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Here’s where to get your hands on the Nintendo Switch 2 console today(Image: David Parry/PA Media Assignments)
The brand-new gaming console is now available for purchase at numerous retailers, with the Nintendo Switch 2 now available for purchase. There are other ways to purchase the console, which the Nintendo website now indicates as out of stock. The newest console is available at four UK retailers listed below.
The online retailer is Amazon, which offers the Nintendo Switch 2 for £395.99. Fans of Mario Kart World will be pleased to see that Amazon also has a bundle that includes the game for just $49.99.
Another retailer sells the Mario Kart World bundle for £429.99 and the Nintendo Switch 2 for $ 349.95. Additionally, Very offers a 12-month free insurance policy, giving gamers peace of mind.
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Where can I purchase the Nintendo Switch 2 from Argos, Amazon, GAME, and Smyths?
Gamers can purchase the console at Currys if they prefer to pay annually. The retailer is offering a 36-month subscription to the Nintendo Switch 2 for just £16.
Customers can choose to pay as little or as much as they like for a six-month period, with no interest payments due if they pay in full by December 5th, 2025. The console costs only £395 upfront, which is also significantly less than other retailers.
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EE is another retailer offering a monthly option for gamers. The Nintendo Switch 2 with Mario Kart World bundle costs £22 a month over 24 months, with an upfront cost of £20.
The Switch 2 is an upgraded version of the original Switch console, with the new device having a bigger screen and new features, plus a variety of exclusive games to get lost in. The Switch 2 has a 7.9-inch LCD display with 1080p resolution, a custom Nvidia chipset, and the ability to output in 4K.
Many retailers are selling a Nintendo Switch 2 with Mario Kart World bundle(Image: Amazon)
The console comes with a new Pro controller and joy-cons, plus a Game Chat camera enabling gamers to chat with their friends. Many of the above-mentioned retailers are also now selling a variety of Switch 2 games.
Once they have been upgraded, the Switch 2 can play games from the original Switch console for a fee. Super Mario Party: Jamboree, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and Pokémon Scarlet and Violet are just a few examples.
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On the Switch 2, third-party games like Cyberpunk: 2077 and Star Wars: Outlaws can be played. Due to the improved custom chipset, which enables the AI-powered DLSS, to upscale games from lower resolution, this is achieved.
A liberal group and social media users shared posts that say President Donald Trump’s “one big beautiful bill” for tax and spending would let him reschedule or eliminate elections.
“If the Senate passes the ‘one big beautiful bill’ and Trump signs it, that’s it. It becomes law,” said the viral graphic on Meta and X. “And here’s what that really means. He can delay or cancel elections – legally.” The post included a long list of other claims about what the bill would accomplish; for this fact-check, we are focusing on the elections claim.
The group Being Liberal, which calls itself “one of the oldest social media liberal political brands”, took down the graphic after we reached out for comment. The group told us it didn’t create the post and removed it because the elections claim wasn’t accurate.
The earliest reference for the graphic we found online was from an anonymous blog post on May 23.
The bill does not give Trump power to delay or cancel elections, an action that would be unconstitutional.
“The bill would not directly give the president any authority over elections,” said Eric Kashdan, senior legal counsel at the Campaign Legal Center, a group that advocates for voting rights and this year sued the Trump administration over a voter registration executive order.
A spokesperson for House Speaker Mike Johnson, Griffin Neal, told PolitiFact, “The bill obviously does not provide the President of the United States with the authority to cancel or delay elections.”
The US House passed the tax and spending bill May 22 and it now moves to the Senate, where lawmakers could make changes. Senator John Thune of South Dakota, the Senate majority leader, said he hopes the bill can be sent to Trump by July 4.
The bill includes one provision related to democracy and checks and balances; it would expand the executive branch’s power by curtailing judges’ ability to hold people in contempt of court. Provision critics said it could take away the courts’ power to restrain the federal government if it violates the Constitution or breaks the law.
We found no provision in the bill that says the president can delay or cancel an election.
In July 2020, amid the pandemic and a surge in voting by mail, Trump floated the idea of delaying the election. At the time, he was running for re-election.
But the Constitution empowers Congress to set the date by which states must choose their presidential electors, the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service found in 2020.
“Since 1845, Congress has required states to appoint presidential electors on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November, which represents the date by which voters in every state must cast their ballot for President,” the report said.
Congress still has that power, said Edward Foley, an Ohio State University constitutional law professor.
The Electoral Count Reform Act of 2022 added a new definition of “Election Day” that makes it clear that a voting extension can occur only through state law specified in advance and under tightly restricted conditions, such as a catastrophe, Foley said.
That means Election Day “cannot otherwise be cancelled or delayed” and the president plays no role in any alteration of Election Day, Foley said.
Congress can change the Election Day date by enacting a new statute, as it did with the Electoral Count Reform Act, Foley said.
Erwin Chemerinsky, a University of California, Berkeley law professor, told PolitiFact nothing in the bill lets Trump cancel or delay elections.
