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    Politics
    Starmer attacks Badenoch over call for new inquiry into sexual abuse gangs

    PM accuses Tory leader of ‘bandwagon jumping’ and condemns plan to oppose children’s wellbeing bill
    • Naked newborn baby on an inflatable boat.

      Migration
      Baby born on crowded small boat crossing from Africa to Canary Islands

    • Football
      Met police hand over ‘full file’ to CPS on Premier League player accused of rape

    • US
      Germany and France warn Trump against use of force over Greenland

    • Government borrowing
      Rachel Reeves says she has ‘iron grip’ on finances as borrowing costs surge

    • Energy
      Two power station owners to get more than £12m for three hours of electricity

    • UK
      Boy fatally stabbed on London bus named as Kelyan Bokassa

    • Birmingham
      Rapper convicted of posting ‘menacing’ video directed at Tommy Robinson

    • UK weather
      Temperatures forecast to plummet to -20C in parts of the UK

News in focus

  • Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he wants to enable greater free speech.

    Meta
    ‘Dispiriting’: factchecker reacts to Meta’s move to scrap role

  • Chancellor Rachel Reeves speaks to the media after a tour of Maidstone Hospital on 10 December 2024

    Bonds
    Why rising bond yields are rattling Rachel Reeves

    Chancellor in danger of breaking fiscal rules after cost of servicing UK 10-year debt rises to highest level since 2008
  • A Trump aircraft on the runway in Nuuk, Greenland.

    Explained
    Why is Donald Trump talking about annexing Greenland?

    The US president-elect has refused to rule out military force to take control. This is why it is important – and what Greenlanders think

Spotlight

  • A middle-aged woman drinks a glass of milk

    Film
    More fizzle than pop: the limits of Nicole Kidman’s erotic drama Babygirl

    Despite bold scenes for mainstream American cinema, the sexy dom/sub age-gap film can’t quite figure out what it’s saying about desire
  • A person in athletic wear is sitting on the floor. She is holding a bottle in front of a camera also propped up on the floor

    Well actually
    Are you falling for wellness misinformation online? Here’s how to tell

  • 'Playing Nice' TV Show, Series 1, Episode 1, UK - 05 Jan 2025<br>Editorial use only Mandatory Credit: Photo by Joss Barratt/REX/Shutterstock (15034292aq) Niamh Algar as Maddie. 'Playing Nice' TV Show, Series 1, Episode 1, UK - 05 Jan 2025 Playing Nice, is a British ITV psychological thriller adapted by Malpractice writer Grace Ofori-Attah from the best-selling novel by British thriller author JP Delaney. Two couples discover that their toddlers were switched at birth in a hospital mix-up and face a horrifying dilemma: do they keep the sons they have raised and loved or reclaim their biological child? Living a waking nightmare, Pete (James Norton) and Maddie (Niamh Algar) are jettisoned into the world of the other couple Miles (James McArdle) and Lucy (Jessica Brown Findlay). At first it seems all four are agreed on a solution, but are hidden motives are at play? How far can each couple trust the real parents of their child or even each other?

    Television
    From stolen babies to dog murder: the TV shows that went way too far

    ITV’s controversial child-swap thriller Playing Nice has proved too triggering for some viewers. But it’s the tip of the iceberg when it comes to television crossing a line
  • Andrew McCarthy: Fusion of Helios. For My Best Shot

    My best shot
    My 90,000 shots of the sun: Andrew McCarthy’s best photograph

    ‘I took all the images with a precisely tuned telescope then joined them up. Use the wrong type of telescope and you’ll blind yourself and burn your house down’
    • Angelina Jolie as Maria Callas in Maria.

      Film
      Maria review – Angelina Jolie’s Callas commands the screen as a great diva in decline

    • Pierre Boulez.

      Classical music
      ‘He jolted us out of our comfort zone’: Antonio Pappano, Martyn Brabbins and more on Pierre Boulez

    • Woman holding scissors next to small bush

      Pass notes
      ‘Full bush in a bikini’: the sudden rise of pubic hair positivity

    • Russian mystic Grigori Rasputin and his admirers in his flat on 64, Gorokhovaya street. Saint Petersburg, Russia, circa 1915.

