Council leader Linden Kemkaran with Nigel Farage during his visit to the Reform-led council in Kent in July.
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Research shows the swearing, shouting and enforced muting suggests deeper problems at the Reform-led council.
A new BYD plant in Brazil.
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Chinese cars are in the fast lane.
The rooftop garden is one of many spaces where the residents of Appleby Blue and members can interact.
Philip Vile
Housing for the elderly that fosters community, accessibility and care.
The Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, and Russian president Vladimir Putin attend a press conference at the Kremlin in Moscow in July 2024.
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The Budapest summit is, above all, a boon for Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán.
One of Stephen Gammell’s original illustrations for Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.
Stephen Gammell
These stories have to be read aloud to scare friends or read under the covers with a flashlight.
Empress Eugenie’s tiara was among the looted goods.
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Much of the immediate reaction to the audacious theft has concentrated on the Louvre’s security problems, rather than on the jewels themselves.
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From Victorian séances to TikTok, our hunt for ghosts reveals more about the living than the dead.
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The Twits is a fast-paced, whirlwind animation that speaks to audiences of all ages.
Kate Winslet as Marianne Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility (1995).
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Austen’s cities, seaside resorts, country estates and naval towns remind us that geography is never neutral.
On-again, off-again relatonship: Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky.
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It looked as if the US might supply Ukraine with game-changing new weapons. Then the Russian president phoned Donald Trump.
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Espionage trials risk revealing the sometimes highly confidential methods by which evidence had been gathered against the accused.
A Hamas fighter: the militant group is attempting to assert its authority in war-torn Gaza.
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The US president appears to recognise that Hamas could, initially at least, play a role in stopping lawlessness in the war-torn enclave.
Trump and his team announced $100 billion of investment from Apple in August.
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The president has promised his approach will bring back jobs – but will they be good ones?
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New report shows how seemingly benign weather conditions can have a big impact on British electricity production – and prices.
And if you look way over there, you can just about see the light at the end of this long tunnel.
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Keir Starmer says painful decisions are needed now to fix the country for the future. But voters may not stick around to find out if he’s right.
A mine worker shows a small piece of gold found in the Ituri province of the Democratric Republic of the Congo.
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Minerals are tied intimately with conflict, at both ends of the supply chain.
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Fender grew up in a disintegrating family in a disintegrating former industrial region, and has written about collective suffering with great skill and passion.
During the first 2020 lockdowns people left messages thanking the workers who were keeping them safe.
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Instead of a collective shift towards real social solidarity, the pandemic exacerbated socio-economic divisions.
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A monster movie, new stories from Virginia Woolf, menopausal punk, a Lee Miller retrospective, and portraits of one of Van Gogh’s closest friends.
Musicians busking in Galway.
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It’s one of the first to make it out of the pilot stage and to offer a subsistence level payment.