to return.

Several countries have now said they will pull out of Eurovision unless Israel is banned, but during a new interview, chancellor Friedrich Merz made it clear he supports the opposite view.

Asked by German broadcaster ARD if he’d back calls to boycott Eurovision in the event that Israel is not allowed to return, Merz responded: “I would support this. I think it’s a scandal that this is even being discussed. Israel has a place there.”

It’s worth pointing out that Germany is one of Eurovision’s “Big Five” countries, meaning they contribute the most financially, and are therefore allowed to pass straight through to the final each year without taking part in earlier stages of the contest.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz

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The other countries in the “Big Five” are the UK, France, Italy and Spain, the latter of which has already said it will not return to Eurovision in 2026 if Israel is allowed to compete again.

Official discussions among competing Eurovision broadcasters about Israel’s involvement were first held over the summer, though no consensus was reached at that time.

Around this period, it was reported by Israel’s N12 News that the national broadcasters for Germany and Italy had threatened to pull out of Eurovision if Israel is not permitted to return to the event in 2026.

Responding to these rumours, a spokesperson from Germany’s Südwestrundfunk (SWR) told HuffPost UK in July: “The Eurovision Song Contest is a major musical event that has brought people across Europe and beyond together for decades – diverse and respectful, regardless of origin, religion, or belief.

“The ESC is a music competition organised by EBU broadcasters, not governments. The Israeli broadcaster KAN adheres to applicable regulations and has been an integral part of the music competition for more than 60 years. We affirm their membership and the core values of the ESC.”

Germany’s culture minister Wolfram Weimer previously issued a statement of his own condemning calls to boycott the event next year should Israel remain part of it.

“Eurovision was founded to bring nations together through music. Excluding Israel today goes against this fundamental idea and turns a celebration of understanding between peoples into a tribunal,” he said in a statement.

“It’s precisely because Eurovision was born on the ruins of war that it should not become a scene of exclusion. Eurovision is based on the principle that artists are judged on their art and not on their nationality. The culture of cancellation is not the solution — the solution is diversity and cohesion.”

Austrian singer JJ is the reigning Eurovision Song Contest champion, with next year's event due to take place in Vienna following his win
Austrian singer JJ is the reigning Eurovision Song Contest champion, with next year’s event due to take place in Vienna following his win

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A Eurovision spokesperson previously told HuffPost UK: “We understand the concerns and deeply held views around the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. We are still consulting with all EBU Members to gather views on how we manage participation and geopolitical tensions around the Song Contest.

“Broadcasters have until mid-December to confirm if they wish to take part in next year’s event in Vienna. It is up to each Member to decide if they want to take part in the Contest and we would respect any decision broadcasters make.”

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People Are Just Realising Button Mushrooms Are The ‘Wrong Colour’, And I Had No Idea

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I’m surprised by a lot of seemingly ordinary facts, like why sleeve buttons exist and what the “most complex” word in the English language is considered to be.

So you’d best believe I’m a regular peruser of Reddit’s r/todayilearned (TIL), where netizens share the mildly interesting scraps of trivia they, well… learned, today.

For site user u/amateurfunk, a recent example involved the colour of button mushrooms (also known as “champignon mushrooms”).

“TIL that champignon mushrooms were originally all light brown in colour,” they wrote.

But is that true?

Why are button mushrooms white?

According to the Mycological Society of San Francisco (MSSF), yup, the common mushroom (sometimes called a “white button” variety) actually used to be brown.

The species was first grown on horse manure in 18th-century France, the MSSF explained.

It is still often grown this way because the species thrives in nitrogen-rich environments (oh!).

But in 1926, the MSSF continued, “a Pennsylvania mushroom farmer found a clump of [button mushrooms] with white caps in his mushroom bed”.

They then bred the mutates species, and now, “most of the cream-coloured store mushrooms we see today are products of this chance observation”.

And here’s a fact that shook me: button, cremini, and portobello mushrooms are actually just the same species of fungi at different stages of development.

This species, Agaricus bisporum, increases in flavour and deepens in colour as it ages. Button is the mildest and palest variety: its very subtle taste may have made it the most popular kind on our shelves.

