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Trial by jury is a right that needs protecting

Beware of restricting it to tackle England’s huge backlog of criminal cases

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Financial Times

The Editorial Board

Ukraine’s Catch-22 moment

Kyiv’s choices are between bad now and worse later

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Financial Times

Franz-Stefan Gady

How London’s housing market stagnated

The introduction of a so-called mansion tax in this year’s Budget is likely to depress prices in some parts of the capital even further

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Financial Times

The Big Read

Labour has trapped the British economy in a web of ‘doublespeak’

Reeves’ Budget shows she’s serious about spending other people’s money — but not about growth or jobs

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Financial Times

Camilla Cavendish

Gaten Matarazzo Lays Out Why He And Stranger Things Co-Star Were 'Disgusting' Roommates

Joe Marler on his first day in the Celebrity Traitors castle Joe Marler has reflected on his surprise banishment in The Celebrity Traitors finale,...

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HuffPost

Daniel Welsh

Millie Bobby Brown Opens Up About David Harbour Friendship After Complaint Reports

Joe Marler on his first day in the Celebrity Traitors castle Joe Marler has reflected on his surprise banishment in The Celebrity Traitors finale,...

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HuffPost

Daniel Welsh

Alexander Skarsgård Clears Up 1 Everyone's Big Question About His Pillion Nude Scene

Black Friday is here and we have all made a few unnecessary purchases here and there over the years, we can admit it. This trend happens every...

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HuffPost

Daniel Welsh

Rachel Reeves Accused Of Misleading Voters Over State Of UK Economy Ahead Of Budget

Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves speaks to nurses and members of the media during a visit to University College London Hospital...

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HuffPost

Kevin Schofield

Keir Starmer Breaks Another Manifesto Pledge By Watering Down Workers' Rights Bill

Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves visit the Benn Partnership Centre, a community centre in Rugby. Keir Starmer is facing yet another Labour revolt...

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Kevin Schofield

BBC Question Time Audience Deliver Damning Verdict On Rachel Reeves's Budget

Joe Marler on his first day in the Celebrity Traitors castle Joe Marler has reflected on his surprise banishment in The Celebrity Traitors finale,...

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HuffPost

Kevin Schofield

From Lingerie To Leggings: 15 Products Our Readers Loved In November

Black Friday is here and we have all made a few unnecessary purchases here and there over the years, we can admit it. This trend happens every...

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HuffPost

Amy Glover

This Is One Of Our Favourite Phone And Network Combos For Busy Professionals

Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves speaks to nurses and members of the media during a visit to University College London Hospital...

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Amy Glover

The '3-3-3 Rule' A Doctor Uses To Tell Bad Sleep From Insomnia

Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves speaks to nurses and members of the media during a visit to University College London Hospital...

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HuffPost

Amy Glover

Question Time Presenter Hits Labour Minister With 7-Word Budget Slapdown

Black Friday is here and we have all made a few unnecessary purchases here and there over the years, we can admit it. This trend happens every...

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HuffPost

Kevin Schofield

Tucker Carlson Eggs On Piers Morgan To Say Gay Slur In Revolting Interview

Joe Marler on his first day in the Celebrity Traitors castle Joe Marler has reflected on his surprise banishment in The Celebrity Traitors finale,...

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HuffPost

Jazmin Tolliver

Zootropolis 2 Reviews: Critics Say Sequel Is A Return To Form For Disney

Black Friday is here and we have all made a few unnecessary purchases here and there over the years, we can admit it. This trend happens every...

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HuffPost

Amy Davidson

Joe Marler Claims Being 'Creepy' Was His Downfall On The Celebrity Traitors

Joe Marler on his first day in the Celebrity Traitors castle Joe Marler has reflected on his surprise banishment in The Celebrity Traitors finale,...

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HuffPost

Amy Davidson

It's OK To Admit We Have Some Black Friday Shopping Regrets

Black Friday is here and we have all made a few unnecessary purchases here and there over the years, we can admit it. This trend happens every...

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HuffPost

Hannah Ballantyne

David Lammy is right to slash the use of juries – it’s an open-and-shut case

David Lammy is right to slash the use of juries – it’s an open-and-shut case

Juries are an archaic and inefficient feature of Britain’s collapsing justice system. They survive only in some English-speaking countries as...

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The Guardian

Simon Jenkins

Congratulations, everyone! Starmer survives another week, and it’s only cost us £26bn

Congratulations, everyone! Starmer survives another week, and it’s only cost us £26bn

Thanks to Labour’s incredible Black Friday deal, breaking manifesto policies is buy-one-get-one-free. As part of its all-promises-must-go drive,...

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The Guardian

Marina Hyde

Jury trials are flawed and unwieldy – but vital for justice being seen to be done

Jury trials are flawed and unwieldy – but vital for justice being seen to be done

For the sake of British justice, something has to give. Everyone knows that the courts are in crisis, that we can’t go on like this. Traumatised...

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The Guardian

Gaby Hinsliff

Is China winning the innovation race?