      Kindness of strangers
      'We thought we’d been poisoned at Tolstoy’s house. Then a local explained what we had really drunk'

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Opinion

  • The chancellor, Rachel Reeves, with the health secretary, Wes Streeting, at St George's hospital, London, on 28 October 2024.

    The spiralling cost of borrowing spells trouble for Rachel Reeves – but she must hold her nerve

    Jonathan Portes
    There is no need to panic: the government’s overall fiscal strategy is the right one. Spending cuts would be a mistake, says Jonathan Portes, a professor at King’s College London
  • Older man standing at a bus stop.

    Many wise people have told me how to live a better life. Obviously I didn’t pay attention

    Adrian Chiles
  • Nicola Jennings on Mark Zuckerberg’s plan to end fact-checking on Meta – cartoon

    Cartoon
    Nicola Jennings on Mark Zuckerberg’s plan to end fact-checking on Meta

    The move will also see more political content being recommended across Facebook, Instagram and Threads
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    Mark Zuckerberg has gone full Maga

    Siva Vaidhyanathan
    It’s a mistake to describe the Meta CEO’s move as a retreat from ‘fact-checking’: it’s a retreat from limiting harm to users
    • Yinan Zhu sits at a desk in a parliamentary committee room

      Shein’s silence is farcical. It must answer fair questions if it wants a London listing

      Nils Pratley
    • ‘For decades, companies demanded their workers’ loyalty while offering little in return.’

      Why are gen Z shunning ‘hustle culture’ in favour of long-term jobs? Here are three good reasons

      Oli Mould
    • USA, New Jersey, Couple sleeping together in bed at night<br>GettyImages-539668989

      Is ‘sleep divorce’ the key to marital bliss?

      Coco Khan
    • a man with arms aloft

      There is little the US can do to constrain Elon Musk. But here are some ideas

      Robert Reich

Editorials & Letters

  • Mark Zuckerberg

    Editorial
    The Guardian view on content moderation: Meta did far too little. Now it wants to do even less

  • Conservative party leader Kemi Badenoch speaks during a press conference on 27 November 2024.

    Editorial
    The Guardian view on Kemi Badenoch: lacking substance, courage and judgment

  • The health and social care secretary, Wes Streeting

    Letters
    The care taskforce needs boldness, not buzzwords

  • Section of a fresco by Niccolò Circignani of a scene from Virgil’s Latin poem the Aeneid, in the Della Corgna palace. Castiglione del Lago, Umbria. Italy.

    Letters
    Latin can lay down skills that last a lifetime

Sport

  • Abdullah Hayayei competes in the men's discus F34 final in 2015

    Abdullah Hayayei
    UK Athletics charged with manslaughter over Paralympian’s death

  • The World Anti-Doping Agency director general, Olivier Niggli, delivers a speech during the annual symposium in March 2019.

    Doping in sport
    Wada faces crisis after US government withholds funding

    • Mikel Arteta and the ‘tricky’ Carabao Cup ball

      Football
      EFL hits back at Arteta’s complaints: ‘All clubs play with the same ball’

    • Emma Raducanu in a practice session ahead of the Australian Open

      ‘I’ve been hooked’
      Scourge of shady line calls baffles Raducanu and others

    • Everton's Ashley Young applauds; Tyler Young of Peterborough applauds

      Football
      Young v Young: father-son FA Cup meeting could join folklore

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      NFL
      Kelce denies Chiefs lost on purpose to eliminate Bengals from playoffs

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Climate crisis

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    Business
    Six big US banks quit net zero alliance before Trump inauguration

  • An aerial view of sea and forested shore, a single boat in the centre heading towards a pier

    Environment
    Want to sponsor a piece of ocean paradise? How one Pacific island’s novel response to rising seas is paying off

  • The Shropshire Union canal running through Wheaton Aston.

    Environment
    Canals have vital role to play in UK’s climate resilience, says charity

  • Off-shore oil platform in the Santa Barbara channel, off Ventura, California.