“The Constitution provides that elections for Congress be held every two years and for President every four years,” Chemerinsky said. “There is no constitutional authority to cancel elections.”
A view of an agenda with the words ‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act’, on the day of a House Rules Committee’s hearing on US President Donald Trump’s plan for extensive tax cuts in Washington, DC, on May 21, 2025 [File: Nathan Howard/Reuters]
Bill provision would make it harder for judges to find Trump in contempt of court
The bill includes a different provision that some experts called a threat to democracy, but not at the ballot box.
Section 70302 would make it harder for judges to find a defendant in contempt of court for ignoring a judge’s orders. Here’s how: The legislation would require plaintiffs to pay a security bond before a judge could find the defendant in contempt of court. That would mean judges could no longer waive the security bond requirement, something that frequently happens in cases against the government.
The section references a federal rule that says a court may issue a preliminary injunction or temporary restraining order only if the plaintiff pays a security bond to cover costs and damages by any party “found to have been wrongfully enjoined or restrained”.
A security bond is an insurance policy to protect someone wrongfully accused of wrongdoing from financial losses during litigation, Kashdan said. The courts can require plaintiffs to pay money that the court holds until the end of the litigation
“If they win, they get their money back,” Kashdan said. “If they lose, and the person they sued had a right to do whatever it was they were prevented from doing during the lawsuit, they get to keep that money to help compensate them for any losses they experienced during the litigation.”
However, “those seeking such court orders generally do not have the resources to post a bond, and insisting on it would immunise unconstitutional government conduct from judicial review,” wrote Chemerinsky for the website Just Security, which publishes a Trump litigation tracker. “It always has been understood that courts can choose to set the bond at zero.”
A March White House memo that criticised organisations for suing the federal government said enforcement of the security bond rule “is critical to ensuring that taxpayers do not foot the bill for costs or damages caused by wrongly issued preliminary relief by activist judges and to achieving the effective administration of justice”.
The House bill provision raised concern among groups that have defended the judiciary’s role to provide a check on Trump’s power.
As of May 23, at least 177 court rulings have temporarily paused Trump administration actions, according to The New York Times.
Our ruling
Social media posts say the Republican tax and budget bill will let Trump “delay or cancel elections – legally”.
We found nothing in the bill that would let Trump cancel or delay elections. A provision would make it harder for judges to hold people in contempt of court, but that is not the same as cancelling elections.
Only Congress can change a presidential election’s date, not the president, and this bill doesn’t change that.
Ronnie Vint and Harriett Blackmore, who adore Love Island, split up. The couple and the couple took a romantic vacation together just days before the new season of the ITV2 dating show premiered.
After falling in love with one another on the previous series of the show over the summer, Ronnie and Harriett both traveled to South Africa earlier this year to make their first appearance on Love Island All Stars. However, it appears that their once-kindled romance has since broken up, just a few weeks after they shared a romantic vacation in Ibiza.
Ronnie, 28, and Harriett, 25, have both brutally deleted their Instagram accounts and unfollowed one another.
Ronnie and Harriett have split from their Love Island fandom (Jonathan Hordle/ITV/REX/Shutterstock).
Fans have been rumor-mongering about a breakup between the pair in recent days after finding out about their social media activity. The pair posted a TikTok video about their romantic getaway to Ibiza a few weeks later.
Harriett gushed to Mirror about Ronnie’s upcoming romance ahead of the trip. When questioned about the relationship between the two, she responded, “Super good! This week, we’re actually going on vacation together; we’re going to Dubai. Everyone keeps asking if it’s our first vacation together, which it is, but we kind of got together during the vacation. I’m excited to leave with just the two of us because we’ve both been so busy lately. A good roller coaster, but one that was fun.
The pair had intended to relocate together this month, but their split will unmistakably put an end to those plans. “Yes! – Harriett said to us! in June . Everything is happening right away. It’s exciting to be moving up to London. We’ll spend a lot of time with Matilda [Draper], so we’ll be going back and forth.
And when asked how she felt about the significant move, she responded, “Actually, fine. Although some claim that moving in together will show the cracks, we already crossed that bridge because we met in the villa and shared daily pockets. This is “just a new chapter,”
The two, who split up in 2024, acknowledge Ronnie’s allegations of cheating. The Essex star, who is best friends with fellow Love Island legend Oliva Attwood, reacted furiously to the rumor.
There is nothing else, and [Harriett] knows that, he said as he explained, “I’ve been doing PAs, and obviously I’m going to take photos with girls and whatever.”
You’ve just got to be thick-skinned because someone wants to make a little money off of a story, and we know what’s true, and that is that, as some people have said.
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Ronnie Vint and Harriett Blackmore, who adore Love Island, split up. The couple and the couple took a romantic vacation together just days before the new season of the ITV2 dating show premiered.
After falling in love with one another on the previous series of the show over the summer, Ronnie and Harriett both traveled to South Africa earlier this year to make their first appearance on Love Island All Stars. However, it appears that their once-kindled romance has since broken up, just a few weeks after they shared a romantic vacation in Ibiza.
