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The Walthamstow parliamentarian is looking for someone who can help her ‘make change happen’.

✍️ Steerpike
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Stella Creasy’s bizarre job advert
Labour MP Stella Creasy is hiring for a senior campaigns manger, and the job specifications are quite something
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December 9, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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From grooming gangs to maternity safety to unsafe housing, the intrays of Whitehall are groaning under ‘recommendations’.

✍️ Isabel Hardman
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From grooming gangs to maternity safety: how the British state is failing
From grooming gangs to maternity safety to unsafe housing, the intrays of Whitehall are groaning under various recommendations
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December 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Babies and women should not die because of poor care.

✍️ Druin Burch

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Understanding the NHS maternity crisis is vital
Mistakes, failures, and poor communication will haunt even our best efforts, but babies and women should not die because of poor care.
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December 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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But after years of Plaid Cymru propping up Welsh Labour governments, it looks likely that the situation is about to be reversed.

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Plaid and Welsh Labour strike Senedd deal
December is a time for spirits aplenty. But has the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come visited early this year? Over in Cardiff Bay, it seems that a deal has been struck to pass a budget in the Welsh…
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December 9, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Badenoch delivered some tough love for the nation’s youth whom, she suggested, were responsible for Britain’s stagnation.

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Badenoch takes aim at Britain’s youth
Christmas is nearly upon us – but there is no sign that Kemi Badenoch is ready to enjoy a rest. The Leader of the Opposition this morning held her second London press conference in as many days. The…
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December 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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If officialdom had done what voters have begged it to, and properly policed our borders, these young men might not have made it here.

✍️ Brendan O’Neill

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Why were these Afghan rapists even in Britain?
If officialdom had done what voters have begged it to, and properly policed our borders, these young men might not have made it here
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December 9, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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He produced 3,517 intelligence reports.

✍️ Max Jeffery

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Who was ‘Stakeknife’?
Stakeknife has been accused of being involved in the ‘worst possible’ crimes, including 14 murders and 15 abductions.
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December 9, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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On Coffee House Shots, Keir Starmer hosted the French President and the German Chancellor.

And Donald Trump’s positions unsettle allies.

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Is a Ukraine peace deal inching closer?
This week Keir Starmer hosted the French President and the German Chancellor in Downing Street as the E3 moved closer to a landmark agreement: seizing around €100 billion in frozen Russian assets to…
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December 9, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Fuentes thrives on provocation, and his method is not to win the argument but to distort its shape. Over time, Morgan began to slip.

✍️ Jonathan Sacerdoti

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Piers Morgan fell into Nick Fuentes’s trap
When Michael Gove introduced me to Piers Morgan last week at the Spectator Christmas reception, Morgan seized my hand and beamed, ‘I know Jonathan. We’re old friends.’ This was generous of him, not…
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December 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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The BBC itself has faced fury from its own staff over the onetime presenter.

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Huw Edwards slammed over social media headshot
To Huw Edwards, who has resurfaced on social media to post a professionally shot black-and-white portrait in what some assume is a bid to rehabilitate himself. But it will take the former BBC star…
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December 9, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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What makes every plotter think they are the special one who can break this cycle?

✍️ Gareth Roberts

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Why Labour’s plotters are doomed to fail
Rewatching the 1974 version of Murder on the Orient Express the other night, I was struck by the incredible organisational skills of Mrs Harriet Hubbard, played by Lauren Bacall. (Spoilers on the…
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December 9, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Every single one of these horrific crimes is not just a tragedy. Every single one of these crimes is entirely avoidable.

✍️ David Shipley

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The open borders crime scandal
On 10 May this year a 15-year-old girl was with friends near parkland on the outskirts of Leamington Spa. Shortly after 9 p.m. she was separated from those friends and abducted by Jan Jahanzeb, a 17…
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December 9, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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It is time to recognise that the Met’s national responsibilities for leading the police counter-terrorism network are a distraction from their principal role as local crime-fighters.

