39 h. ago Netanyahu claims trade boycotts over Gaza will force Israeli economy to become ‘super Sparta’

Israeli PM admits Israel is ‘in isolation’ amid growing alarm over its war in Gaza and humanitarian crisis

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56 h. ago Britain’s spookiest WW2 airfields haunted by ghost dog and mysterious ‘disembodied feet’

It’s time to raise a glass to our World War Two heroes to mark the 85 thanniversary of the Battle of Britain. Some believe the spirits of the fallen linger on at the airfields where they worked

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3 d. ago Moment Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton realiesed Harry and William were at war revealed

Prince Harry and Prince William's rift has been in the spotlight for several years, and it's been claimed that their wives have now made a harsh realisation about the feud

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7 d. ago The Girlfriend star Olivia Cooke's life off screen from One Direction link to co

The Girlfriend stars Olivia Cooke as Cherry Laine, a working-class woman who joins a highly-privileged family.

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8 d. ago Labour bigwigs like Bridget Phillipson enter race to replace Angela Rayner as deputy leader

Bridget Phillipson, the education secretary, billed herself as "a proud working-class woman from the north east". Dame Emily Thornberry, an influential committee chair, also threw her hat in the ring

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8 d. ago First cabinet minister enters race to become deputy Labour leader – UK politics live

Bridget Phillipson describes herself as ‘a proud working-class woman’ in statement announcing her bid to replace Angela RaynerWes Streeting, the health secretary, hasn’t just been on the Today programme this morning; he has been doing a media round, promoting the new NHS league tables for England, and in other interviews he has revealed more about why he is not committing to backing Bridget Phillipson for deputy leader at this point. (See 8.35am.)In an interview with Times Radio, Streeting said he would “certainly prefer the next deputy leader to be a woman”.[Phillipson] would definitely be a great deputy leader if she was chosen. There are other women in the race who I think would also be great deputy leaders. So I’m not endorsing anyone at this stage.Without being disrespectful to some brilliant women in London who are standing, like Emily Thornberry [whom] I’ve got a lot of respect for, I can well understand why lots of my colleagues are saying we should have a deputy leader from...

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9 d. ago ‘I was running for an eternity’: Eyewitnesses recall horror of Jerusalem bus stop shooting that left six dead

Israeli police said 12 people were injured after gunmen opened fire during rush hour

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1 week ago Angela Rayner’s exit proves it. Unless Starmer is able to meet this moment, Reform is on the path to power | John Harris

The prime minister increasingly looks like a man next to a burning house, offering to buy a new bookcase and rugSign up for our new weekly newsletter Matters of Opinion, where our columnists and writers will reflect on what they’ve been debating, thinking about, reading and moreOne hundred and twenty miles from Westminster, it felt like I had arrived at the perfect place to understand the meaning of Angela Rayner’s exit from the government: Reform UK’s brief conference, a giddy and surreal gathering of about 10,000 people in a hangar-like box on the edgelands of Birmingham.News of her resignation broke a couple of hours into the event’s first day, and the symbolism was glaring. Among midday pints, onstage pyrotechnics and a huge stand advertising the wonders of investing in gold, a party led by those bumptious public schoolboys Nigel Farage and Richard Tice was suddenly rejoicing in the departure of British politics’ most prominent working-class woman. The news, moreover, only boost...

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1 week ago There are only two ways to get a breakthrough in Israel – and stop Netanyahu from destroying Gaza

The Israeli government has repeatedly said the release of all remaining hostages and disarmament of Hamas would end the war, but in reality, Netanyahu’s military objectives in Gaza City come first, sources tell chief international correspondent Bel Trew

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1 week ago Teaching the deaf to survive in a silent war zone: How Gaza is even more dangerous when you can’t hear Israel’s missiles coming

When bombs fall on the Gaza Strip, members of the deaf community are particularly vulnerable, Ezz Al Din Abu Eisha reports

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1 week ago Angela Rayner's real offence was being a working class woman in power

'British politics just became a little less northern, a little less working class, and a little less female - and that loss should worry us all', writes Rob Williams.

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1 week ago Scotland retro: 34 intoxicating photos of popular pub landlords and landladies from the 80s to the noughties

Let’s raise a glass to these fine men and women who have kept the beer flowing at much-loved pubs around Scotland over the years.

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1 week ago 'Angela Rayner's biggest crime is that she's Labour's most powerful weapon'

The claws have been out for Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner since she strode into Downing Street in a mint green trouser suit - a gobby working-class woman with ideas above her station... who just happens to embody everything the Labour Party stands for

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2 w. ago At least 21,000 children disabled in Gaza during war, says UN committee – Middle East crisis live

More than 40,000 have suffered ‘new war-related injuries’ with more than half left disabled, says UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with DisabilitiesYemen’s Houthis have claimed responsibility for a missile launched at Israel (see 8.17am BST), saying they fired two ballistic missiles at Tel Aviv in what they said was an initial response to Israeli attacks on Yemen.The Israeli military moved deeper into Gaza City on Wednesday, with soldiers and tanks pushing into Sheikh Radwan, one of the urban centre’s largest and most crowded neighbourhoods, reports Reuters. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Netanyahu says that Trump told him to ‘go into Gaza with full force’ and ‘finish’ the war

The Israeli PM claimed he is facing US pressure to abandon partial ceasefire deals with Hamas, according to Israeli reports

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2 w. ago Art and politics are not the same thing – but the Anna Netrebko case shows what happens when they collide | Martin Kettle

The arts and politics are bound to mix, but they are not the same thing. In the cold war, Soviet artists performed in the west. Should the Russian soprano, who has condemned the Ukraine invasion, be blocked from singing in London?It is one of my very earliest concert memories. In October 1965, my father drove us to Manchester to hear Mstislav Rostropovich play in the Free Trade Hall. Rostropovich played Dvořák’s cello concerto with the Moscow Philharmonic, who began the concert with a symphony by Tikhon Khrennikov and ended it with one by Brahms. I was smitten by Rostropovich’s noble playing. I had never heard a musician like him before.This was, though, a concert taking place slap-bang in the middle of the cold war. The Cuban missile crisis had taken place less than three years earlier. The Berlin Wall was still fairly new. The Vietnam war was deepening. That summer I had read The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. The movie version of Le Carré’s novel, with Richard Burton, was due out...

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2 w. ago ‘We fear we are next’: Palestinian journalists in Gaza targeted by Israeli smear campaigns

With the Committee to Protect Journalists warning that more reporters are at risk of being killed by Israeli ‘war crimes’, Bel Trew and Nedal Hamdouna hear from those whose work places them firmly in the firing line

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2 w. ago Palestinians flee Gaza City as escalating Israeli offensive kills 77

Israeli official reveals plan to halt or limit aid into northern Gaza even as malnutrition kills 10 more people

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2 w. ago I Miss My MTV: 13 household names who presented on the UK network as local productions close

Raise a glass to the memory of MTV UK as we celebrate 13 former presenters who became household names

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3 w. ago Gaza latest: Journalists among 20 killed in Israeli strike on hospital as Netanyahu claims ‘tragic mishap’

At least five journalists have been killed in the Israeli strike

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