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Nigel Farage speaking at a podium.
Farage to challenge Starmer to ‘connect with working people’

The Reform UK leader is seeking to capitalise on his party’s rising popularity by launching his ‘biggest direct attack yet’ on the prime minister

Politics

I never want to be Labour leader, Angela Rayner claims

Starmer’s deputy lays to rest any rumours that she wishes to replace him, insisting her ‘desire is to deliver for the people of this country’




Soccer player scoring a goal.
Emery apoplectic as referee’s decision ends Champions League hopes

Manchester United 2 Aston Villa 0: Rogers goal controversially ruled out as Diallo and Eriksen secure win after Martínez red card




A man joyfully jumps on a re-nationalised train.
All aboard the first Great British Railways trip: a replacement bus

Portrait of Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason in a red dress.
‘My daughter was told classical music is for white people’

J.K. Rowling at the European premiere of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
Feud between JK Rowling and barrister fires up social media

A man joyfully jumps on a re-nationalised train.
All aboard the first Great British Railways trip: a replacement bus





Illustration of a stressed man working on his laptop, with a Netflix logo on a TV in the background and a silhouette of another person working.
Watching Netflix while WFH? Not with virtual co-working spaces


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GIF of two women exiting a black car.
Memos show Badenoch was warned on car choice

As business secretary, the Tory leader is said to have argued with her official driver and made other arrangements despite security concerns


Photo of the Lady T fishing vessel in port.






Man jumping into a pool with a flamingo floatie.

Now he’s retired from diving (probably), what’s next for the five-times Olympic medallist?

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World



Photos of Stanislav (8), Tamara (12), and Roman (17), three siblings killed in Ukraine.
Largest Russian strike since start of war kills 14 across Ukraine

President Zelensky says the ‘silence of America’ is encouraging President Putin


Three women eating snails at a snail festival.
The ultimate slow food: Catalans unite to celebrate the humble snail


Portrait of Nora Bouazzouni.
Threats, violence and culture of silence: the unsavoury side of French cuisine

Illustration of an NYPD officer looking at a cityscape of New York with Bitcoin in the foreground.
Crypto investor ‘kidnapped Italian tourist to steal bitcoin’


Portrait of Terrence Floyd, brother of George Floyd.
George Floyd’s legacy: fight against racism in era of woke backlash




Self-flagellating over the British Empire helps no one but our rivals

Spurious guilt over our history leads to decisions such as the Chagos Islands giveaway. Honestly, it wasn’t all bad



Illustration of politicians struggling in a small boat during a storm.

Cartoon by Morten Morland



a man in a suit and blue shirt looks at the camera
Starvation is Russia’s favourite weapon






a man in a suit and blue shirt looks at the camera
Starvation is Russia’s favourite weapon







Headshot of Tanya Byron.
Professor Tanya ByronI lead a double life where I enter a fantasy world every day


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Illustration of a lightbulb with an upward arrow inside a yellow circle.
Hannah PrevettI was fired from my bank job — then I built a £100m beauty empire




Soccer player scoring a goal.

Manchester United 2 Aston Villa 0: Rogers goal controversially ruled out as Diallo and Eriksen secure win after Martínez red card






Chelsea's Levi Colwill scoring a goal.
Wood misses costly as Forest’s thrilling season ends with tinge of regret
Football
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Georgia Tennant in a pink satin suit.
Georgia Tennant: ‘My husband David played my dad — I dine out on that’
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Money




Sebastiao Salgado standing in front of a large black and white photograph of penguins and seals.
Sebastião Salgado, photographer who captured all shades of humanity


Patrick O’Flynn, Eurosceptic journalist and politician


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