4 d. ago QUENTIN LETTS: Stooped old egomaniac Trump was a forcefield of attention. Europe's club

Forget Greenland. This was the week Donald Trump colonised Davos - and much that it represented.

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5 d. ago QUENTIN LETTS: The nasal knight kept saying he wouldn't yield. All right, all right, we got it... he had a new word!

Sir Keir Starmer wanted to sound resolute. Man of iron, that sort of thing. 'I know,' said some bright spark in No 10. 'Why don't we use the verb "yield"?' Everyone agreed that this was a capital idea.

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7 d. ago QUENTIN LETTS: There was a drained despair to the PM. Was he regretting past sucking up to Trump?

Sir Keir Starmer scrapped a Monday morning jaunt to Yorkshire and summoned an emergency news conference in Downing Street. Subject: Greenland, but really it was about Donald Trump.

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1 week ago QUENTIN LETTS: With a glint in her eye, Kemi pounced on the Great Xerox Bungle and assassinated her ex

Kemi Badenoch recently acquired a chunky new leather handbag. At 11.06am we learned that it contained a Kalashnikov.

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1 week ago Teen student dies at sixth form college after police called over welfare concerns

An 18-year-old student died at Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College in Darlington on Tuesday afternoon, with police confirming the teenager was pronounced dead at the scene

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1 week ago QUENTIN LETTS: Starmer's Kama Sutra joke felt desperate, studenty, prattish and mouldy. He'd make a dreadful best man

The prime minister was being teased by Kemi Badenoch about his numerous U-turns. He did not like it. And so he flipped.

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1 week ago Man 'restrained by eight police officers' while taking bins outside Edinburgh home

Gabriels Ochnolichs was filmed being restrained by Police Scotland officers who had been called to do a welfare check.

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1 week ago QUENTIN LETTS: Not a single backbench MP backed the new spy base

Not a single backbencher supported the planned London spy base - sorry, I do apologise, I mean embassy. Even some of Labour's most assiduous greasers criticised the proposal.

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2 w. ago QUENTIN LETTS: Wearing enough rope to lasso a bullock, new defence chief talked bullet points not bullets

Our new Chief of Defence Staff was at the defence select committee. Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton came sloping down the corridor beforehand.

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2 w. ago Police and paramedics descend on street amid 'concern for welfare' incident

Emergency crews were called earlier this morning

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2 w. ago Man told friends he'd thrown baby at a television, court hears

Police went to a property following welfare concerns for an infant

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2 w. ago Dad who threw his own baby daughter at a television is jailed

Police went to a property following welfare concerns for an infant

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2 w. ago M60 shut for hours as police rush to concern for welfare in Stockport

The incident has been safely resolved

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2 w. ago QUENTIN LETTS: Why does Labour so hate pubs? Is it because people gather in such places to ask one another 'isn't Starmer a pillock?'

Roads minister Lilian Greenwood, removing the L plates from her bonnet, nosed into the fast lane. Our Lilian, conscientious but underpowered, was making a Commons statement on road safety

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2 w. ago Rachel Reeves brands critics of benefits splurge RACIST as Labour boasts about law scrapping two

Rachel Reeves accused Nigel Farage of only wanting white people to get welfare after he warned Labour's policy will benefit 'huge numbers of foreign-born people'.

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2 w. ago The Guardian view on Britain and Europe: time to move together, faster and further | Editorial

The chaos that Donald Trump is causing in the world makes the case for continental solidarity and explicit repudiation of Brexit divisions Sir Keir Starmer’s plan for 2026 was to talk more about the domestic issues that concern British voters. Donald Trump knocked that plan off course. US intervention in Venezuela inevitably demanded the prime minister’s attention, as did this week’s summit of Ukraine’s allies, the “coalition of the willing”, in Paris. Progress towards agreeing security guarantees for Kyiv in the event of a peace deal with Russia was overshadowed by Mr Trump restating his ambition to wrest control of Greenland from Denmark. The dust had not settled when American special forces boarded a Russian-flagged oil tanker in European waters, ostensibly to enforce a blockade against Venezuela.Prime ministers have to multitask, but under these circumstances it is understandable if Sir Keir’s mind has been filled with foreign affairs. He should be used to this by now. Mr Trump’...

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2 w. ago Everyone's saying Miliband will be the next Chancellor. And by gosh, he's looking pleased with himself... QUENTIN LETTS watches PMQs

With le tout Westminster now tipping him to become our next Chancellor, Ed Miliband came dude-walking into the Commons for energy questions. Mr Miliband led with his teeth.

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2 w. ago QUENTIN LETTS: With so many of Labour's troops deserting him, the PM may need a few bodyguards of his own from Cuba

A fullish Commons finally discussed Venezuela. Kemi Badenoch was there, the Lib Dems' portly Sir Ed Davey was there; we even had both of Your Party's leaders, Comrades Corbyn and Sultana.

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3 w. ago Urgent search for missing girl, 14, last seen in town centre as cops launch appeal

AN URGENT search has been launched for a missing 14-year-old girl who was last seen in a town centre as police appeal to the public for help. Greater Manchester Police said the teenager vanished in Stockport town centre and officers are now growing increasingly concerned for her welfare. Police said the 14-year-old, named only as...

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3 w. ago SNP urged to stamp out animal cruelty after UK Gov crackdown on 'barbaric' methods

Keir Starmer's government unveiled a new Animal Welfare Strategy south of the border but there are no equivalent policies in Scotland.

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