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I have a lifelong connection to Victoria’s state library – which is why I am aghast at its crude self-lobotomy

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The Guardian

Gideon Haigh

Madonna Blasts 'Unthinkable' Donald Trump In Post Commemorating World AIDS Day

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HuffPost

Daniel Welsh

Stranger Things Viewers Spot Epic Easter Egg Hidden In Season 5

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage. Reform UK is the only party Brits are more likely to describe as pro-Russia rather than anti-Russia, according to a...

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HuffPost

Daniel Welsh

Scarlett Johansson Raises Eyebrows As She Reflects On Past Defence Of Woody Allen

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage. Reform UK is the only party Brits are more likely to describe as pro-Russia rather than anti-Russia, according to a...

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Daniel Welsh

Friends Is Leaving Netflix In Just 4 Weeks And Fans Are Not Taking It Well

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage. Reform UK is the only party Brits are more likely to describe as pro-Russia rather than anti-Russia, according to a...

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HuffPost

Daniel Welsh

No, David Lammy Is Not Scrapping All Jury Trials

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage. Reform UK is the only party Brits are more likely to describe as pro-Russia rather than anti-Russia, according to a...

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HuffPost

Kate Nicholson

Keir Starmer Slams 'Wild Promises' Made By Brexiteers In Outspoken Attack

Keir Starmer making his speech at the Guildhall. Keir Starmer has launched an outspoken attack on the “wild promises” made by Brexiteers as he...

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HuffPost

Kevin Schofield

2 Easy Steps A Chef Takes To Make Sprouts Extra Delicious

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage. Reform UK is the only party Brits are more likely to describe as pro-Russia rather than anti-Russia, according to a...

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Amy Glover

Rachel Reeves Budget Row Has Left Labour Even Less Trusted Than Liz Truss On The Economy

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Kevin Schofield

Labour's Drive To Bring Down Immigration Is Damaging Economic Growth

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage. Reform UK is the only party Brits are more likely to describe as pro-Russia rather than anti-Russia, according to a...

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HuffPost

Kevin Schofield

BBC Presenter Reminds David Lammy Of All The Times He Opposed Scrapping Jury Trials

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage. Reform UK is the only party Brits are more likely to describe as pro-Russia rather than anti-Russia, according to a...

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HuffPost

Kevin Schofield

Voters Are More Likely To See Reform UK As 'Pro-Russia' Than 'Anti-Russia'

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage. Reform UK is the only party Brits are more likely to describe as pro-Russia rather than anti-Russia, according to a...

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HuffPost

Kate Nicholson

Let's Settle It: Is Expensive Wine Always Best?

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage. Reform UK is the only party Brits are more likely to describe as pro-Russia rather than anti-Russia, according to a...

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HuffPost

Amy Glover

People Are Sharing Why Their Kids Kicked Off And I Feel Instantly Better

Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth arrives for a briefing in the US Capitol with Congressional leaders and Secretary of State Marco Rubio on military...

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HuffPost

Natasha Hinde

'I'm Not Hosting Christmas After My Family Refused To Take Turns Or Chip In'

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Natasha Hinde

Need To Know: Last Posting Dates For Sending Christmas Parcels And Cards

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage. Reform UK is the only party Brits are more likely to describe as pro-Russia rather than anti-Russia, according to a...

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Natasha Hinde

One Woman's Broken Boiler Inspired 105,000 Small Acts Of Kindness

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Natasha Hinde

White House Throws Admiral Under The Bus In Killing Of Alleged Drug Boat Survivors

Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth arrives for a briefing in the US Capitol with Congressional leaders and Secretary of State Marco Rubio on military...

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HuffPost

S.v. Date

Top Trump Adviser Mocked After Boasting About Saving Americans... 19 Cents

Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth arrives for a briefing in the US Capitol with Congressional leaders and Secretary of State Marco Rubio on military...

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HuffPost

Curtis M. Wong

It’s under fire from left and right – but Labour’s workers’ rights bill is a huge achievement

It’s under fire from left and right – but Labour’s workers’ rights bill is a huge achievement

The wall of sound shouting “liar” at the chancellor is a bizarre Westminster frenzy. Stand back from the hysteria and ask this question: how can...

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The Guardian

Polly Toynbee

Why did I ever buy my kids refillable advent calendars?

Why did I ever buy my kids refillable advent calendars?

Maybe 10 years ago, I bought permanent Advent calendars for the kids: Scandi-looking Christmas houses with 24 tiny drawers, from Sainsbury’s. I...

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The Guardian

Zoe Williams

AI poses unprecedented threats. Congress must act now

AI poses unprecedented threats. Congress must act now

Artificial intelligence and robotics will transform the world. It will bring unimaginable changes to our economy, our politics, warfare, our...

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The Guardian

Bernie Sanders

Why it’s good the NHS is paying more for medicines

Why it’s good the NHS is paying more for medicines

We have caved in to bullying from President Trump. It will put NHS budgets under even more pressure. And the Green leader Zack Polanski will...