People were as surprised as I was to learn the info

Replying to the original post, Redditor u/diabloman8890 joked that the pale, creamy version we’re all used to counts as “Teenage mutant inbred mushrooms”.

“One mutation in 192[6] and now it’s the default, nature’s marketing win,” u/bebleich marvelled.

But u/Preeng was a little less impressed, commenting: “And nothing new since then? Not a blue one or a red one? Lame.”

Ultimately, though, as u/DConstructed pointed out, ”[Once] you cook them, they’re all brown anyway.”

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Tilly The ‘AI Actor’ Is Fake, But Her Potential To Harm Women Is Real

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There’s a new Hollywood newcomer who already has a long list of haters: Tilly Norwood, the AI-generated “actor”.

Dutch comedian Eline Van der Velden, the head of AI production studio Particle6, which developed Tilly, said she wants the AI character to be the next Scarlett Johansson.

But not if the rest of Hollywood has its way.

After Van der Velden announced what she calls “the world’s first artificial intelligence talent studio” at a film festival and said Tilly had talent agents hoping to sign her, this news of potential representation sparked widespread Hollywood backlash.

Multiple actors’ unions have released statements condemning Tilly. Actors have also accused Tilly’s makers of stealing real people’s images to make the AI-generated character.

“And what about the hundreds of living young women whose faces were composited together to make her?” actor Mara Wilson posted on social media. One Nashville-based musician even claims that Tilly is her doppelganger.

The company behind Tilly denies that the character was created with stolen images.

“Tilly was developed entirely from scratch using original creative design,” Particle6 said in a statement to HuffPost. “We do not and will not use any person or performer’s likeness without explicit consent and fair compensation.”

After outcry, Van der Velden said Tilly was “not a replacement for a human being, but a creative work – a piece of art” in a social media statement.

But no matter how original or creative you believe Tilly to be, she is definitely drawing from tired old tropes about women and raising unsettling implications for real working people, AI experts caution. Here’s what you need to know.

Tilly reinforces more of the same tired beauty standards for women

Tilly Norwood is not real, but the AI character is causing a real debate over how women's images get used. Above are images from Tilly's Instagram account.
Tilly Norwood is not real, but the AI character is causing a real debate over how women’s images get used. Above are images from Tilly’s Instagram account.

For one, Tilly replicates a narrow idea of what generative AI thinks a woman should look like.

In a Washington Post investigation of three of the leading AI image tools, the Post found that generative AI thinks beautiful women should look thin, young and white – which is exactly how Tilly looks.

Particle6 did not answer HuffPost’s questions about Tilly’s appearance.

What we see on social media – including the accounts set up for Tilly on TikTok, Facebook and Instagram – might have long-term effects on how people view their own real bodies.

Safiya Noble, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the author of the book Algorithms of Oppression, said Tilly is a continuation of the kind of distortions that social media photo filters cause people.

“Those distortions, even though they are seemingly unreal, they circulate so much in our culture that then are celebrated and … liked and hearted,” Noble said. “And that certainly has a psychological and emotional toll on us.“

A 2022 study on Instagram found that browsing how other people looked on the popular social media platform was linked to “detrimental outcomes” around body dissatisfaction in young women.

Tilly’s obedience might be the most unsettling part about “her”

Above all, Tilly reveals a lot about how corporations value women’s work.

Alexandra Mateescu, a researcher with Data & Society’s Labor Futures program, said what she found most interesting and unsettling about Tilly’s existence came from a line in a Particle6 video where she appears in her first role.

In an AI-generated comedy sketch from Particle6, Tilly gets cast to be in a TV show. A man then states, “She’ll do anything I say; I’m already in love.”

That line suggests “this vision of this feminine, docile, cute, young actress who won’t talk back or complain about working conditions or anything,” Mateescu said.

That’s why, for Mateescu, her biggest worry with Tilly is “more about these kinds of marketing exercises being used as a cudgel, particularly for actors at the bottom of film industry hierarchies, to discourage them from demanding better working conditions under this threat of potentially being replaced”.

