22 h. ago Win a copy of The Chalet Girl by Victoria Prince in this week’s Fabulous book competition

GET ready for fun and frolics in the snow! To escape her broken heart, Emmeline takes a nannying job on the slopes of posh Swiss resort Kristalldorf – the only problem is, she can’t ski. But that doesn’t stop her meeting wealthy yet enigmatic Tristan, and soon she’s immersed in a world of Dom Pérignon,...

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47 h. ago ‘His impact is huge’: Arteta hails Rice’s attacking evolution before Chelsea test

Head coach backs midfielder to improve furtherArsenal visit second-placed Chelsea on SundayMikel Arteta is confident the best is to come from Declan Rice as Arsenal prepare for their top-of-the-table showdown at Chelsea on Sunday.The England midfielder was outstanding in Arsenal’s victories against Tottenham and Bayern Munich over the past week and will face the club where he spent seven years before being released aged 14. Arsenal lead second-placed Chelsea by Continue reading...

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52 h. ago Antisemitism allegations against the teenage Farage matter – look at what he went on to do | Jonathan Freedland

Farage has cosied up to US figures who espoused conspiracy theories about Jews. That kind of talk is becoming alarmingly mainstream on the Maga right Nigel Farage could have strangled this story at birth. Confronted with the testimony of more than 20 former schoolmates, who shared with the Guardian their memories of a young Farage taunting Jews and other minorities in the most appalling terms – telling a Jewish pupil that “Hitler was right”, singing “Gas ’em all” and making a hissing sound to simulate lethal gas – he could have said: “I have no memory of what’s been described, but such behaviour would of course have been atrocious and if I was involved in any way, I am genuinely sorry.”Sure, it would have been more of an “ifpology” than an apology, its admission of guilt wholly conditional, but it would surely have closed the story down. Reassured that the Reform UK leader had declared racist and antisemitic abuse unacceptable, most observers would have allowed that these events too...

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6 d. ago Judge throws out Comey and James cases as Trump's beauty queen prosecutor is humiliated

President Donald Trump's revenge plot against James Comey might be foiled. 

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9 d. ago Mike Johnson plots revenge for Epstein files humiliation with ‘higher threshold’ rules change in Congress : report

Still licking his wounds after a handful of rogue Republicans forced his and Donald Trump’s hands on Epstein files vote, the House speaker has a plan for handling future petitions

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1 week ago Emmerdale star Isabel Hodgins praised by fans after pregnancy update

Emmerdale's Victoria Sugden star has explained her weight training routine at 28 weeks pregnant

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2 w. ago Trump can get away with saying what he likes about the BBC. But Epstein? That’s his one vulnerability | Jonathan Freedland

In attacking a vital broadcaster, the US president is once again holding others to standards he flouts. But the Maga faithful might not let his links to the disgraced financier goTo confront Donald Trump is to engage in asymmetric warfare. It is to enter a battlefield that is not level, where he enjoys an immediate and in-built advantage over those who would oppose him or merely hold him to account. That fact has cost Democrats dearly over the past decade – exacting a toll again this very week – but it has now upended an institution central to Britain’s national life: namely, the BBC.The key asymmetry can be spelled out simply. Trump pays little or no regard to the conventional bounds of truth or honesty. His documented tally of false or misleading statements runs into the tens of thousands: the Washington Post registered 30,573 such statements during Trump’s first term in the White House, an average of 21 a day. In a single interview with CBS’s 60 Minutes earlier this month, Trump ...

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2 w. ago Adam Peaty’s mum takes fresh swipe at son as she breaks silence after wedding ban and not being invited to Holly’s hen

ADAM Peaty’s mum has taken another swipe at her son, after she was banned from his wedding and not invited to Holly Ramsay’s hen party.  While Adam’s mum Caroline was absent from Holly’s celebrations at Soho Farmhouse, Oxfordshire, at the weekend, the bride’s mum Tana and close family friend Victoria Beckham were in attendance, while...

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2 w. ago How Denmark and Greece are plotting for Scotland as spying mission signed off with World Cup revenge on the menu

It's a monumental week for Scotland as Steve Clarke's team face a double-header that could send us straight to the World Cup in the summer

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2 w. ago Holly Ramsay morphs into her mother! She was once the image of her father Gordon, but after a glamorous bridal glow

Gordon Ramsay 's daughter was a striking copy of her glamorous mother Tana as shared the glitzy photos from her hen do this weekend - which featured A-listers including Victoria Beckham .