Ronnie, 28, and Harriett, 25, have both brutally deleted their Instagram accounts and unfollowed one another.
Ronnie and Harriett have split from their Love Island fandom (Jonathan Hordle/ITV/REX/Shutterstock).
Fans have been rumor-mongering about a breakup between the pair in recent days after finding out about their social media activity. The pair posted a TikTok video about their romantic getaway to Ibiza a few weeks later.
Harriett gushed to Mirror about Ronnie’s upcoming romance ahead of the trip. When questioned about the relationship between the two, she responded, “Super good! This week, we’re actually going on vacation together; we’re going to Dubai. Everyone keeps asking if it’s our first vacation together, which it is, but we kind of got together during the vacation. I’m excited to leave with just the two of us because we’ve both been so busy lately. A good roller coaster, but one that was fun.
The pair had intended to relocate together this month, but their split will unmistakably put an end to those plans. “Yes! – Harriett said to us! in June . Everything is happening right away. It’s exciting to be moving up to London. We’ll spend a lot of time with Matilda [Draper], so we’ll be going back and forth.
And when asked how she felt about the significant move, she responded, “Actually, fine. Although some claim that moving in together will show the cracks, we already crossed that bridge because we met in the villa and shared daily pockets. This is “just a new chapter,”
The two, who split up in 2024, acknowledge Ronnie’s allegations of cheating. The Essex star, who is best friends with fellow Love Island legend Oliva Attwood, reacted furiously to the rumor.
There is nothing else, and [Harriett] knows that, he said as he explained, “I’ve been doing PAs, and obviously I’m going to take photos with girls and whatever.”
You’ve just got to be thick-skinned because someone wants to make a little money off of a story, and we know what’s true, and that is that, as some people have said.
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China has told the European Union to stop “provoking trouble” in the South China Sea after EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas expressed concerns about Beijing’s coercive activities in the strategically important waterway.
“We urge the EU to genuinely respect China’s territorial sovereignty and maritime rights and interests in the South China Sea and to stop provoking trouble,” a spokesperson for China’s embassy in Manila said in a statement on Thursday.
China said the EU had no right to interfere in regional issues, and advised the Philippines that it should stop “fantasising about relying on external forces” to resolve disputes regarding the sovereignty of the South China Sea.
The warning from China’s embassy follows a meeting between Kallas and the Philippines’ foreign minister, Enrique Manalo, in Manila earlier this week, where they announced a new security and defence dialogue between the EU and the Philippines to counter threats like foreign interference, cyberattacks and misinformation campaigns.
The two sides also expressed concerns about China’s “illegal, coercive, aggressive and deceptive measures” against Philippine vessels and aircraft carrying out lawful maritime operations in the South China Sea.
When asked by reporters about the EU’s red lines towards China in the South China Sea, Kallas said that the EU is committed to upholding peace and a rules-based order.
“We reject any unilateral changes to the status quo, including use of coercion,” Kallas said.
Half a dozen countries, including the Philippines, lay claim to different parts of the South China Sea, but Beijing claims sovereignty over almost all of it.
Prior to a summit in the middle of the month, US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has pressed NATO members to agree to Donald Trump’s demand for a significant increase in defense spending.
The US president argued that NATO allies should increase defense spending from the current 2 percent target to 5 percent of GDP.
You must be more than just flags to be an alliance, according to the saying. You must form formations. You must have a purpose beyond conferences. Hegseth arrived for a meeting of the defense ministers in Brussels on Thursday to meet with the demands that you maintain your combat readiness.
Hegseth continued, “We’re here to continue the work that President Trump started, which is to commit to 5% defense spending across this alliance,” adding that “it must happen by the summit at The Hague later this month.”
Members of the military alliance should increase defense spending to 3.5% of GDP and commit a further 1.5% to broader security-related spending as a compromise with the new target, according to NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.
Rutte told reporters on Wednesday that “we have to go further and we have to go faster.”
The NATO summit in The Hague will have a new defense investment plan at its heart, he added.
Meeting a 5-percent target, according to Al Jazeera’s Hashem Ahelbarra, will be “extremely challenging” for some European nations, including Spain, Germany, and Belgium, according to a report from Brussels.
However, Ahelbarra stated that they have decided to coordinate their military strategy, particularly when it comes to purchasing long-range missiles and training their troops to be prepared for any potential geopolitical change.
European NATO members have been steadily increasing their defense spending since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Ahelbarra claimed that Russia’s continued status as the “biggest threat to stability in the region” is “concerned” by European members.
Budgetary goals for defense
According to diplomats, nations are attempting to bargain the deadlines to meet the 5-percent target.
According to Rutte, some nations believe that 2032 will be too late, while others believe that this unrealistic goal, given the current levels of industrial production and spending, is unrealistic.
Dovile Sakaliene, the minister of defense in Lithuania, argued on Wednesday that 2030 is “definitely too late” and that the target has been set for at least by 2030.
Stockholm also wants the bloc to meet its 5-percent target by 2030, according to Swedish Defense Minister Pal Jonson on Thursday.
