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Musk: Nigel Farage ‘doesn’t have what it takes’ to lead Reform
Elon Musk has waded even deeper into British politics, using his X platform to declare that Reform UK needs a new leader.
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Musk ‘upset’ Farage didn’t endorse his support for Tommy Robinson
We spoke to Marc Owen Jones, who’s an Associate Professor of Media Analytics at Northwestern University in Qatar and an expert on disinformation.
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Snow and ice causes trouble across parts of England
Heavy snow and freezing rain have caused travel chaos up and down the country. Some areas reached minus 11 Celsius, and a rare amber health alert is in place for all of England until Wednesday.
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Domestic violence and football: ‘I still won’t watch a match’
Football is a source of joy for many, but anger at a team losing, fuelled by alcohol, can turn it into a source of fear for others.
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New British Sign Language allows people to talk about climate crisis
The weather might be cold right now, but 2024 was the hottest year on record, after the 1.5 celsius warming limit was breached.
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Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire in Lebanon appears to be largely holding
A ceasefire in Lebanon this week but Israel appears to have stepped up its bombardment across Gaza.
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Daniel Khalife: Former British soldier who escaped prison found guilty of spying for Iran
A former soldier who escaped from Wandsworth Prison, while awaiting trial, has been found guilty of spying for Iran.
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How will MPs vote on assisted dying bill on Friday?
Tomorrow, MPs must decide which side to take in one of the most significant debates they will face in this parliament – whether to allow assisted dying for terminally ill adults.
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‘We have witnessed another genocidal war crime’ – Ukrainian MP on fresh Russian attacks
We spoke to Maria Mezentseva, who is a Ukrainian politician from President Zelenskyy’s Servant of the People party.
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Russia launches massive attack on Ukraine’s power grid
President Putin has threatened to target Ukraine’s decision-making centres with Russia’s new ballistic missile and turn them into dust.
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Public concerned about lack of control over asylum, says think tank director
We spoke to Sunder Katwala, Director of British Future, a non-partisan think tank that works on immigration and integration issues.
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‘Latest net migration figures are too high’, says former head of UK border control
We spoke to the former head of UK border control, Tony Smith.
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UK net migration hits record 906,000 in year to June 2023
It was already a record high, but revised figures show net migration actually peaked in 2023 at a quarter of a million more than first thought.
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Exclusive: Harshita Brella sent WhatsApps in distress before she was murdered
The 24-year-old was found dead in the boot of a car in east London on 14 November, with her husband Pankaj Lamba named as the prime suspect in her killing.
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Mother of man imprisoned in Egypt urges Foreign Secretary to do more
The British mother of a man who’s being held as a political prisoner in Egypt has met the Foreign Secretary David Lammy – urging him to press for her son’s release.
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Irish election: inside Dublin central’s colourful race
Irish voters are heading to the polls on Friday to elect a new Government, with the two centre parties which have run the country for more than a century and been in coalition together for the past 4 years – vying to stay in power.
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Slowing down EV transition a ‘recipe for job losses’, says ECIU
Colin Walker is head of transport at the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit.
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Electric car crisis: Government to review rules after backlash
The government has promised to look again at how it plans to phase out petrol and diesel vehicles, following complaints from the motor industry that current proposals are too stringent and too expensive.
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Former hospital chief told Lucy Letby ‘we’ve got your back’
An inquiry has heard that the former chief executive of the hospital where Lucy Letby murdered seven babies told her “we’ve got your back” in an attempt to calm her family.
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‘Every chance’ Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire will hold, says former US ambassador
Ambassador David Satterfield, served as Joe Biden’s Special Envoy for Middle East Humanitarian issues in addressing the crisis in Gaza.
