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ON THIS DAY
1893: The Independent Labour Party was formed by Keir Hardie.
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January 13, 2026
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Sorry, trolls, autistic Barbie may be Mattel's best doll yet
From Barbie dolls with wheelchairs, canes, prosthetic legs and hearing aids; to blind Barbies and dolls with Down syndrome and type 1 diabetes - plus a Ken doll with vitiligo - playing with toys has come a long, long way since I last had a ragtag bunch of Barbie, Sindy and Jem dolls in the 1980s.
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January 13, 2026
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WIRED AND HIRED
As recruitment teams are increasingly turning to elaborate AI-assisted screening techniques to find staff, Helen Coffey gets quizzed by an avatar and ponders the wider implications
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January 13, 2026
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‘Port Talbot Pompeii’ find stuns archaeological team
Experts ‘strike gold’ with largest Roman villa discovery
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January 13, 2026
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Zahawi 'begged for peerage before defecting to Reform
Controversial former Tory chancellor Nadhim Zahawi has defected to Reform UK after apparently unsuccessfully “begging” to be nominated for a peerage.
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January 13, 2026
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Mitigation hearing starts in trial of Hong Kong activist
Supporters of Jimmy Lai had queued for days outside court
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January 13, 2026
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Trump is playing with fire by attacking the Federal Reserve
Donald Trump says he did not know about the US Department of Justice’s threatened criminal prosecution of Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell.
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January 13, 2026
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NICE AND TOASTY
Rachael Penn snuggles up to the top electric heaters
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January 13, 2026
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Should we explore Japan by car on our September trip?
Q We are planning a five-week trip to Japan in September. Bullet trains are the quickest way to get between major cities. However, in less populated areas, transport seems more difficult. As they drive on the same side of the road as us, we are thinking of hiring a car. Do you have any thoughts on this?
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January 13, 2026
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What will former top Tory bring to his new party?
Former cabinet minister Nadhim Zahawi is the latest prominent Conservative to defect to Reform UK - to the obvious delight of its leader, Nigel Farage. Much is made of Zahawi’s expertise and experience, and he claims that he humbly wishes to be a “foot soldier” in Farage’s army because “we can all see that our beautiful, ancient, kind, magical island story has reached a dark and dangerous chapter”.
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January 13, 2026
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Le Carré or not, The Night Manager needed a big twist
The makers of series two opted for a shock reveal – not a ploy ever used by the author, but still effective
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January 13, 2026
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If Iran falls, the UN will be first to feel the shockwaves
The grisly images of morgues overflowing with corpses smuggled out of Iran are so shocking, they have silenced the usual apologists for the Islamic Republic.
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January 13, 2026
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Stop 'disgusting' Al images or we will, PM tells Musk
Sir Keir Starmer has issued an ultimatum to Elon Musk, announcing that the government will take “fast action” to deal with the abuses of the AI tool Grok on X (Twitter).
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January 13, 2026
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Iran and US tiptoe towards dialogue after threats of war
Tehran says US lacks seriousness as messages are exchanged between Iranian foreign minister and Donald Trump's envoy
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January 13, 2026
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Liverpool thrash spirited Barnsley in lively FA Cup
Few score from 30 yards and create a goal with a backheel in the same game.
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January 13, 2026
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RIGHT ON THE MONEY
Square Mile drama 'Industry' explores human nature in all its brutal, beautiful ugliness in season four
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January 13, 2026
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EU 'demands Farage clause in reset talks with Starmer
The EU is said to be demanding that financial compensation be paid by any future British government that reneges on a post-Brexit “reset” deal signed with Sir Keir Starmer, as part of an attempt to protect the agreement should Reform UK ever come to power.
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January 13, 2026
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Negative equity may be the reason your house won't sell
A significant proportion of London's homeowners are selling for less than they paid. James Moore wonders if we are seeing the re-emergence of a problem we thought we'd left behind
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January 13, 2026
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Coach gamble underlines duopoly of Alcaraz-Sinner
The battle for supremacy took a twist with the news of Carlos Alcaraz's split from his coach. Ahead of the Australian Open, Jamie Braidwood ponders what it means for their rivalry
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January 13, 2026
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Cup success can lift City's young guns to greater glory
When Pep Guardiola looks at his captain, he will see a man with the same medal collection as him from their time in England.
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January 13, 2026
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Adolescence and Hamnet dominate at Golden Globes
Stephen Graham, Owen Cooper and Erin Doherty continued Adolescence’s winning streak as they all secured gongs at the Golden Globes - while Irish star Jessie Buckley picked up a prize for her performance in Hamnet.
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January 13, 2026
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Farage and Zahawi dismiss historic Twitter exchanges
Social media posts in which the pair harangued each other began to emerge following the former minister's defection
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January 13, 2026
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Saracens find old fighting spirit to terrify Toulouse
Perhaps the days of Saracens as an Investec Champions Cup force are not quite as distant as they had seemed.
4 min |
January 12, 2026
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THE X FACTOR
With six different cohorts now in the workplace, it's now the supposed slacker generation that's quietly running the show – and they're well suited to the task
6 min |
January 12, 2026
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PM could send military to Greenland on Nato mission
Sir Keir Starmer is considering sending British troops to Greenland as Donald Trump’s rhetoric over snatching the Danish territory continues to ratchet up.
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January 12, 2026
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Defence spending lost to MoD overdraft, warns chief
The former head of the RAF has warned that increased defence spending in the UK is being “eaten up by the Ministry of Defence (MoD)’s overdraft” with the UK’s military footprint shrinking at a critical moment.
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January 12, 2026
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Wegovy to launch stronger dose weight-loss jabs in UK
The UK's medicines regulator has approved a stronger dose of the weight loss jab Wegovy as demand for the drug is set to soar.
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January 12, 2026
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Big Pharma bloodsuckers get rich from nit merry-go-round
Whenever I drop into a local pharmacy in Notting Hill, the staff look at me with huge sympathy. “Not again?”
4 min |
January 12, 2026
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Tehran threatens retaliatory strikes on US military bases
Iran has threatened to attack US military targets if Donald Trump launches strikes over the country’s growing protests.
4 min |
January 12, 2026
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Tears are not enough in this Shakespearean fan fiction
Poised to sweep Oscar season, Chloé Zhao's 'Hamnet' is less a masterpiece than a blunt spade designed to whack you over the head until you weep from the pain
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