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A China teacup
The spying case looks more like an injustice than a serious threat to national security
2 min |
October 19, 2025
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Mercury prize seals the star power of the loyal 'Geordie Springsteen'
Musician Sam Fender's 'melody-rich and expansive' third album last week claimed the prestigious honour. Andrew Butler analyses the power of his biographical lyrics
3 min |
October 19, 2025
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Northern Ireland's lesson for Gaza
A long-term end to the horror in Gaza is only possible through Palestinian self-determination alongside Israeli security - the internationally agreed foundation for lasting peace since the Oslo Accords, now over 30 years old.
3 min |
October 19, 2025
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More income tax on high earners won't fix things. It's time to limit the Isa allowance
Like most people in their 50s with PhDs in economics, I am in the top 10% of the income distribution.
2 min |
October 19, 2025
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Maga is damaging America's reputation John Major
For most of the postwar years, America has been the rock upon which democracy prospered.
3 min |
October 19, 2025
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To encourage economic growth, the whole system of tax relief for R&D needs a revamp
We can't fix the fiscal mess the UK is in without economic growth.
2 min |
October 19, 2025
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Tay-Tay's Ophelia is positively drowning in highbrow artistic references
It’s well known that pop cyclone Taylor Swift can boost a region’s economy just by performing in it.
2 min |
October 19, 2025
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Without a two-state solution or single state with equal rights, what hope is there?
Can the Gaza ceasefire, shaky though it is, become the harbinger of a wider resolution to the conflict, even of “everlasting peace in the Middle East”, as Donald Trump, never short of admiration for his own dealmaking skills, suggests?
4 min |
October 19, 2025
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Robert Caro
Global leaders attest, no one writes better about power than the great biographer
6 min |
October 19, 2025
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Far-right fans in pitch protest over Gary Neville
Britain First, the far-right extremist group, yesterday claimed credit for a pitch invasion that briefly delayed the League Two game between Salford City and Oldham.
2 min |
October 19, 2025
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KP Law's £1bn suit is a tall order
The £1bn baby powder lawsuit brought last week on behalf of 3,000 people against Johnson & Johnson could prove a turning point in how Britain's legal system holds companies to account.
1 min |
October 19, 2025
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Anyone for padel? No, I hadn't heard of it either
It's loved worldwide and I knew zip about it. Time to get swinging
2 min |
October 19, 2025
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The brain-training firm struggling to remember who it has worked with
Lovebrain claimed a dazzling array of global brands as clients. It wasn't all true - and the booming brain fitness industry is built on rather shaky science
3 min |
October 19, 2025
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Allwyn hopes its lottery deal is a winning ticket
Despite promising revenue from EuroMillions, the UK lotto operator is mired in a court battle over the way it got its licence and beset by complaints about its new gaming terminals
3 min |
October 19, 2025
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ChatGPT spending stalls as AI 'bubble' gets bigger
European spending on ChatGPT has stalled since May, according to an analysis of transaction data by Deutsche Bank.
2 min |
October 19, 2025
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'They can exile us, but can't silence us': the young YouTubers taking on Orbán
Hungary's ruling party and its allies have seized control of the mainstream media, but the video platform is giving journalists a voice.
4 min |
October 19, 2025
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Palestine Action leader wins legal bid to challenge Home Office ban
One of the founders of Palestine Action has been allowed to press ahead with a legal challenge against its ban as a terrorist organisation.
1 min |
October 19, 2025
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A sale of two cities: London and Paris battle to catch the eye of art investors
The UK’s Frieze and, across the Channel, Art Basel, are going head to head for the attention of wealthy global collectors
3 min |
October 19, 2025
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My student loan was paid to someone else
I am a student at Birkbeck and my September maintenance loan was paid into the wrong account — one at Yorkshire Building Society instead of my Starling account.
3 min |
October 19, 2025
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'They lost their bottle': why China spy case never reached courts
Senior legal sources claim that DPP dropped charges against Berry and Cash over fears trial would damage reputation of the Crown Prosecution Service
3 min |
October 19, 2025
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Egypt plays reluctant host to freed Palestinians as it walks diplomatic tightrope
Exiled on release from Israeli jails, detainees are being housed in a hotel resort with restricted access to the outside world, writes Giles Whittell in Cairo
4 min |
October 19, 2025
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Property price premium
The owners of Buckingham Palace, which is valued at around £1bn and sits in council tax band H, paid £1,828 in 2023-24 to the City of Westminster council.
1 min |
October 19, 2025
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Speedy bonuses may help Labour make City buddies
IBGYBG (“I'll be gone, you'll be gone”) was a popular acronym in finance in the years before the 2008 crisis.
1 min |
October 19, 2025
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£30bn and counting: how Labour strategy is zeroing in on property and wealth taxes
A risk-averse government could focus on property and wealth reforms next month as it struggles to establish control of the economy
6 min |
October 19, 2025
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As his uncle is banished, the heir prepares for a downsized monarchy
Prince William has made clear he does not seek the historic trappings or grandeur of alife lived in the royal spotlight
6 min |
October 19, 2025
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'As long as Britain's government pursues pro-Ukraine policies, we will attack them'
In messages exchanged with The Observer, a pro-Russian hacking group pledges to disrupt UK businesses and infrastructure.
4 min |
October 19, 2025
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Trump's ear is the reward for Qatar's long push for soft power
Benjamin Netanyahu had to grovel and Donald Trump's aides had, helpfully, written him a script.
3 min |
October 19, 2025
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Tech billionaire Thiel claims regulators are the 'antichrist'
This autumn, inside the auditorium of San Francisco's Commonwealth Club, Peter Thiel spent four weeks delivering lectures on the antichrist.
2 min |
October 19, 2025
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Titanic director James Cameron is sub tragedy's 'mystery interviewee'
The cause of the lethal implosion of OceanGate’s Titan submersible passenger vessel in 2023 is no longer a mystery since the damning US Coast Guard report in August that blamed its carbon fibre construction.
1 min |
October 19, 2025
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The Macrons, the Maga influencer and the 'trans' Brigitte conspiracy: US judge to hear lawsuit
The French first couple will face rightwing commentator Candace Owens in a Delaware court after her bizarre CIA claims
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