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

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Daniel Welsh

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

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Amy Glover

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

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Brittany Wong

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

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Thomas Horn

Britain doesn't need to become great again – it already is

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Piotr Wilczek

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

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Martin Rowson

How Badenoch bounced back

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Robin Ashenden

Silent night / Christmas and the luxury of fallow time

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Druin Burch

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

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Tim Shipman

Step forward the undeserving: it’s honours season again

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G.v. Chappell

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

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Klaus Dodds

Bollards / How terrorism changed Christmas

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Clarissa Hard

We are all le Carré’s people now

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Phil Tinline

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

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Kate Demolder

Trump’s vicious presidency looks more beatable by the day

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Sarah Baxter

Year in a word: 6-7

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

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Caroline Binham

The malaise of multilateralism

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

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The Editorial Board

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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David Pilling

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

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Camilla Cavendish

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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Gillian Tett

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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The Big Read

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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Bryce Elder

Compulsive tracking doesn’t measure what really counts

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

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Guru Madhavan

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

The Courier reporters gathered in Stirling to meet readers and discuss issues.

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Alex Watson

Why pubs shouldn't ban Labour MPs

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Rory Hanrahan

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

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George Monbiot

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

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