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The Budget is already hitting us where it hurts – our pockets

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Mark Wallace

Nuclear weapons are stopping us becoming the next Ukraine

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Diana Magnay

My daughter died a year ago. Mexico's Day of the Dead helped soothe my grief

My gorgeous daughter died a year ago this week. So what a strange time to be in Mexico amid the annual Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) festival,...

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Ian Birrell

There is only one way to have a happy marriage: accept your partner will never change

On the one hand, there is the good news that – according to an article in Vogue that has achieved much traction and to whose contents have been...

yesterday 10

Lucy Mangan

Andrew should lose every privilege, but taking his Falklands medal is too much

“Even were a VC to be sentenced to be hanged for murder, he should be allowed to wear his VC on the scaffold.” This was the view of King George V,...

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Simon Kelner

A suspect's ethnicity has become a priority – and it's chilling

The post-attack police press conference is one of the grimmest necessary rituals of British public life. A few dozen journalists, gathered around a...

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Lewis Goodall

The Home Office is broken – to fix it, we must first destroy it

In 2023, a team of outside experts were combing through Home Office spreadsheets looking for ways to save money on the ballooning asylum hotel...

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Danny Shaw

With Andrew gone, there's a way back to royal life for Prince Harry

Anyone who thinks the consequences of Andrew Mountbatten Windsor’s royal defenestration will end with a scrap over which particular house on the...

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Anne Mcelvoy

The forgotten victims of this housing crisis: the pensioners forced to downsize

In the run-up to Rachel Reeves’s 2025 Budget, the whispers are growing louder: older homeowners should “right-size”, “free up family homes”,...

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Stefano Hatfield

Charles and William have saved the House of Windsor - for now

The House of Windsor has gone Macbeth, albeit without the bloodshed. “Thane of Cawdor”, “Thane of Glamis”; in the Scottish play the King yanks away...

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Adam Boulton

The Word of 2025 couldn't make me feel less cool or excluded. But that's the point

When the proclaimed “Word of the Year” is not actually a word, and no-one knows precisely what it means, it is probably safe to say that we have...

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Simon Kelner

Attacking Rachel Reeves shows how desperate the Tories have become

One of the many skills politicians really need is knowing when to make a call. Over the past few years, we’ve seen how badly that sense can go...

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Isabel Hardman

I only agreed to a second child because my husband is taking four months off

Sometime around my daughter turning one, I put all of her newborn clothes in a big sack and gave them away to a friend who was about to have a baby....

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