Once the world’s factory, Beijing’s relentless focus on R&D means the country has become the world’s laboratory

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Financial Times

The Big Read

Fact check: are the NYT’s experts right about UK immigration?

Yesterday’s release of immigration figures by the ONS didn’t make for particularly pleasant reading. While net migration had fallen to around...

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The Spectator

Steerpike

Starmer faces Labour rebellion over employment U-turn

Starmer faces Labour rebellion over employment U-turn

Another day, another drama. On Thursday afternoon, it emerged that Sir Keir Starmer’s government were rolling back their commitment to change the ‘...

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The Spectator

Steerpike

Arthur Miller? Snore! Audiences want new plays – why are theatres too scared to stage them?

Arthur Miller? Snore! Audiences want new plays – why are theatres too scared to stage them?

Crisis? What crisis? British Theatre Before and After Covid, a report released this week, is like a comedy-tragedy mask rendered in academic form....

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The Guardian

Brian Logan

Australia finally acknowledges environment underpins all else. That’s no small thing

Australia finally acknowledges environment underpins all else. That’s no small thing

The passage of long overdue reforms to the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act demonstrates powerfully that...

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The Guardian

Ken Henry

Press freedom is being destroyed from Gaza to America. Don’t think it can’t happen here

Press freedom is being destroyed from Gaza to America. Don’t think it can’t happen here

First things first. It would be remiss of me not to refer specifically to the appalling and outrageous casualty list of Palestinian journalists and...

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The Guardian

Kerry O&x27Brien

So what if Nigel Farage was the school bully?

So what if Nigel Farage was the school bully?

There may well be, somewhere in this nation of ours, a long-established succession of sensitive, emotionally aware 14-year-olds who can appreciate...

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The Spectator

Rob Crossan

How does Black Friday show your true colours?

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The Guardian

Brian Logan

The 28-point ‘peace plan’ for Ukraine may be dead – but Trump still won’t stop Putin

The 28-point ‘peace plan’ for Ukraine may be dead – but Trump still won’t stop Putin

Europe breathed a deep collective sigh of relief on Monday, as the crisis triggered by Washington’s presentation of a new 28-point plan for ending...

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The Guardian

Dmytro Kuleba

Starmer’s Mr Fix-it / Nick Thomas-Symonds: ‘The Brexit architects essentially ran away’

With his owlish expression and affable manner, Nick Thomas-Symonds looks more like the academic that he was, rather than the political bomb...

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The Spectator

Tim Shipman

Kerry O’Brien sounds the alarm for Australian media in thunderous Walkleys address

Kerry O’Brien sounds the alarm for Australian media in thunderous Walkleys address

The former ABC broadcaster Kerry O’Brien got a standing ovation at the 70th Walkley awards on Thursday night for a rousing speech that reminded...

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The Guardian

Amanda Meade

Books / Jessica was the only Mitford worth taking seriously

Books / Jessica was the only Mitford worth taking seriously

Can there really be any point in yet another fat book about one of the Mitford sisters? Their antics have been appearing in print since the late...

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The Spectator

Anne Chisholm

The genocide in Gaza is far from over

The genocide in Gaza is far from over

On 10 October, following two years of Israeli genocide that have turned Gaza into the new benchmark of total destruction, after Israel has killed...

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The Guardian

Raz Segal

The Ajax scandal is worse than embarrassing

The Ajax scandal is worse than embarrassing

Luke Pollard, recently promoted to Minister for Defence Readiness and Industry, must have looked forward to visiting General Dynamics UK in Merthyr...

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The Spectator

Eliot Wilson

Nigel Farage must come clean about his Dulwich College schooldays

Nigel Farage must come clean about his Dulwich College schooldays

The allegations concerning Nigel Farage’s conduct as a schoolboy have returned with unusual force, not because the country is suddenly preoccupied...

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The Spectator

Jonathan Sacerdoti

Walmart reinvents itself as a growth stock

Nasdaq listing is testament to retailer’s transformation under Doug McMillon

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Financial Times

The Editorial Board

Five bets for Newbury’s superb two-day meeting

Five bets for Newbury’s superb two-day meeting

Trainers Harry Derham and Emma Lavelle will almost certainly leave their mark at Newbury over the next two days. Whereas Britain’s most successful...

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The Spectator

Penworthy

The path to peace in Ukraine will be tortuous

The path to peace in Ukraine will be tortuous

In order to impose peace terms, you first need to win the war. That fundamental principle seems, for the moment, to elude Ukraine’s European...

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The Spectator

Owen Matthews

Why Australia’s sharks keep on targeting tourists

Why Australia’s sharks keep on targeting tourists

Thursday dawned bright and warm over the beaches of northern New South Wales. It was a perfect morning to enjoy sun, surf and sand. One young...

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The Spectator

Terry Barnes

The Mansion Tax trap

The Mansion Tax trap

All I seem to do these days is stand in the school car park having anguished, if largely pointless chats: the Mansion Tax chat. But let’s call it...

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The Spectator

Arabella Byrne