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Labour must embrace the spirit of post-war Britain

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New Statesman

Ben Glover

White Christmas: why cocaine is everywhere in December

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New Statesman

Max Daly

19 Best Albums From 2025 To Listen To Before The End Of The Year

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HuffPost

Daniel Welsh

The Juiciest, Oddest, And Most Viral Reddit Dramas Of 2025

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HuffPost

Amy Glover

Adulthood Starts After 30 And The Three Other 'Brain Eras' We Get

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HuffPost

Sarah-Louise Kelly

Yes, Optimists Really Can Live Longer Lives

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HuffPost

Sarah-Louise Kelly

Man escapes jail for cocaine-fuelled harassment of ex-girlfriend

Man escapes jail for cocaine-fuelled harassment of ex-girlfriend

A man threatened to put a brick through his ex-girlfriend's skull and blow her house up in a string of threatening messages.

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Eastern Daily Press

Peter Walsh

Experts Predict The Popular Travel Destinations Of 2026

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HuffPost

Caroline Bologna

Trump's Favorite Spokesperson Has Major Family News

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HuffPost

Kelby Vera

This 1 Big Concern About Raising Boys Didn't Really Exist 30 Years Ago

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HuffPost

Brittany Wong

I Spent 48 Hours In Ukraine's Most 'Western' City Where Tourism Is Rising

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HuffPost

Thomas Horn

'We must not be the Tory party 2.0': Nigel Farage on his plans for power

'We must not be the Tory party 2.0': Nigel Farage on his plans for power

Nigel Farage is signing football shirts when I arrive at Reform’s campaign headquarters in Millbank Tower, the building where New Labour prepared...

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The Spectator

Tim Shipman

Why pubs shouldn't ban Labour MPs

Why pubs shouldn't ban Labour MPs

In Britain’s public houses, a rebellion is brewing. Landlords, hit hard by the Labour government’s fiscal measures – higher employer National...

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The Spectator

Rory Hanrahan

How Badenoch bounced back

How Badenoch bounced back

One of the origin stories about Kemi Badenoch’s career as politician is that, while waiting to be interviewed as candidate for Saffron Walden, she...

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The Spectator

Robin Ashenden

Fishing fight / The battle for Antarctic krill is about to get uglier

Fishing fight / The battle for Antarctic krill is about to get uglier

Krill – the small, shrimp-like crustacean – is a keystone species. It underpins the marine ecosystem of the Southern Ocean, where it is estimated...

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The Spectator

Klaus Dodds

Trump is shamelessly covering America in his name

Trump is shamelessly covering America in his name

In 2011, Donald Trump published a book with the self-help guru Robert Kiyosaki titled Midas Touch. It’s a typical self-empowerment manual in which...

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The Guardian

Mohamad Bazzi

England's Ashes Test triumph is long overdue

England's Ashes Test triumph is long overdue

England have just won the fourth Test match against Australia by four wickets. In a bizarre, low-scoring game at Melbourne that was completed...

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The Spectator

Jim Lawley

Why humans should be more like hedgehogs

People used to seek sun, fresh air and respite — but we have forgotten the lost art of convalescence at our peril

10

Financial Times

Camilla Cavendish

Compulsive tracking doesn’t measure what really counts

Centuries of the subtle craft of measurement have given way to gadgets that spew numbers

10

Financial Times

Guru Madhavan

Christmas Day in lonely central London

10

New Statesman

Finn Mcredmond

Meet the Healy-Raes, the Irish court jesters who have the last laugh

10

New Statesman

Kate Demolder

4. The fakery of Meghan Markle’s Netflix show

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New Statesman

Rachel Cooke

Trump’s vicious presidency looks more beatable by the day

Trump’s vicious presidency looks more beatable by the day

This was the year Donald Trump returned triumphantly to the White House, bathed himself in praise, bent US institutions to his will, bullied...

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iNews

Sarah Baxter

China isn’t just dumping cheap goods anymore — it’s sending caviar

The country is taking a huge bite out of the European and US market with ever-growing production of luxury foods

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Financial Times

Gillian Tett

We are all le Carré’s people now

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New Statesman

Phil Tinline

Black economic empowerment has failed — except on the rugby pitch

South Africa’s government could learn a great deal about transformation from the success of the Springboks

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Financial Times

David Pilling

The year in patriarchy: Taylor Swift’s engagement, Trump 2.0 and the Epstein files

The year in patriarchy: Taylor Swift’s engagement, Trump 2.0 and the Epstein files

The year 2025 would have been far better if we could have sent a few billionaires and world leaders into intergalactic exile. Instead, we had to...

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The Guardian

Arwa Mahdawi

The relentless rise of YouTube

As well as being the dominant platform in podcasting and having a growing presence in live sport, it is now the leader in TV and streaming in the US

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Financial Times

The Big Read

2025: a year in political cartoons – from a Bond-villain Trump to a toppled prince

2025: a year in political cartoons – from a Bond-villain Trump to a toppled prince

In a year in which I’ve drawn too many cartoons about powerful people acting with impunity, the fall of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor stood out to me...

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The Guardian

Martin Rowson

Silent night / Christmas and the luxury of fallow time

Silent night / Christmas and the luxury of fallow time

Christmas is now a festival of family and overeating, yet it keeps its pockets of quiet reflection, even for those for whom the sacred has slipped...

30

The Spectator

Druin Burch

The malaise of multilateralism

A reboot of the UN and nimbler forms of co-operation are necessary

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Financial Times

The Editorial Board

The hill I will die on: Online shops, please, I beg – stop with endless post-purchase emails

The hill I will die on: Online shops, please, I beg – stop with endless post-purchase emails

When I buy something online, I don’t want to receive more than two emails: one to confirm my order has been received, and another to tell me when...

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The Guardian

Athena Kugblenu

Year in a word: 6-7

Generation Alpha’s ubiquitous watchword is beyond the reach of semantics

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Financial Times

Caroline Binham

ALEX WATSON: What I learned at The Courier Roadshow in Stirling

People living in and around Stirling understand the value of local news. That’s what I found myself thinking as I looked around a bustling Albert...

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The Courier

Alex Watson

Trump's 'Liberation Day' Tariffs Worked — They Liberated Americans From Their Jobs

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HuffPost

S.v. Date

Bollards / How terrorism changed Christmas

Bollards / How terrorism changed Christmas

Christmas is traditionally a time of joy, merriment and peace on Earth. Not so in the little town of Erbach, Germany, this year, where depraved...

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The Spectator

Clarissa Hard

Year in a word: Stablecoins

In spite of efforts to bring it into the mainstream, the cryptocurrency remains one step removed from money

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Financial Times

Bryce Elder

Step forward the undeserving: it’s honours season again

Step forward the undeserving: it’s honours season again

Once Christmas Day’s out of the way and we’re stuck in that no man’s land between one year and the next – known, tweely, as ‘Twixmas’ or, if you’re...

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The Spectator

G.v. Chappell

A conversation between Joe Rogan and Mel Gibson summed up 2025 for me – and not in a good way

A conversation between Joe Rogan and Mel Gibson summed up 2025 for me – and not in a good way

Looking back on this crazy year, one event, right at the start, seems to me to encapsulate the whole. In January, recording his podcast in a studio...

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The Guardian

George Monbiot