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Trip to Paris showed me just what a dump Scotland has become
This time last week, I was writing my column for The Herald not from my usual spot in my Edinburgh home, but in a Parisian cafe. My children are now at an age where city breaks are not excruciatingly boring for them, so as a school holiday treat...
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Paramount Sells Argentina TV Biz; Tubi & Bell Team Up; UK YouTube Users Favor U.S. Channels – Global Briefs
Paramount Exiting Argentina TV Business Skydance’s Paramount has sold its Argentinian broadcast network Telefé to businessmen Gustavo Scaglione and José Luis Manzano. Terms of the deal with Scaglione’s holding company were not disclosed, but a...
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7 Things: Britt slams media for government shutdown coverage; AJ McCarron enters Lt. Gov. race; and more…
7. As the media and their Democrats rage about a privately funded East Wing renovation, the Trump administration is pushing with a remark about how U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is a scumbag. 6. U.S. Rep. Gary Palmer...
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From balaclava-clad youths to the anti-British burka, let's ban face coverings and take our country back - Stuart Fawcett
I walked past Parliament earlier this week and saw several balaclava-clad youths on bikes loitering near the underground entrances. Their faces were entirely hidden - no masks for health reasons, just a deliberate shield from recognition. What...
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Do new wave of British heavyweights have any chance of dethroning Usyk?
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It will be ten years next month since Tyson Fury beat Wladimir Klitschko in Dusseldorf to unleash an era of riotous controversy, bitter rivalry and gilded dossing. Five months later Anthony Joshua was also a world champion. Those two veterans are...
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Does adopting far-right rhetoric help or hurt the political center?
Parties of both the center-right and the center-left are unintentionally strengthening far-right parties by repeating their ideas and rhetoric in a doomed attempt to shrink their support, according to a new study by the Berlin Social Science...
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Average Briton to spend more than £1,300 in six weeks before Christmas, poll finds
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
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Wagner Group stooges jailed for Russian state ‘sabotage campaign’ on UK warehouse
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
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Reforming leave laws for grieving parents
Last June, a baby girl named Priya was born just shy of 25 weeks. She was a tiny figure in a crib in the neonatal intensive care unit, where her parents watched over her, day and night, suspended in hope. “I used to call her my ‘fighter girl’ and...
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Wagner Group stooges jailed after blaze at UK warehouse storing Ukraine aid
Wagner Group stooges have been jailed for setting fire to a warehouse storing aid to Ukraine, as part of a planned “campaign of terrorism and sabotage” for the Russian state. The arson attack on the industrial units in Leyton, east London, on...
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Huge haul of illegal weight loss jabs seized in record raid at UK factory
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
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Shashwat Sachdev joins Hans Zimmer to score British series 'Virdee' in first major international crossover
What made you realise blockchain could be the solution? It was understanding that blockchain’s immutability — its inability to be altered retroactively, even by its own creator — could finally solve one of the greatest legal challenges in music:...
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Fast and furious: Behind Canadian billionaire Lawrence Stroll’s mission to turn Aston Martin into an F1 champion
The first thing you’re required to do when entering Aston Martin Racing’s sprawling new Formula One research and development hub in Silverstone, a couple of hours outside London, is surrender your phone. A receptionist then cheerfully places a...
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Kim Kardashian to appear on The Graham Norton Show tonight with Emmy-winning stars as she shares glossy new project with UK
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The Graham Norton Show is gearing up to welcome a starry line-up tonight led by Kim Kardashian. The reality star and businesswoman will appear on the BBC One chat show to talk about her upcoming drama series All’s Fair, in which she plays a...
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Lily Allen’s West End Girl is funny, sexy, jawdropping – and forged in the fires of tabloid Britain
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. Though it probably wouldn’t have occurred to the 17th-century playwright who wrote those words, scorned women write absolute bangers, too. We have been reminded...
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Albanian drug dealer, 29, allowed to stay in the UK after judge says he showed remorse and 'learnt his lesson'
An Albanian drug dealer who was considered a 'serious threat to the public' has won an asylum case to stay in Britain after a judge ruled he has 'learnt his lesson'. Arlind Nabolli, 29, was caught dealing cocaine and cannabis and jailed for more...
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UK private sector growth strengthens in October as manufacturing...
UK business activity showed tentative signs of recovery in October, though conflicting signals between consumer resilience and fading business confidence have complicated the outlook for monetary policy. S&P Global's Flash Composite PMI Output...
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ITV GMB bias row erupts as Reform UK chairman slaps away 'far-right' remark during fiery Caerphilly defeat clash: 'Sick of the MSM!'
A number of Good Morning Britain viewers have admitted they're "sick of the mainstream media" after Reform UK chairman Dr David Bull faced some rather loaded questions on Friday's show. Dr Bull joined the ITV presenting duo to discuss Reform UK's...
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UK, Vietnam Planning Major Diplomatic Upgrade, Report Claims
The United Kingdom is set to become the latest country to announce a major upgrade in diplomatic relations with Vietnam, when To Lam, the chief of the Communist Party of Vietnam, visits the country next week. A report yesterday by Reuters, citing...
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Fresh humiliation for Starmer's Channel boats 'plan' as Germany 'shelves' vow to close legal loophole on people-smuggling to Britain
By JAMES TAPSFIELD, UK POLITICAL EDITOR Published: 06:29 EDT, 24 October 2025 | Updated: 06:32 EDT, 24 October 2025 Keir Starmer faces another humiliating setback to his Channel boats crackdown today. Germany is said to be unlikely to keep a...
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