85 minutes ago Keir Starmer played the China card in Rio – and sent a message to a hawkish Donald Trump | Simon Tisdall

The PM and other western leaders are cosying up to Beijing. If the president-elect imposes punitive tariffs on Chinese imports, he will give Xi the upper handBoth were lawyers before they became politicians, but that’s where the similarities between Keir Starmer and Richard Nixon end. The former US president resigned in disgrace at the height of the Watergate corruption scandal exactly 50 years ago. Britain’s prime minister may have been unwise to accept free tickets from Arsenal FC – but he’s not in Nixon’s league.Except, perhaps, was there just a touch of Tricky Dicky about Starmer’s meeting with China’s president, Xi Jinping, at last week’s G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro? Watergate aside, Nixon is famous for his groundbreaking 1972 visit to Beijing, which opened the way to normalised r...

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86 minutes ago Trump’s Cabinet and staff tracker: Here’s who is among the White House appointments so far

Here is who Donald Trump has chosen to fill key cabinet positions in his second administration

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88 minutes ago DAN HODGES: Out of touch Starmer should be talking to furious farmers and freezing pensioners

So, Sir Keir Starmer has finally decided to grace us with his presence. After another week of globe-trotting, he flew back to a sub-zero Britain.

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89 minutes ago Major Metrolink disruption across the network following points failure

Severe delays in place across the tram network until further notice

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1 hour ago PETER HITCHENS: Our deadbeat leaders are marching us towards chaos. Why on earth do we trust them on war in Ukraine?

Do you have confidence in our leaders on tax, health, policing, farming, immigration, sleaze, housing, education or transport? So why trust them on war in Ukraine?

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1 hour ago Man charged with attempted murder after bus attack leaves victim fighting for life in Brixton

Detectives do not believe any weapons were used in the incident but police enquiries are ongoing

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1 hour ago Major UK supermarket wants to bring in 'facial recognition' to stop 'very real threat'

Richard Walker, the boss of Iceland, confirmed on Linkedin that he would 'happily' give facial recognition a trial in his stores, as long as it was 'legal and proportionate'

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2 hours ago ‘A few inches of snow in November? It's child's play compared to 1963’s Big Freeze’

Fleet Street legend and Mirror columnist, Paul Routledge, sends gentle tales from his West Yorkshire allotment, Mrs R’s pantry and his local, the Old White Bear. This week, Paul is surprised to see his hometown has made the national weather forecast

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2 hours ago Who are the shellsuit boys in image that captures the 1980s? New Tate Britain show solves mystery

Friends who posed for celebrated photographer Ingrid Pollard in 1989 are reunited for new picture 35 years laterIn 1989, three 15-year-olds, dressed in identical shellsuits and trainers, posed for a photo to commemorate the imminent closure of their south London school. It was one of 24 photos taken that day by Ingrid Pollard, an up-and-coming photographer in her mid-30s, who simply stored the contact prints away in a box at home.“From time to time, I would wonder what happened to those boys, particularly the ones in their shellsuits, because it was a very special photo,” said Pollard, who last month received the prestigious Hasselblad award, the top international photography prize. Continue reading...

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