Month: February 2024

The FT’s main story reports that a “bumper earnings report” from chipmaker Nvidia has sparked a global stock market rally, with the company’s shares surging 15% in early trading, adding £205bn ($260bn) to its value in the process.

The Independent leads on Sir Keir Starmer’s denial that he pressured the Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle to help him avoid Gaza vote rebellion. The paper notes the Tories are plotting to oust the Speaker over the chaos they claim is ‘Labour bias’ – and so far 67 MPs have submitted letters of no confidence.

The front page of the Guardian reports on a study which suggests that visiting the same doctor every time you go to your GP improves patients’ health and also reduces doctors’ workloads.

The Metro counts the cost of Russia’s war on Ukraine as the second anniversary of the conflict approaches, describing it as “two years of lunacy”. The paper refers to “tyrant” Vladimir Putin’s campaign in Ukraine, which the paper says has killed at least 10,000 Ukrainians.

The Daily Express says the Metropolitan Police has been accused of “normalising aggressive and offensive acts” after a pro-Palestine slogan was beamed onto Big Ben. The paper describes the contentious slogan as genocidal. Scotland Yard said it was not a criminal offence.

The Sun’s front page features pop star Ellie Goulding, pictured in Costa Rica with a man said to be her surfing instructor. The paper suggests the singer is in a new relationship with a ‘surf hunk’ claiming ‘wedding rings are off’ and her ‘hunny remains in the UK.’

The Daily Mirror leads on a pensioner jailed for smuggling £1m worth of cocaine on a cruise ship has told of his regrets after breaking his silence for the first time. The paper says he refuses to admit guilt and instead is demanding compensation for ‘human rights breaches.’

No one single story dominates Friday’s front pages, instead, a mix of domestic and international topics find space on the front splashes. However, most papers continue their coverage of Wednesday’s Commons chaos, as it emerged the Speaker of the House bent the rules due in part to fears over the safely of MPs. 

A private US company – Intuitive Machines – has made history by becoming the first commercial outfit to put a spacecraft on the Moon. “What we can confirm, without a doubt, is our equipment is on the surface of the Moon and we are transmitting,” flight director Tim Crain announced.

Five students have been wounded in an apparent knife attack at a school in the western German city of Wuppertal. According to a teacher, the pupils were attacked with a knife and a pair of scissors, German media reported.