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Have you ever switched allegiance as a football fan? You are not alone | Luke McLaughlin
“I was fanatically pro-German when the Germans were here to protect us against the Americans, and now that Americans are here to protect us against the Germans, I am...
‘MPs have had their stomachs pumped’: concerns over ‘alcohol-soaked’ culture in Westminster
Parliament is “Britain’s last alcohol-soaked workplace” where MPs are offered free drinks as early as midday despite alcohol-related scandals, a report has revealed.Drinking is commonplace and some MPs have...
Exploring Rabat, Morocco – this year’s Unesco World Book Capital
The first book I read willingly was Bridget Jones’s Diary. I was 19. Up to that point, I hadn’t been much of a reader. I’d been more into football,...
Turn failing water firms into not-for-profit cooperatives, MPs and mayors tell PM
MPs and mayors close to Andy Burnham have told the prime minister there is a “third way” tlauo gain more control of failing companies, as the row over whether...
The tangled financial web at the heart of Reform UK
It has been three months since the Guardian revealed that Nigel Farage had accepted a £5m gift from Christopher Harborne, a billionaire donor to Reform UK.This was not the...
TV tonight: a perfect finale for French super-soldier thriller The Sentinels
The Sentinels9.50pm, BBC FourThis French counterfactual thriller about lab-grown super-soldiers in the first world war has sustained itself convincingly; as the final two episodes drop, the political intrigue and...
‘I felt sick that he was near my mum’: a top amputation surgeon had his own legs removed due to a fetish. Were his patients safe?
Of all the things that happened in the fraught days after 72-year-old Liz Spooner had her leg amputated at the Royal Cornwall hospital in Truro in 2022, one memory...
‘We stared into an abyss’: the heroes battling to tame France’s ‘megafire’
By noon it is time for a break. The temperature is about 35C, the smell of ash, cinders and burnt wood hang acrid in the air. At tables laid...
