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Asked who they would trust with the economy, 10 per cent of people said Labour – fewer than those who said they would trust Liz Truss
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The justice secretary has announced sweeping reforms to the courts system including limiting the right to a jury trial
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‘The list is always a compass for what’s next, and 2026 is heading somewhere special,’ says DJ Sian Eleri
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I’m A Celebrity’s Kelly Brook was branded a “snake” by Vogue Williams, just minutes after she left the jungle.
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The figure comes as the UN reports a ‘devastating’ collapse of HIV prevention services around the world
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Trump’s special envoy will speak to Russian president in renewed diplomatic effort to end war but both sides remain far from an agreement
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Chelsea boss Enzo Maresca said he would need to carefully manage the return of his star player
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Lady Elish Angiolini has called for leaders to ‘get a move on’ to protect women in public spaces
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IOPC investigation upholds or finds cases to answer in 92 complaints about police actions over disaster
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Defense secretary shares anecdote in The War on Warriors and rails against ‘rules and regulations’ governing war
Pete Hegseth, the US defense secretary, told soldiers under his command in Iraq to ignore legal advice about when they were permitted to kill enemy combatants under their rules of engagement.
The anecdote is contained in a book Hegseth wrote last year in which he also repeatedly railed against the constraints placed on “American warfighters” by the laws of war and the Geneva conventions.
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In the tropical dry forests of northern Colombia, a small team is gradually restoring the degraded habitat of the rare cotton-top tamarin
Luis Enrique Centena spent decades silencing the forest. Now, he listens. Making a whistle, the former logger points up to a flash of white and reddish fur in the canopy. Inquisitive eyes peer back – a cotton-top tamarin, one of the world’s rarest primates.
“I used to cut trees and never took the titís into account,” says Centena, calling the cotton-tops by their local name. “I ignored them. I didn’t know that they were in danger of extinction, I only knew I had to feed my family. But now we have become friends.”
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Documentary about New Zealand’s former leader records a shrewd but likable premier who did without the usual politician’s defences
New Zealand’s former prime minister Jacinda Ardern emerges from this documentary portrait the way she did when she was in power from 2017 to 2023 … as a human being. More than any politician anywhere in the world in my adult lifetime, she looked like an actual member of the human race who was catapulted to office too fast to have acquired the defensive carapace of the professional politician. She was vulnerable and scrutable and likable in ways utterly alien to everyone else.
Obviously this sympathetic film has been edited in such a way as to omit most of the hard business of internal politics and to foreground this humanity, although there is one fascinating moment at the very end when her partner Clarke Gayford gently asks if she might be doing too much; with a tiny flash of temper she asks if he is telling her to “delegate”. Gayford got his Denis Thatcher closeup there. Did we see a subliminal moment of the non-niceness vital for all successful politicians?
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