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The Spectator

Matthew Lynn

From enslavement to Windrush to Hurricane Melissa, Britain is still tearing Caribbean families apart

From enslavement to Windrush to Hurricane Melissa, Britain is still tearing Caribbean families apart

Britain’s long history with the Caribbean, from enslavement to the Windrush scandal, is marked by policies that have fractured families. The Home...

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The Guardian

Nadine White

The opening of Melbourne’s Metro Tunnel has turned me into a shameless train ambassador

The opening of Melbourne’s Metro Tunnel has turned me into a shameless train ambassador

I think people assumed I was doing a bit when I turned into a Metro Tunnel-head. Overnight, my Instagram Stories went from pictures of my cat, pub...

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The Guardian

Brodie Lancaster

Sound check / 2025 has been a fantastic year for music

Sound check / 2025 has been a fantastic year for music

Norman Lebrecht, who attends concerts as frequently as falcons swoop over St John’s Wood, has declared 2025 to be a terrible year for music. We are...

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The Spectator

Michael Henderson

Starmer’s China policy seems stuck in the past

Starmer’s China policy seems stuck in the past

Prior to entering No. 10, Keir Starmer had little experience of foreign affairs. Yet in office, the subject has consumed a disproportionate amount...

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The Spectator

James Heale

Theatre’s tragedy / The theatre isn’t a thinktank

Readers tend not to approve of rows between columnists, but I must take issue with something Lloyd Evans wrote in ‘No life’ last week. Our theatre...

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The Spectator

Douglas Murray

Labour are almost as deluded as the Your Party faithful

Labour are almost as deluded as the Your Party faithful

Kemi Badenoch has some thoughts on the Labour party. When pressed by the Telegraph on who or what would come after Rachel Reeves in the terrible...

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The Spectator

Gareth Roberts

Notes on... / Why are we so suspicious of magpies?

I started counting magpies during my brief, doomed time as a history teacher. Trudging in every morning, the grim prospect of Weimar Germany with...

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The Spectator

William Atkinson

The most misleading thing about Rachel Reeves’s budget? Who it was really for

The most misleading thing about Rachel Reeves’s budget? Who it was really for

The charge is a grave one: that Rachel Reeves has just lied to Britons, spooking them into paying billions in extra taxes that she can splash out...

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The Guardian

Aditya Chakrabortty

It is not too late to put the brakes on assisted dying, and focus on what is really needed

It is not too late to put the brakes on assisted dying, and focus on what is really needed

Time is running out to right the wrongs of England and Wales’s assisted dying legislation. The House of Lords is holding committee sittings, which...

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The Guardian

Gordon Brown

Je m’accuse / The art of owning up

Je m’accuse / The art of owning up

Though Rebecca Culley is obviously a wrong ’un – having stolen £90,000 from her dear old gramps while pretending to care for him and only spend a...

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The Spectator

Julie Burchill

Buffet blues / Why are hotel breakfasts so bad?

Buffet blues / Why are hotel breakfasts so bad?

Where else would you see anyone wandering around with a plate heaped with such incongruous ingredients as bacon, olives, blueberry waffles and a...

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The Spectator

Julie Bindel

Noel? No thank you / The horror of the festive period

Noel? No thank you / The horror of the festive period

I was driving my daughter to school recently when we tuned into Heart Breakfast. A caller was attempting to answer five Christmas-related questions...

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The Spectator

G.v. Chappell

The Lists 2025: Top five press ads

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campaign

Staff

Has 2025 been the year for independent agencies?

Has 2025 been the year for independent agencies?

At the start of the year, 2025 was predicted by some adland commentators to be the year for independent agencies. Omnicom had set out to acquire...

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campaign

Lucy Shelley

Save the Children ad delivers aid in red Christmas trucks in first work by Ace of Hearts

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campaign

Eszter Gurbicz

Labour needs to wake up

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New Statesman

Clive Lewis

My small thanks to Andreas Whittam Smith

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New Statesman

Gerry Brakus

The OBR is pushing us into a doom loop

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New Statesman

Jeevun Sandher

Jane Austen shunned literary fame – but transformed the novel from the shadows

Jane Austen shunned literary fame – but transformed the novel from the shadows

Jane Austen’s Paper Trail is a podcast from The Conversation celebrating 250 years since the author’s birth. In each episode, we’ll be...

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The Conversation

Anna Walker

The Green threat is growing

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New Statesman

Ben Walker

The cruel pension divide that is more unfair than the triple lock

The cruel pension divide that is more unfair than the triple lock

The stereotype used to be that the public sector pays less than the private sector, but they get better pensions in return. I often hear this...

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iNews

Mark Wallace

Ex-Google Madhav Chinnappa: 'NATO for news' model is our "least worst option" for dealing with AI

NATO – the North Atlantic Treaty Organization — is a military alliance where countries agree to defend each other and act together for their...

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journalism.co.uk

Jacob Granger

Scott Begbie: Flint shows it’s time to stop writing off Aberdeen thanks to a Union Street Christmas miracle

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The Press & Journal

Scott Begbie

British Fashion Awards 2025: All The Red Carpet Photos You Need To See

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HuffPost

Daniel Welsh

How does anyone get on a government board these days?

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The Guardian

It Helps To Have Friends In High Places