    Energy industry
    Biden bans new drilling in US coastal waters weeks before Trump handover

From the UK

  • People standing at a line of police tape, near a row of parked cars, one of which has the boot open

    London
    Police carry out controlled explosions after alert in central London

    Met says incident ‘stood down’, after shoppers in Regent Street area evacuated because of suspicious vehicle
  • An elderly woman stares out of a window.

    Social care
    ‘Get this done’: Andrew Dilnot attacks three-year plan for English social care

  • A greenfinch, right, and a goldfinch keeping a close watch on each other at either side of a sun flower seed bird feeder.

    Birds
    RSPB stops selling flat bird feeders owing to deadly finch disease

  • People watch a performer during the Edinburgh festival fringe on the Royal Mile, Edinburgh.

    Scotland
    Edinburgh to introduce tourist tax for overnight stays

    • Conservatives
      Kemi Badenoch tells Tories: don’t expect big policy plans for two years

    • Hornby
      Sales at toymaker Hornby up 7% after bumper Black Friday and Christmas

    • Exclusive
      UK ministers may lift BSE-era ban on animal remains in chicken and pig feed

    • Politics
      Former Brexit negotiator Oliver Robbins becomes top Foreign Office civil servant

    • Environment
      Charges against 34 people dropped over plastic pollution protest at Unilever HQ

    • West Midlands
      Family of man killed by police in Redditch seeking ‘answers and justice’

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  • Marine Le Pen and Marion Maréchal embrace behind a podium with a crowd behind them.

    France
    Death of Jean-Marie Le Pen reignites succession tussle between Marine and her niece

  • The killing of Samuel Luiz led to widespread demonstrations across the Spain.

    Spain
    Four men jailed for 2021 homophobic murder in Spain

    • Syria
      Inclusive transition best path to lifting of Syria sanctions, says UN special envoy

    • Italy
      Body found in Dolomites believed to be that of missing Briton Sam Harris

    • Technology
      OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman accused of sexual abuse by sister in lawsuit

    • US politics live
      Blinken and top Democrats push back against Trump bid for US to take over Greenland

    • Science
      Outdated guidelines mean doctors failing to spot heart condition in women

    • World
      Italian journalist Cecilia Sala returns home after release from prison in Iran

The Filter

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    The Filter
    14 of the best men’s boots for winter, from Chelsea to brogues to western

  • flat-lay of a blender and fresh seasonal berries and fruits over white background, cooking preparing smoothies, detox, healthy clean eating

    The Filter
    The best blenders to blitz like a pro, tried and tested, from Ninja to Nutribullet

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    The Filter
    Breaking bad habits: what you told us about your new year buying intentions

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    The Filter
    How to go vegan: our beginner’s guide to everything from essential supplements to meat alternatives

Culture

  • Increasingly online … gamers are no longer interested in an IRL shopping experience.

    Games
    Boxed video game sales collapse in UK as digital revenues flatten

    Data from the Entertainment and Retail Association shows more and more players leaving physical games behind for digital downloads and subscriptions
  • "Peter, Paul &amp; Mary" Performing<br>NEW YORK - CIRCA 1965: (L-R) Mary Travers, Paul Stookey and Peter Yarrow of the folk group "Peter, Paul &amp; Mary" perform on stage in circa 1965 in New York City, New York. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

    Music
    Peter Yarrow obituary

  • Michelle Yeoh, Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande at the National Board of Review awards gala in New York on Tuesday.

    Culture
    Wicked, A Complete Unknown and Shôgun lead Screen Actors Guild nominations

  • A very serious overcurrent … Kieran Culkin as Benji and Jesse Eisenberg as David in A Real Pain.

    Film
    A Real Pain review – Jesse Eisenberg’s sauntering Holocaust tour comedy is a masterpiece

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    Film
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    Music
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    Life and style
    The question that changed my life: seven writers on the conundrum that transformed everything

    From choosing between a relationship and a baby to imagining a life without sex, how a simple question revolutionised seven lives
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    Questions for a better life
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    A moment that changed me
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    When revolutionary students seized the US embassy in Tehran, they initiated a 444-day ordeal that had a huge impact on Carter in both political and human terms
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    South Korea
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