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Protesters holding signs advocating to save the winter fuel payment for pensioners.
Winter fuel payments to return — but half of pensioners will miss out

Rachel Reeves is expected to set out plans to restore the payments and then claw them back from millions of better-off pensioners through higher taxes

Politics

UK under dual pressure to increase defence spending now

Comments from General Sir Richard Barrons come alongside renewed US demands for Britain to increase its defence spending faster




Satellite image of destroyed TU-95 aircrafts at Olenya air base after a drone strike.



Olivia Colman accepting the Best Actress award at the 91st Academy Awards.
Skip Botox if you want to look more attractive — just smile

A politician speaking at a podium during Prime Minister's Questions.
Badenoch plans to override ECHR on asylum for illegal migrants

Olivia Colman accepting the Best Actress award at the 91st Academy Awards.
Skip Botox if you want to look more attractive — just smile





Mohamed Al-Fayed at a London High Court hearing.
Mohammed Al Fayed spied on Harrods changing rooms, says bodyguard


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Woman in black dress dancing in a hospital room.
Meghan’s delivery-room dance with Harry in new video

The post comes after the Duchess of Sussex also released black-and-white photographs on Instagram to mark Lilibet’s birthday


Rachel Reeves giving a speech at a bus factory.
The more aggressively Reeves smiled, the worse her speech went


Illustration of the Peking University Oxford Centre, two men in suits, and three yellow stars.
Prince Andrew and ‘spy’ met UK–Chinese university head

Scene from Adolescence showing Jamie Miller and Eddie Miller in a room.
Three quarters of incels live with parents or alone, study finds


John-Paul Marks, Permanent Secretary of the Scottish Government, testifying before a committee.




Actors in a production of Les Misérables.
Bring the curtain down on long shows, urges theatre owner


Women on Mounjaro ‘cannot rely on contraceptive pill’


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Floella Benjamin defends artists over AI voice battles

Editor's picks



Lara Pulver and Adam Dannheisser in a scene from Fiddler on the Roof.

Stripped of schmaltz and imbued with a genuine folk sensibility, Jordan Fein’s version of the classic musical starts at the Barbican and then tours




Robert Crampton and Jeff Bezos at the New York Times DealBook summit.
Jeff Bezos will have Obama at his wedding. I had Andy McNab



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Ludicrous legal posturing won’t stop Russia

Treaties banning landmines and retrospectively prosecuting soldiers undermine Nato’s security in dangerous times



Illustration of politicians digging with shovels, with speech bubbles saying "We are delivering on our promise..." and "To get spades in the ground!"

Cartoon by Morten Morland



a man with a beard is wearing a black shirt
Reform’s Scottish rise reopens old wounds






a man with a beard is wearing a black shirt
Reform’s Scottish rise reopens old wounds






Collage of three women in different outfits.

As Brooklyn’s falling-out with his parents reaches dizzying new heights, has he thought about turning off Instagram?


a woman with blonde hair is wearing a black shirt
Deborah RossThank the bus driver? Whatever next — a kiss on the cheek?





Portrait of a man in a suit and glasses.
Robert LeaHas Elon Musk left Tesla in bad odour?


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Illustration of books, a skull, a bird, and a plant on a shelf, with a woman's portrait in a circle.

The Olive Kitteridge author picks her favourite books, including classics by Virginia Woolf and Colm Tóibín



Woman in patterned jacket with Uluru in the background.

The nonagenarian tech pioneer on the journey that changed her life, travels with her disabled son and why Japan is next on her list


Airplane seats with in-flight entertainment screens.
Cathy AdamsMost airlines ignore economy — but these are the ones doing it well


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Portrait of Imogen Tew.
I’m on the hunt for a boring British blue chip




Man wearing a light blue shirt, pinstripe shorts, white socks, and black loafers.
You too can dress like Paul Mescal — the best short shorts for summer
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