7 h. ago Nigel Farage has 1.3m followers on TikTok. Does this mean gen Z likes him? | Zoe Williams

He is the most popular UK politician on one of the world’s most popular social media sites. Working out what that means is actually surprisingly difficultThere’s a famous clip that still does the rounds on social media, which is weird, because it’s Russia Today, hardly regular viewing, it happened in 2017, a fairly long time ago, and it was on the show Sam Delaney’s News Thing, which was never appointment viewing. In it, Nigel Farage is ceremonially knighted by a girl of about seven, who then says: “My mummy says you hate foreigners.” Delaney cuts in, “No no no, little girl”, and Nige falls about laughing, because good old Nigel, he’s always game for a laugh.Pause on whether or not Farage hates foreigners; the reason I can do an impression of the little girl is that every teenager I know is pitch perfect on all three parts – the girl, Delaney, Farage. Whenever people say, “Is it bad that Nigel Farage is the only politician my kids have heard of? Should I worry?”, I try in vain to th...

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14 h. ago Girl falls 50ft from Disney Cruise while posing for photo near railing

The mystery around the girl's fall from the Disney Cruise ship has been solved. Authorities have confirmed she accidentally fell in after she was asked to pose next to the railing

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7 d. ago Holiday park sued for £1m after girl left brain damaged in fall

A popular Cornish holiday park is facing a High Court claim worth more than £1 million after a young girl has been left brain damaged in a horror accident on its grounds.

Economics

1 week ago Mum's heartbreaking tribute to her 'beautiful baby girl' who died after falling ill at school

'I don't know what life will look like now'

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1 week ago Mother of ‘beautiful’ girl, 8, who died after falling ill at school pays heartbreaking tribute

‘You were wanted, admired and absolutely adored,’ devastated mother said

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1 week ago Girl, 4, suffers traumatic brain injury after falling off wall at popular holiday park as mother takes fight to court

THE family of a four-year-old girl who suffered a traumatic brain injury after falling off a wall at a popular holiday park is now taking their fight to court. The young girl's mother has launched a High Court claim for more than £1million against the park's owners. The claim is on behalf of her now...

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1 week ago Girl, 12, killed after 'being crushed under fallen tree branch for two hours'

Brooke Wiggins, aged 12, was playing with friends and using a rope swing in Banstead, Surrey, when the branch snapped and she died after being crushed by the tree, a court heard

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2 w. ago Girl, 12, killed when she was ‘crushed under fallen tree branch for up to two hours’

A 12-YEAR-OLD girl died when a fallen tree branch crushed her while playing with pals, an inquest heard. Brooke Wiggins was having fun on a rope swing when tragedy struck in Banstead, Surrey on November 9 last year. Paramedics were called to the scene, near the junction with Carshalton Road, after the horror unfolded. It...

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2 w. ago Ana de Armas poses with a mystery man in Paris... as she has not been seen with beau Tom Cruise in 10 weeks

They were supposed to be filming the movie Deeper together over the summer in London and Malta, but there is no sign that production has started as they was a reported delay.

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3 w. ago ‘Happy, healthy’ girl left paralysed from neck down after falling ill

Ivy Amos was diagnosed with transverse myelitis, a rare neurological condition caused by inflammation of the spinal cord

Science

4 w. ago Teenager woke to find she was being raped by man as his partner held her down

Robert Ellis-Evans, 39, and Sarah Vigus aka Parkinson, 38, were found guilty of raping the girl who had passed out or fallen asleep after drinking alcohol

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