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Has the media lost the plot?

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This is an item from Iain Martin’s weekly newsletter for subscribers to Reaction. To receive it every weekend, become a subscriber here. It was the Reaction annual dinner in support of our Young Journalists Programme last week, generously supported by companies and individuals who bought tables and hosted by our chairman Lord Salisbury. The funds […]

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Rishi Sunak makes history as first Indian-heritage UK Prime Minister

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Rishi Sunak enters No 10 Downing Street today as the UK’s third prime minister in 2022, and its fifth in six years. Sunak’s investiture of Britain’s highest office may be part of the country’s revolving door political environment, but it is significant as the first time someone of Asian-heritage has made it to the top. The son […]

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Categories World News

Farewell, Your Majesty: all the details from Queen Elizabeth’s funeral

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As the day of the funeral neared, thousands of people camped overnight along the route of the procession. YOU arrived in central London shortly after 5am and the streets were buzzing with police, army officers and security guards. Near the abbey pavements were nearly impossible to navigate – people were sleeping rough on the streets, […]

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Categories Sports

Raul de Tomas is ready to seal a transfer outside the window after being linked with Manchester United and Aston Villa over the summer.

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De Tomas was on the radar of the pair of Premier League clubs, both of whom explored the idea of signing a striker. Ultimately, neither Manchester United nor Aston Villa signed a senior, out-and-out centre-forward. Hence, it would have been expected that De Tomas would be continuing at Espanyol as normal. But after a rather […]

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Categories Breaking news

Death of Queen Elizabeth latest: King Charles about to lead procession in Edinburgh

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King Charles will lead a poignant procession behind the coffin of his mother in Edinburgh on Monday afternoon after he spoke of the “weight of history” as he addressed Westminster Hall in his first visit to Parliament as sovereign. The King said: “As I stand before you today, I cannot help but feel the weight […]

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Queen Elizabeth II’s death live updates: Britain mourns longest-serving monarch

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The 96-year-old queen passed away Thursday at Balmoral, her castle in Scotland.   The death of Queen Elizabeth II is being mourned in Britain and across the world. The country’s longest-reigning monarch died Thursday at age 96. Large crowds gathered outside Buckingham Palace in central London, while tributes pour in from across the country and the world. […]

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Categories Local

TRUMP TROUBLES COULD STILL BACKFIRE ON HIS CRITICS, WHILE BIDEN BRIEFLY BREAKS THROUGH

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The praiseworthy, preemptive political obits had already been published. All that remained was for the reporters and anchors to trek out to Wyoming and perform last rites. But it is difficult to think of a single congressional primary loser who has drawn more glowing plaudits than Liz Cheney. “The Country Needs More Liz Cheneys,” a […]

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Deaths from global food shortages “could be even greater than the lives lost in the war directly,” says UK minister

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Deaths from global grain and food shortages due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine “could be even greater than the lives lost in the war directly,” UK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said Tuesday. Shapps said he is “very concerned” about the issue, and met with his Ukrainian counterpart Oleksandr Kubrakov last week in Germany to discuss […]

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Categories Local

Local groups report on the invasion in Ukraine

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Russia has invaded Ukraine, and Ukrainian children need our help. Global Fund for Children’s Joseph Bednarek describes what he’s hearing from local organizations about the situation on the ground and how they are responding. I wrote an article for Global Fund for Children in 2014, after Russia’s first invasion of Ukraine. During that war, most […]

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