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Russia, Iran and China intensifying life-threatening operations in UK, police say — Reuters
Russia, Iran and China are behind a growing number of life-threatening operations in Britain including attacks and kidnappings, often deploying criminals and sometimes children as proxies, two senior British police officers said on Tuesday.
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Here we go again 
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Video shows items hurled at asylum protest police in Epping
Officers were assaulted and cars damaged outside a hotel used to house asylum seekers, police say.
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I just found out about this
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16 and 17-year-olds to be able to vote in next general election as government says it will lower voting age in UK
Lowering the voting age across the UK means around 1.5 million 16 and 17-year-olds will be able to vote at the next general election.
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Thousands of Afghans at risk of Taliban reprisals secretly brought to UK
Thousands of Afghans who worked for the British government were brought to the United Kingdom along with their families under a secret relocation scheme, after a major data breach in 2022 put them at…
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What a scandal
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Opinion | What did the people of the Cotswolds do to deserve a visit from JD Vance? — Guardian US
The US vice-president has chosen to holiday among the Chipping Norton set, which includes Boris Johnson and Jeremy Clarkson, in a country he says has gone to the dogs. It feels like he is trolling the UK, writes Guardian columnist Zoe Williams
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'There's an arrogance to the way they move around the city': is it time for digital nomads like me to leave Lisbon?
Like so many others, I moved from London to Portugal’s capital for the sun, lifestyle – and the tax break. But as tensions rise with struggling locals, many of us are beginning to wonder whether we’re doing more harm than good …
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How can England possibly be running out of water?
While famously rainswept, climate crisis, population growth and profligacy mean the once unthinkable could be possible
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Trump shocks UK business with stealth tariffs on 400 products — The Times and The Sunday Times
British manufacturers have been left reeling after the White House quietly imposed a huge expansion of goods that will face punitive US import tariffs. From condensed milk to shampoo, children’s highchairs to motorcycles, UK bosses are this weekend scrambling to ascertain the implications of the...
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‘If I felt Zuckerberg and Sandberg were monsters, I wouldn’t have worked at Meta’: Nick Clegg on tech bros, AI and Starmer’s half measures
When Britain’s former deputy PM took a job at Meta, nothing could have prepared him for the ‘cloying conformity’ of the tech world. So why does he still think social media is a force for good?
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I don't understand why our government isn't spending every day counter-messaging the life out of this shyt instead of gradually selling more and more of their souls to make themselves more attractive to this sort of fukking moron who won't EVER vote Labour anyway.
Just explain why migration has always been a good thing for Britain. Because it fukking has and every stat in the book backs it up.
World is going to hell in a handbasket QUICK and there seems to be fukk all anyone with the ability wants to do about it.
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Trump’s anti-press tactics are bad enough in the US. Now Reform is importing them to the Midlands | Jon Allsop
Nottinghamshire council has borrowed the US president’s playbook – but may soon find that it needs the media more than it thought, says journalist Jon Allsop
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A desperate, opportunist press and vicious politicians: no wonder the debate on refugees is so awful | Jane Martinson
Migration is one of the most important issues of our time and needs serious consideration. History will damn much of the UK media for failing to do that, says Guardian columnist Jane Martinson
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Lessons from an asylum hotel counter-protest: calling our opponents ‘fascist’ doesn’t work | David Renton
When anti-asylum demonstrations have so much support from the mainstream, a smarter, more tailored message is needed, says campaigner and barrister David Renton
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