Planned Shein IPO needs closer scrutiny, says former Labour minister

A former minister has called on the government to closely scrutinise Shein for possible links to forced working as the China-founded fast-fashion retailer prepares for a stock market listing in London.Liam Byrne, the Labour MP who heads parliament’s business and trade committee, said the UK should introduce new legislation to increase scrutiny of supply chains that may include products made in the Xinjiang region of north-western China.China has detained up to a million of the Muslim minority Uyghur people in Xinjiang, and has allegedly subjected many to forced labour.Shein has risen rapidly to prominence around the world by exporting clothing directly from Chinese factories at very low prices, jumping on the latest trends and putting pressure on western fast-fashion brands.The Singapore-headquarted company plans to list on the London Stock Exchange at a £50bn valuation

Owner of Belfast shipyard that built Titanic to enter administration

Harland & Wolff, the owner of the Belfast shipyard that built the Titanic, is to enter into administration this week after failing to find new funding, in a blow to UK government hopes of shipbuilding in the city.The company said that it was insolvent and was expecting to appoint administrators from Teneo imminently.It said an unspecified number of redundancies at the listed holding company, Harland & Wolff Group, were inevitable, but that it was hopeful the companies operating its shipyards would be bought. Those core operations would “continue to trade as usual” for now, it added.In July the company said as many as 1,600 people were working across its businesses, which also included shipyards in Devon and Scotland, a proposed gas storage operation in Northern Ireland, and a now discontinued ferry service serving the Isles of Scilly

Musk says humans can be on Mars in four years. Many laugh, but some see purpose

Almost buried beneath a recent avalanche of rightwing invective posted by Elon Musk on the platform he owns, X, was one eye-popping statement that made space watchers sit up and take notice: an assertion that humans could land on Mars within four years and be living there in a self-sustaining city in 20.The Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. Learn more.It seemed a fanciful boast, even by the standards of the SpaceX founder and world’s richest man, who transformed the logistics and cost of shorter-duration, near-to-Earth orbit space travel with his fleet of reusable Falcon rockets

What’s so funny about getting an AI app to give you a roasting?

A friend recently shared a comment someone had made about her online. Sophie was a middle-aged, never-was influencer, in this stranger’s estimation, who exploited her children and alienated everyone she met. As I debated whether “liking” the post would read as support or broad agreement, I noticed a strange watermark. The vicious words had been generated not by a bitter stranger, but an AI roast app. My demented friend had asked for this

So … naming a stadium after Trevor Lawrence may have been a little premature

The Jaguars temporarily rebranded their home in honor of their quarterback. But it merely highlighted how he has fallen short of expectationsWhen airports, streets or buildings are named to honor an individual it is typically thanks to a long record of accomplishment. Perhaps the Jacksonville Jaguars were trying to manifest greatness by temporarily rebranding their stadium around Trevor Lawerence over the weekend, but it was a move destined to be ridiculed. There were few smiles at TrEverBank Stadium on Sunday (not the Jags’ first weird attempt at a rebrand of Lawrence) as a sloppy Jacksonville fell to the Cleveland Browns 18-13. They are now are in trouble at 0-2

Rahm case casts shadow over Ryder Cup as PGA Tour-LIV rupture still runs deep | Ewan Murray

Jon Rahm has made his second decision. Only time will tell if this proves more successful than his first. If not, Europe’s Ryder Cup scene is about to get messier than anybody could have expected.By his own admission, Rahm anticipated the pace of play towards collaboration in elite men’s golf to be considerably sharper than has proven the case. He probably even expected his switch to LIV last December to accelerate talks between Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and traditional tours