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The lesson of Cronulla was that the beach was not for people like me. But it’s a myth I am increasingly resisting

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The Guardian

Sarah Malik

I'm A Celebrity 2025 Final: Who Won As Viewers Crown New King Of The Jungle?

Nigel Farage during last year's election campaign. Nigel Farage has been urged to “come clean” amid claims his campaign broke the law by spending...

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HuffPost

Daniel Welsh

Strictly Come Dancing 2025: Who Left After Most Shocking Dance-Off Of The Series?

Nigel Farage during last year's election campaign. Nigel Farage has been urged to “come clean” amid claims his campaign broke the law by spending...

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HuffPost

Daniel Welsh

5. Lawrence Newport: “It’s more than system failure – it’s people failure”

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New Statesman

Jason Cowley

Nigel Farage Urged To 'Come Clean' Over Claims He Broke Election Law

Nigel Farage during last year's election campaign. Nigel Farage has been urged to “come clean” amid claims his campaign broke the law by spending...

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HuffPost

Kevin Schofield

Trump Points The Finger Solely At Zelenskyy For Hold-Up In Ukraine Peace Talks

Nigel Farage during last year's election campaign. Nigel Farage has been urged to “come clean” amid claims his campaign broke the law by spending...

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HuffPost

Kate Nicholson

People In The UK Are Opening Their Doors to Refugees – And Finding New Family

Nigel Farage during last year's election campaign. Nigel Farage has been urged to “come clean” amid claims his campaign broke the law by spending...

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HuffPost

Natasha Hinde

JD Vance Awkwardly Slips Below-the-Belt Brag Into Story About Trump

Nigel Farage during last year's election campaign. Nigel Farage has been urged to “come clean” amid claims his campaign broke the law by spending...

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HuffPost

Kelby Vera

Indonesia’s authoritarian tilt

President Prabowo Subianto has centralised power and forged close ties with the military, raising concerns about autocratic creep

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Financial Times

The Big Read

Record keeping / Bring back the album

Usually when my tweenage sons ask about relics from my 1990s adolescence – ‘What’s a landline?’ ‘What’s a phone book?’ – we’ll have...

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The Spectator

Flora Watkins

America’s affordability crunch is real — and worse under Trump

The president may pretend it’s a hoax but his policy agenda has added to the squeeze

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Financial Times

The Editorial Board

Britain's water crisis is getting worse

Britain's water crisis is getting worse

When the taps run dry in Tunbridge Wells you know something has gone very wrong in the heart of Albion. Some 24,000 residents had their water...

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The Spectator

Alex Klaushofer

Why this trans person is troubled by a conversion therapy ban

Why this trans person is troubled by a conversion therapy ban

Conversion practices are in the news again, at least if you listen to the BBC. We woke up to the Today programme on Friday recounting appalling...

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The Spectator

Debbie Hayton

Hello, goodbye / Let the Beatles be

Hello, goodbye / Let the Beatles be

Like most freelance writers, I have a notepad full of jottings which come under the loose category of ‘Ideas I Probably Won’t Get Round To Doing...

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The Spectator

Rob Crossan

Jeffrey Epstein’s most powerful ally was silence

Jeffrey Epstein’s most powerful ally was silence

For years, Jeffrey Epstein conjured a kind of grotesque fascination: the private island, the powerful friends, the whispered allegations. But...

9

The Guardian

Gretchen Carlson And Julie Roginsky

Crowning glory / Why British diplomacy needs the royals

Crowning glory / Why British diplomacy needs the royals

Watching David Dimbleby watching the royal family, I am instantly reminded of the BBC’s other royal David. It is pure Attenborough as he examines...

9

The Spectator

Robert Hardman

Classical music / Bruckner on Ozempic – and the première of the year

Classical music / Bruckner on Ozempic – and the première of the year

Bruckner at the Wigmore Hall. Yes, you heard right: a Bruckner symphony – his second: usually performed by 80-odd musicians – on a stage scarcely...

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The Spectator

Igor Toronyi-Lalic

Silenced by China, Hong Kong struggles to voice its grief over the Tai Po fire disaster

Silenced by China, Hong Kong struggles to voice its grief over the Tai Po fire disaster

White flowers at makeshift shrines and messages of support posted in a public square. A rainbow of folded paper cranes. Boxes of donated goods for...

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The Guardian

Antony Dapiran

In hiding / The Sloane Ranger is in dire straits

In hiding / The Sloane Ranger is in dire straits

Every few years, an obituary for the Sloane Ranger appears. In 2015, the Telegraph proclaimed their death. In 2022, Peter York himself,...

9

The Spectator

Arabella Byrne

America’s economy is at the mercy of crony capitalism

The Trump administration’s approach to ethics could eventually cost investors in US assets

30

Financial Times

Rana Foroohar

Ford CEO: Europe is risking the future of its auto industry

Setting unrealistic EV regulations only to adjust them when consumers do not show up is a recipe for turmoil

20

Financial Times

Jim Farley

There is already an answer to securing Sudan’s future

A grassroots network is providing life-saving food and medical care to citizens in a country where the state no longer exists

20

Financial Times

Payton Knopf

The UK must do more than go on muddling through

We need to look at the causes of the country’s dire economic performance

10

Financial Times

Martin Wolf

Volvo sister brand Geely launches UK creative review

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campaign

Charlotte Rawlings

Online activists are all right-wing now

30

New Statesman

Ella Dorn

Bring back the spirit of the 2010 student fees protests

9

New Statesman

Michael Chessum

Vodafone picks holdco for EMEA creative account

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campaign

Marianne Calnan-Holland

WPP Media upgrades 2025 UK adspend forecast

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campaign

Will Green

Pity the Labour staffers

8

New Statesman

Samir Jeraj

Syria’s fragile future

8

New Statesman

Cian Ward

Andrew broke Britain's bond with the monarchy - and put the Royal Family at risk

Andrew broke Britain's bond with the monarchy - and put the Royal Family at risk

Who broke Britain? Welcome to The i Paper’s new opinion series in which our range of experts tackle this question and identify the individuals...