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3 w. ago Holly Ramsay wows in a £1,450 mini dress as she shares more snaps from her lavish hen weekend at Soho Farmhouse with A

The influencer, 25, was also joined by her mum Tana, sisters Megan and Tilly, and fiancé Adam Peaty's sister Bethany.

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3 w. ago Democrats should celebrate this week’s victories, but beware: Trump is already plotting his revenge | Jonathan Freedland

The Maga machine is clicking into gear to ensure that defeat is all but impossible in next year’s midterm electionsAfter the joy, the trepidation. Or at least the preparation. Democrats, along with many others around the world, cheered this week’s wins in a clutch of off-year elections that saw Donald Trump’s Republicans defeated from sea to shining sea. But now they need to brace themselves for the reaction. Because Donald Trump does not like losing. And he will do everything he can to ensure it does not happen again – by means fair and, more often, foul. Indeed, that effort is already under way.For now, the Democrats are still clinking glasses, enjoying a success that tastes all the sweeter for coming exactly a year after they lost everything – the House, the Senate and the White House – to a returning and triumphant Trump. The most dramatic win was Zohran Mamdani’s history-making victory in America’s most populous city, New York, but there was success too at the other end of the ...

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3 w. ago Mamdani’s mayoral race was marred by unhinged Islamophobia. It’s not going away soon | Arwa Mahdawi

The racist abuse that Zohran Mamdani is still facing proves how normalized bigotry is. We need to keep calling it outPack your bags and flee, infidels: New York City has fallen to a cabal of socialist jihadists. With Zohran Mamdani to become the city’s first Muslim mayor, many are celebrating the democratic socialist’s historic win. Billionaires, Islamophobes and Republicans, however, are in the throes of hysteria. But what’s new? The New York mayoral race has been marred by bigotry so unhinged it’s almost impossible to parody.Far-right activist and unofficial Trump adviser Laura Loomer posted on X, for example, that “there will be another 9/11 in NYC” under Mamdani. New York City councilmember Vickie Paladino called the 34-year-old a “known jihadist terrorist”. Actor Debra Messing, meanwhile, has been having a Mamdani-induced meltdown on Instagram, posting story after story about how the puppy-eyed politician is a threat to civilization. She recently posted: “In Judaism and Christi...

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3 w. ago Trump administration cutting flights at 40 airports amid longest government shutdown in history: Live updates

Trump said public anger over shutdown was behind Democratic victories in elections in parts of the country earlier this week

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3 w. ago Mob boss Steven Lyons plots revenge attack on Daniel clan after Spain murders

Underworld sources say mob boss Steven 'Bonzo' Lyons is 'consumed with bloodlust' after his brother and best friend were gunned down in a bar in Fuengirola

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3 w. ago Mob boss Steven Lyons plots revenge attack on Daniel clan after brutal Spain shootings

The head of the Lyons family blames the Daniel clan for the death of his brother and best friend.

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3 w. ago David Beckham finally embraces the greys as he ditches the hair dye to receive long

Just a few weeks ago at the premiere of his wife Victoria's Netflix documentary series, he had a slightly longer, much darker do.

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3 w. ago Erik ten Hag plots 'revenge' as Wolves offer him Premier League return after Man Utd spell

Beleaguered manager is ready to revive his reputation back in England

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last month Democrats should be taking the fight to Trump – the problem is, he’s got them battling each other | Jonathan Freedland

Elections across the US next week should be easy pickings for the opposition. But they’re finding it hard to beat a player who breaks all the rulesEvery year is election year in the US, but the contests of 2025, which reach their climax on Tuesday, will be especially revealing. These “off-year” battles – a smattering of governors’ races, statewide referendums and the election of a new mayor in the country’s biggest city – will tell us much about the national mood 12 months after Americans returned Donald Trump to the White House and one year before midterm contests that could reshape the US political landscape. Above all, though, they will reveal the division, the confusion and sheer discombobulation Trump has induced in the US’s party of opposition.The verdict on Trump’s first 10 months in office will be delivered most clearly in the two states set to choose a new governor: New Jersey and Virginia. By rights, these should be relatively easy wins for the Democrats. Both states voted...

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