93 m. ago ‘Super Dom’ Cummings cunningly waits five years to reveal national security lapses | John Crace

Only a genius like Boris Johnson’s former right-hand man would have had the wisdom to keep stumm until nowAnd relax. Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s Super Dom! At a time of heightened worries about national security, who better than Dominic Cummings to shine a light on the murky world of spying?The man who turned a drive to Barnard Castle into an advert for SpecSavers. The man who gave us Brexit. Which one of us didn’t vote for a 4% hit to GDP? The man who gave us Boris Johnson. Truly, Dom has enriched us all over the past 10 years.A year in Westminster: John Crace, Marina Hyde and Pippa Crerar. On Tuesday 2 December, join Crace, Hyde and Crerar as they look back with special guests at another extraordinary year, live at the Barbican in London and livestreamed globally. Book tickets here Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Celebrity MasterChef 2025 lineup revealed: pop stars, soap icons and a sporting legend step into the kitchen

From Liberty X’s Michelle Heaton to rugby hero Alun Wyn Jones, BBC’s 20th series serves up its most eclectic cast yet

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10 h. ago Black British Business Awards 2025 winners revealed at glitzy ceremony in Mayfair

Managing director at S&P Global Yvonne Kunihara-Davidson was crowned Black British Business Person of the Year at the 12th edition of the awards

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26 h. ago Parents set new baby name trend as most popular monikers of 2025 are revealed

BabyCentre has shared a list of the most popular baby names of 2025 so far, with a major trend emerging for girls names in the process while boys name stay consistent

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32 h. ago Sam Fender reveals how he plans to celebrate Mercury Prize 2025 win

Sam Fender has won the Mercury Prize 2025 for his third album, People Watching on Thursday (16 October).

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48 h. ago Dylan Sprouse reveals wife Barbara Palvin walked 2025 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show on broken foot months after endometriosis surgery

The Hungarian model walked the runway Wednesday night with an injury

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56 h. ago Bird migration is changing. What does this reveal about our planet? – visualised

Bird migrations rank as one of nature’s greatest spectacles. Thanks to GPS tracking, scientists are uncovering extraordinary insights into ancient and mysterious journeys – and new threats that are reshaping them.Bird migrations rank as one of nature’s greatest spectacles. Thanks to GPS tracking, scientists are uncovering extraordinary insights into ancient and mysterious journeys – and new threats that are reshaping them.As storm-chasing seabirds, Desertas petrels seek out hurricanes that draw deep-sea creatures to the surface. Only about 200 pairs remain, although the population is stable. Continue reading...

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69 h. ago Who left the Celebrity Traitors tonight? Updating list of banishments and murders in episode 3

Celebrity Traitors will reveal the first banishment of 2025 - but who will it be? 🕵️ ♂️📺

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2 d. ago Golden Girl 2025: Arsenal and Lionesses star rewarded for Euro 2025 heroics as shortlist revealed

Forward played a key role in England’s successful title defence

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3 d. ago Blue, Yoda originally was, archival Star Wars sources reveal

Review of screenplay, novel, and comics suggests film-makers made late decision to make diminutive Jedi master green“You must unlearn what you have learned,” Jedi master Yoda instructed his stubborn apprentice, Luke Skywalker. And now Star Wars fans may have to do the same after confirmation that the beloved fictional alien was very nearly blue, or even purple.Reviews of archival sources – and new testimony from a special effects makeup artist who worked on the first Yoda puppets – suggest film-makers made a decision late in the development process to switch the character’s skin colour to green. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Silent Hill 2 comes to the PS Plus Extra and Premium October 2025 games lineup

PS Plus has been getting a whole lot of new games to play recently, and fans of the service are now looking forward to the PS Plus Extra and Premium October 2025 games reveal. Here's everything you need to know about the roster of games coming to the service in October.

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4 d. ago PS Plus Extra and Premium October 2025 reveal date and when you'll play the new games

The PS Plus October 2025 games are on the way, and here's everything you need to know about when they'll be revealed.

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4 d. ago Young Aussie, 27, reveals the brutal reality of being an adult in 2025

A young woman working in the fashion industry has declared she 'hates her life' as millions of Australians battle a cost-of-living crisis.

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5 d. ago Inside aviation's 'deadliest year': Experts reveal what has caused a succession of aircraft disasters in 2025

In December, 179 people were killed when a passenger plane landing in South Korea skidded off the runway at Muan International Airport. It began a succession of air disasters in 2025.

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5 d. ago Coronation Street Christmas 2025 revealed with huge wedding and secrets exposed

Coronation Street has confirmed a number of huge storylines coming up in the festive season

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5 d. ago Revealed: The town with magical Christmas market and 'cheapest flights' in 2025

Flights to some of Europe's most 'magical' Christmas markets have been significantly reduced, offering UK travellers the ultimate festive experience for less this winter. 

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6 d. ago The story behind the spy stories: show reveals secrets of John le Carré’s craft

How author researched his plots and letters from Alec Guinness feature in Oxford exhibition Lamplighters, pavement artists, babysitters – they have taken on whole new meanings thanks to John le Carré. As his fans will know, they are part of tradecraft practised by the spies he wrote about so evocatively. Now, almost five years after his death, an exhibition, with the title Tradecraft, reveals the techniques and motivations of the characters’ real creator, David Cornwell.As you enter the exhibition in Oxford University’s Bodleian library you are greeted with a large portrait of Cornwell, wearing a black bucket cap, looking straight ahead with piercing eyes, his chin resting on his gently clasped hands. Accompanying the photo are two of his quotes. “I am not a spy who writes novels, I am a writer who briefly worked in the secret world,” one says. The second, after questioning whom, if anyone, we can trust, continues: “What is loyalty – to ourselves, to whom, to what? Whom, if anyone, ...

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8 d. ago Man convicted of 38 paedophile offences revealed as police informer who spied on UK activists

Trial of Nick Gratwick, 68, who schemed to rape children as young as six, exposes previous role among green protestersA man who schemed to rape children as young as six was revealed at his trial to have been a police informer who spied on environmental activists.Nick Gratwick, 68, was found guilty on Friday of 38 “abhorrent” paedophile offences, including plans over the last two years to pay to rape or sexually assault children in the UK and abroad. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Strictly Come Dancing 2025 star reveals devastating cancer battle after 'major operation'

Alex Kingston’s Strictly Come Dancing journey comes just months after she secretly battled cancer - having initially put the symptoms down to her age

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8 d. ago Hamleys reveals top 15 toys for Christmas 2025 including return of nostalgic ones that kids will love

HAMLEYS has revealed its top 15 toys for Christmas this year, including the return of some nostalgic classics. With 11 weeks to go until the big day, the iconic toy chain's experts have rounded up their predictions of what will be on many kids' letters to Santa. The list includes toys aimed at a range...

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