✍️ David Spencer
Mark Rowley may have blown his chance to reform the Met
As for the Commissioner himself, he has one essential task if the Metropolitan Police is to be effective at fighting crime.
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December 9, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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In one of my schools a boy was caned by his housemaster after a copy of Mein Kampf was found in his locker.

✍️ Nigel Jones
The teenage Farage story misses the point
A first-hand account of 1970s public-school life sheds light on the controversy over Nigel Farage’s alleged teenage comments.
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December 9, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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I’ll be only too happy to pay my £30 and curl up in my sleep pod.

✍️ Alexander Larman
Welcome to the Wetherspoons of hotels
London’s new Zedwell Capsule Hotel offers nearly 1,000 windowless pods from £30 a night. Can they solve the hotel affordability crisis?
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December 9, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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On this week's Table Talk podcast, Tom Gilbey, the internet’s most charismatic wine expert, sits down with Olivia Potts to discuss His new book, Thirsty.

✍️ Olivia Potts
With Tom Gilbey
Tom Gilbey, the internet’s most charismatic wine expert, sits down with Olivia Potts for Table Talk. Tom is a winemaker, merchant, educator – and also an author. His new book, Thirsty, is part-memoir,...
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December 9, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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He gabbled awkwardly about how university and apprenticeships were the same.

✍️ Madeline Grant

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Keir Starmer goes walkies to McLaren
‘Nurse! Nurse! He’s out again!’ That’s right, Sir Keir had escaped his handlers and was mingling with the public once more. This time he was ruining the coffee break of some workers at McLaren to…
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December 8, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Ravec might still decide to maintain the status quo: cue weeping and gnashing of teeth if so.

✍️ Alexander Larman

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Is Harry about to spend a lot more time in Britain?
Ravec has ordered that its risk management board be prepared to reassess Harry’s threat level for the first time since February 2020.
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December 8, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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This is devolution in action. All the powers necessary to transform the health service, none of the political will to make even modest tweaks.

✍️ Lucy Dunn

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Scotland is getting sicker
Scotland’s NHS is in crisis and Scotland’s government is in denial. A new study by the former head of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow presents a grim diagnosis of the nation’s…
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December 8, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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The UK defence sector is one of the most advanced in the world.

✍️ Eliot Wilson

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Is the navy prepared to fend off Russia's underwater threat?
The Royal Navy plans to use this combination of warships, aircraft and sensors to detect and monitor Russian activity.
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December 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Public anger at both Labour and the Tories remains palpable and Farage remains overwhelmingly the greatest beneficiary of the protest vote.

✍️ Tim Shipman

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Has Reform peaked?
The week ends as it began, with Keir Starmer outlining plans to curb child poverty, news that Rachel Reeves won’t face a formal investigation into whether she misled the markets over her Budget,…
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December 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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However Polanski’s comments about why Britain needs migrants have, er, rather raised eyebrows – to put it mildly.

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Watch: Zack Polanski's bizarre migration remarks
To BBC Question Time, where the leader of the Green party made a rather interesting intervention on migration last night. Zack Polanski’s party preaches that billionaires, not Britain’s borders, are…
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December 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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The bookmakers would soon catch on and terminate the accounts. But it didn’t matter.

✍️ Gus Carter

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Inside the world of Reform’s mystery money man
New court documents reveal George Cottrell’s role in high-stakes gambling schemes linked to professional syndicates.
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December 8, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Labour needs to show it has listened – even if that means taking recommendations from its political opponents.

✍️ Lucy Dunn

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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?
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December 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Did West Midlands Police simply make stuff up? It’s difficult to avoid that conclusion.

✍️ Stephen Pollard

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Jewish fans deserve the truth about Maccabi Tel Aviv's Villa Park ban
Did West Midlands Police simply make stuff up to keep Israeli football fans away from Villa Park? It’s difficult to avoid that conclusion
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December 8, 2025 at 3:15 PM