Mateescu said she has seen this power dynamic in other creative industries, like modelling. She recently co-authored a paper on how generative AI is making it easier for companies to use a model’s image and measurements and alter them without a model’s knowledge or compensation.

In her research, “people at the top of the industry, both photographers and top models, they could view AI as this creative tool in their arsenal to be able to enhance their creative practices,” Mateescu said. But struggling models doing profit-driven e-commerce catalogs were more negatively impacted. “And I think that’s sort of the same pattern we see across industries.”

In this sense, Tilly might represent a bigger existential threat to vulnerable, newer actors who do not have the same power and networks as A-list stars.

In Noble’s view, Tilly’s existence normalises “controlling women’s images” and the idea that it’s OK to “make women do what we want them to do. That culture is prevalent all around us”.

Avoiding “AI personhood” might be the best way to deal with Tilly

Tilly is not real, but it’s normal if you’re confused over what to call her. That might be by design.

Noble pointed to the character saying, “I may be AI generated, but I’m feeling very real emotions right now” in a post appearing on her Facebook page as an example of the kind of misrepresentation this AI-generated actor perpetuates.

“The more kind of anthropomorphised they are, the more misleading and deceptive they are to the public,” Noble said. “This is why these technologies are so incredibly dangerous.”

One way to resist is to be more careful about how you talk about AI-generated projects like Tilly.

Instead of seeing Tilly as an “actor,” as her profile describes her, or as the next Scarlett Johansson, as her creator hopes her to be, experts suggest you should see her for what she really is – a marketing product.

That’s why Noble suggests against calling Tilly art and instead categorising Tilly as the latest example of low-quality, spam-like “AI slop”.

And try to avoid referring to Tilly as an actor. “We should call it ‘it,’” Noble said. “We should talk about it like a machine learning model.”

“The notion of AI personhood is a marketing exercise and a legal manoeuvre that I don’t think we should buy into,” Matreescu said. “Tilly is not an actress any more than, like, Sid the sloth from the ‘Ice Age’ movies is an actor. It’s just a digital likeness.”

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Humiliating Photos Reveal Terrible Turnout For Key Speeches At Tory Conference

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The number of delegates attending key events at the Conservative Party conference seems to be depressingly low, judging by photos of the main hall.

It’s the party’s first annual gathering since Kemi Badenoch won the leadership contest last November and the atmosphere appears to be particularly flat.

While it’s not too surprising – considering the Tories’ historic loss at the 2024 general election and how they are currently polling at just 16% according to YouGov – it’s a bleak reminder of just how much has changed for the party who were in government only 15 months ago.

Sky News’ Amanda Akass noted that it was “not exactly a packed hall” for the shadow chancellor Mel Stride’s speech today – and attached a photo of a room which appeared to be about two-thirds empty.

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Tory Conference.

This is how far they’ve fallen.

Mel Strides speech as Shadow Chancellor should have been packed.

The reality is.

There were more people in Gala Bingo just around the corner. pic.twitter.com/w1kNBBAAuu

— Goosey (@Goosey30111568) October 6, 2025

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Tory Conference.

This is how far they’ve fallen.

Mel Strides speech as Shadow Chancellor should have been packed.

The reality is.

There were more people in Gala Bingo just around the corner. pic.twitter.com/w1kNBBAAuu

— Goosey (@Goosey30111568) October 6, 2025

GB News also said it was the “quietest” Tory conference seen in the last nine years in an interview with Stride – although he tried to pass this year’s gathering off as a “turning point” for the party.

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‘The atmosphere is quite flat.’

‘I think it is a turning point.’

Ellie Costello asks the Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride, whether the poor attendance at the Conservative Party conference is a sign that the Tories are ‘dying’.

📺 Freeview 236, Sky 512, Virgin 604 pic.twitter.com/kT2UpWeHSk

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‘The atmosphere is quite flat.’

‘I think it is a turning point.’

Ellie Costello asks the Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride, whether the poor attendance at the Conservative Party conference is a sign that the Tories are ‘dying’.

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