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iNews

Kate Maltby

How Uusi Juttu added 10,000 paying members in three weeks

Forget expensive marketing campaigns and influencer partnerships. When Zetland's Finnish sister publication Uusi Juttu needed to grow fast, it...

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journalism.co.uk

Jacob Granger

Farage Biographer Says Reform Leader Has 'Totally Lost It' Over Racism Allegations

Nigel Farage during last year's election campaign. Nigel Farage has been urged to “come clean” amid claims his campaign broke the law by spending...

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HuffPost

Kevin Schofield

Trump’s new doctrine confirms it. Ready or not, Europe is on its own

Trump’s new doctrine confirms it. Ready or not, Europe is on its own

Europe is on a trajectory towards nothing less than “civilisational erasure”, the Trump administration claims in its extraordinary new National...

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The Guardian

Georg Riekeles And Varg Folkman

Canada’s environmental ‘realism’ looks more like surrender

Canada’s environmental ‘realism’ looks more like surrender

Last week, the United Kingdom did something all too rare: it chose leadership by backing science and prioritizing public safety. The Labour...

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The Guardian

Tzeporah Berman

Bad sport / Aussies are enjoying England's Ashes meltdown

Bad sport / Aussies are enjoying England's Ashes meltdown

What a letdown for lovers of Test cricket in both England and Australia. After just six playing days, the Ashes series between the two old enemies...

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The Spectator

Terry Barnes

Lammy’s jury reforms face an uphill battle

Lammy’s jury reforms face an uphill battle

If you speak to Labour MPs about looming battles in the new year, most are quick to mention the elections in May. But an almighty scrap is shaping...

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The Spectator

James Heale

Why I am proud to be a part of the Guardian

Why I am proud to be a part of the Guardian

On election day last month, I spent some time interviewing poll workers in New York City. When I introduced myself to one, I told her that I write...

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The Guardian

Margaret Sullivan

Will Starmer take up Badenoch's grooming gangs advice?

Will Starmer take up Badenoch's grooming gangs advice?

Plans for a national inquiry into grooming gangs are underway, but will the inquiry actually happen? The Labour-led probe has not yet started and...

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The Spectator

Lucy Dunn

My dream of jet set glamour has died – in a pleather chair full of other people’s crumbs

My dream of jet set glamour has died – in a pleather chair full of other people’s crumbs

The New Yorker has published a deliciously fact-stuffed long read on the airport lounge: there are more than 3,500 worldwide, of which 37 are in...

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The Guardian

Emma Beddington

A four-day week for teachers? This is why that isn’t a luxury for us – it’s a necessity

A four-day week for teachers? This is why that isn’t a luxury for us – it’s a necessity

Tis the season to be jolly, unless you’re a teacher, in which case you are most likely a zombified wreck tenuously held together by caffeine and...

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The Guardian

Lola Okolosie

The social media ban will leave young Australians in the dark on news and politics. It’s not fair

The social media ban will leave young Australians in the dark on news and politics. It’s not fair

The social media ban for under-16s is going to stop teenagers from watching a lot of things: clips from their favourite shows, sports highlights,...

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The Guardian

Leo Puglisi

Does Pete Hegseth even believe that war crimes exist?

Does Pete Hegseth even believe that war crimes exist?

Pete Hegseth’s office is located on the third floor of the Pentagon, in the E ring, room 3E880, facing the Potomac River with a scenic view of the...

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The Guardian

Sidney Blumenthal

Police / Jewish fans deserve the truth about Maccabi Tel Aviv's Villa Park ban

Police / Jewish fans deserve the truth about Maccabi Tel Aviv's Villa Park ban

Everyone is familiar with the old insult that you can tell when a politician is not telling the truth because his lips move. Be that as it may, a...

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The Spectator

Stephen Pollard

Ireland is a weak spot in Russia's undersea cable war

Ireland is a weak spot in Russia's undersea cable war

Europe is right now fighting an enemy it cannot see and protecting a vulnerability it has not mapped. Undersea drones are taking the conflict...

6

The Spectator

Andy Jones

Woman to stand trial accused of luring man to robbery

Woman to stand trial accused of luring man to robbery

A man and a woman accused of being involved in a Norwich robbery are to stand trial in 2028.

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Eastern Daily Press

Peter Walsh

Man out of hospital after attack in Norwich's clubland

Man out of hospital after attack in Norwich's clubland

A man is out of hospital after he was attacked by another man in Norwich's nightclub district.

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Eastern Daily Press

Peter Walsh

Man recovering at home after Halloween attack near Norwich train station

Man recovering at home after Halloween attack near Norwich train station

A man seriously hurt in a group attack near Norwich railway station has been discharged from hospital.

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Eastern Daily Press

Peter Walsh

Man caught with 7,000 indecent images after being snared by paedophile hunters

Man caught with 7,000 indecent images after being snared by paedophile hunters

A man who amassed a collection of more than 7,000 indecent images of children was snared by online paedophile hunters.

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Eastern Daily Press

Peter Walsh

Investigation stalls into theft of fuel from farm near Norwich

Investigation stalls into theft of fuel from farm near Norwich

An investigation into the theft of around 1,600 litres of diesel from a farm site on the outskirts of Norwich has stalled.

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Eastern Daily Press

Peter Walsh