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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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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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Watch Americano in full
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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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The polite applause – lukewarm and sporadic might be better words – awarded to Badenoch contrasts somewhat awkwardly with the adulation which seems to greet Andy Burnham wherever he goes at the moment. It is not that there was anything wrong with what Badenoch had to say. She
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With several weeks to go before Burnham can officially put his name down to succeed Starmer as prime minister, his camp has given no indication yet whether he will keep Jarvis in place as Defence Secretary or offer the job to someone else. Along with his appointments to the
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On this week's Quite right! podcast: As Keir Starmer resigns after less than two years in office, Michael and Madeline ask what really brought his premiership to an end. Was Starmer simply overtaken by events, or did his downfall reveal something deeper: a disdain for
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This dearth of evidence is no accident. As Baroness Cass observes in her own review, it is because gender services treating children globally have failed to investigate long-term outcomes. The first NHS study into 'early pubertal suppression in a carefully selected group of
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Scores of Sharia councils operate across England and Wales. Can this really be described as integration? The training module goes on to suggest a list of ways to boost ‘inclusion’ by, for instance, providing halal catering options. It never ceases to amaze me that in a country
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What exactly are 'Labour values'? Late-era Starmer could get quite emotional – as far as he was able to – about them, stating, 'We’re on the side of communities across our country,’ whatever that means. In his resignation statement, he told us how he'd been 'building a country
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Peter Murrell has been jailed for five years and three months for embezzling more than £400,000 from the SNP. The judge called it a "calculated crime of dishonesty" and a serious breach of trust. However, Michael Simmons, The Spectator's economics editor, says there are
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