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What does the China ‘spy’ row show? That Starmer can’t just muddle through on foreign policy

The PM’s attitude to China exposes the void where there should be a strategic concept of Britain’s place in the world, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

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Author: Rafael Behr

Police missed clues about dangers of far right before summer riots in England

Intelligence gaps, especially around social media analysis, led to failures, report finds

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Author: Vikram Dodd

The prince and the ‘spy’

Prince Andrew is in trouble again, this time for meeting a Chinese businessman accused of spying for China. Dan Sabbagh and David Pegg report

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Author: Michael Safi,Dan Sabbagh,David Pegg,Lucy Hough,Alex Atack,Joel Cox,Homa Khaleeli

Prince Andrew’s ‘opaque’ finances provoke calls for register of royal interests

Claims of refused FOI requests into Duke of York’s business dealings come as controversy over alleged Chinese spy continues

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Author: Caroline Davies

U.K. Police Chiefs Were Too Slow to React to Summer Riots, Report Says

Police leaders waited too long — three days — to trigger a national mobilization to tackle the anti-immigrant violence that broke out in Britain this year, a report found.

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Author: Megan Specia

Man charged over crash which killed boy, 2, in Smethwick

A grey Porsche Cayenne hit a Toyota Auris carrying four adults and a child in Smethwick, near Birmingham

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Author: Ted Hennessey

Chinese businessman with links to Prince Andrew accused of spying

Manners maketh the man within

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Author: FinancialTimes

What does the Waspi announcement mean for women hit by state pension changes?

Everything you need to know about the Waspi campaign following work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall’s latest update

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Author: Jabed Ahmed

Elon Musk in Talks to Donate to Reform UK, Nigel Farage Says

Nigel Farage, leader of the populist Reform UK party, said he is in “ongoing negotiations” with Elon Musk about a political donation, the latest sign of a potential collaboration between the pair that could threaten the traditional two-party duopoly of British politics.

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Author: Joe Mayes

Port closure leads to surge in Cairnryan lorry traffic

Holyhead is out of action due to damage caused by Storm
in north Wales was damaged by he number of HGVs using Cairnryan rose after Holyhead port shut.

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Author: @BBCNews

Oof, that will sting … Labour stabs Waspi women in the back

Liz Kendall and her cabinet colleagues backed the compensation claims when on the hunt for votes. But in power, the devil was suddenly in the detail

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Author: Tom Peck

What Christmas will look like for Prince Andrew and Fergie

Instead of joining the Royal family at Sandringham this year, the Yorks will be at their Windsor home – but it’s unlikely they’ll be alone

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Author: Claudia Joseph

Questions over Duke of York’s China scheme as spy’s business partner won competition

Founder of fashion retail empire is also a co-director with Yang Tengbo of a start which won Prince Andrew’s venture prize over 23,000

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Author: Connor Stringer

Farage and Musk hold talks at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago

Nigel Farage has been beside the seaside. Not in his Clacton constituency, but on the sun-kissed Florida coast.

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Author: @PGMcNamara

Labour refuses pay out for women affected by pension age changes

The government has been accused of a “bizarre and totally unjustified decision” – after rejecting compensation payments to women born in the 1950s who were not properly warned that their pension age was being increased – dubbed the WASPIs.

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Author: @garygibbonc4

Sara Sharif ‘stood up for herself and had unquenchable spirit’

On Tuesday, the 10-year-old’s father Urfan Sharif, 42, and stepmother Beinash Batool, 30, were jailed for her murder.

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Author: Rosie Shead

Anger greets UK government decision not to compensate ‘Waspi women’

Minister says flat-rate compensation scheme for women affected by rising state pension age would have cost taxpayer £10.5bn,

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Author: Heather Stewart

A deadly thread runs through Sara Sharif case – and the government’s knee-jerk response misses it

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Author: Liz Bates

I spy another Prince Andrew disaster. Pity the royals: how could they possibly have seen this coming?

The Duke of York has proven to be a scandal magnet. He is a problem, a royal problem: it’s time they owned it, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

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Author: Marina Hyde

Farage’s Musk meeting is uncomfortable for the Tories and Labour

To the likely dismay of both Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch, Nigel Farage has met with tech billionaire Elon Musk

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Author: Katy Balls

China tells UK to ‘stop creating trouble’ over alleged spy

Embassy spokesperson accuses MPs of ‘arrogance and shamelessness’

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Author: Jonathan Wheatley

Sara Sharif’s mother calls her murderers ‘sadists and executioners’ as her statement read in court during sentencing

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Author: Sky News

Chinese embassy criticises ‘anti-China clamours’ after Yang Tengbo spy claim

Embassy claims some UK politicians have ‘twisted mentality towards China’ and are trying to smear it

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Author: Amy Hawkins

How Fergie urged Andrew to skip Christmas at Sandringham amid ‘Chinese spy links’

Alleged spy became close confidant of Duke of York is latest in a string of scandals involving prince

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Author: Athena Stavrou

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