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The 28-year-old gave up reading International Law and Legal Studies as a PhD student at King's College London to run for parliament. Her full name is actually Pyla Lara Bird-Leakey and she is, of course, obsessed with Palestine. Unearthed videos of the qualified English
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Perfection is not to be found and should not be expected. My son's arrival into the world was delayed by a junior doctor's dishonest laziness. Spotting problems, she prevaricated, arranging unnecessary tests that delayed decision-making until her shift finished. Her replacement
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As he prepares his government, prime-minister-in-waiting Andy Burnham has made plenty of expensive promises. He wants money for defence, for taking the utilities back under public control, for tax cuts for pubs and restaurants, and for the reindustrialisation that will, somehow
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On today's Coffee House Shots podcast: Supercharged by a by-election victory in Aberdeen South and Starmer's resignation, Kemi Badenoch delivered a drive-by at PMQs today. She took aim at members of Starmer's cabinet in succession: Rachel Reeves, Ed Miliband and Bridget
Kemi Badenoch’s victory lap
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This was when Badenoch started to get really personal. She said Starmer was being generous 'to stick by his ministers, because they didn't stick by him'. She added: 'To be fair, they're not all traitors and deserters. Some of his cabinet have been loyal. Loyal and incompetent.
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The Education Secretary, who looked devastated as she was rounded on by Badenoch in the chamber, later said: 'Kemi lost her head at PMQs – and afterwards too. It's not the first time. She's compared me to a Gestapo officer. 'I wonder what it is about a working class woman
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Once again, a United Nations body has accused Israel of the gravest crimes imaginable: this time, the deliberate murder of children. And once again, when you actually open the report, the evidence simply isn’t there. The UN’s Independent International Commission of Inquiry has
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A new round of Iran-US peace talks are taking place in Switzerland, focused on enforcing the ceasefire, the Strait of Hormuz, and sanctions relief. Victor Davis Hanson warns that when Iran's internet comes back on and its citizens learn the true cost of the conflict, the regime
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Mayor Zohran Mamdani endorsed three fellow socialists in the New York City Democratic Congressional primaries and all three won last night. Democratic incumbent Dan Goldman lost to Brad Lander, who was a member of the Democratic Socialists of America until 2023. DSA Member
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To paraphrase Mrs Merton's legendary question to Debbie McGee, 'what first attracted Nigel Farage to Thai-based billionaire Christopher Harborne?'. Ever since details of the crypto mogul's £5 million gift to Farage emerged, the Reform leader has seemed remarkably reluctant to
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It was a short email, like many of the death threats this British Jewish doctor has received. Subject: 'Legitimate target.' Body: 'May I find you walking the streets of London. I'll put a bullet through that Zionist face of yours.'. These sorts of threats are regularly passed to
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"They're going to have to send in ground troops or take out the regime" Are critics right that the Middle East conflict has humiliated America? JD Vance has returned from more peace talks with Iran, but military historian Victor Davis Hanson tells Freddy Gray that to limit
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The President ordered that a new blue coating be applied to the pool's base, which has already started flaking. In a testy exchange with CBS's Ed O'Keefe yesterday, Trump said that the contractors who installed the new surface were not to blame. "We had vandalism," he said.
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