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Eurovision has become a culture wars contest

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Until around a decade back, most of us either watched the Eurovision Song Contest because it was extremely camp, or for what passed for the ‘politics’ – Greece and Turkey not voting for each other over Cyprus, and that exquisitely rebuking nul points the UK invariably got from Germany and France, for being an uppity little island nation

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Defenceless

The grim truth about Britain’s military weakness

The truth about Britain’s hollowed-out armed forces

When Keir Starmer was told his pledge to raise defence spending to 3 per cent of GDP in the next parliament was not enough to fund his vision for the armed forces, as outlined in the strategic defence review (SDR), he put his head in his hands and snapped: ‘Why are you doing this to

The truth about Britain’s hollowed-out armed forces

When Keir Starmer was told his pledge to raise defence spending to 3 per cent of GDP in the next parliament was not enough to fund his vision for the armed forces, as outlined in the strategic defence review (SDR), he put his head in his hands and snapped: ‘Why are you doing this to

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Cartoons

Nick Newman

‘‘One drop of dart frog toxin and you croak.’’

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KJ Lamb

‘‘How influencer-endorsed is the duck?’’

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Ettie Neil-Gallacher

Why have a parenting philosophy?

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