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Donald Trump has voiced scepticism over Reza Pahlavi’s popularity in Iran and whether he would make a good leader. But that’s for the Iranian people to decide | Ali Hamedani

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January 16, 2026 at 8:01 PM

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‘At a time when hospitals are chronically short of cash, the NHS shouldn’t be wasting public money defending unlawful practices’ | Joan Smith

NHS Darlington trans ruling is a warning to Labour

Publicly funded organisations should not discriminate against female employees. It’s so obvious that it shouldn’t need to be said, but today’s excoriating judgment in an employment tribunal case…

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January 16, 2026 at 5:00 PM

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‘Everyone who is overweight is essentially being gaslighted by the medical profession.’ | Valerie Stivers

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Why you should eat the RFK diet

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January 16, 2026 at 4:00 PM

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‘Jenrick’s political versatility mirrors the intellectual and spiritual shifts occurring on the British Right as old institutions and old ideas collapse.’ | Jonny Ball

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Will Robert Jenrick sink Reform?

‘It is a political truism that the opposition is in front, but your enemies behind.’ (Carl Court/Getty)

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January 16, 2026 at 2:00 PM

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‘Americans may not appreciate law-enforcement overreach, but they hate chaos even more.’ | Sohrab Ahmari

The Left is turning Minneapolis into another Portland

Anti-ICE rioters plunged Minneapolis into chaos once again in the early hours of today. That followed Wednesday night’s assault on a pair of FBI vehicles that saw rioters — including a member of the…

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January 16, 2026 at 1:00 PM

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‘There is a void beside my laptop screen where there used to be a feline, aggressively headbutting the edge of it.’ | Kathleen Stock

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The pain of pet grief

I still miss my cat. (Getty)

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January 16, 2026 at 12:00 PM

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‘Alcohol has associated risks — as do rock-climbing, playing bingo, driving, and shagging’ | Richard Godwin

Banning low-alcohol drinks for teens is paranoid safetyism

Somewhere in Britain, a group of 16-year-olds is taking sorrowful sips of Lucky Saint, worrying that their wild days of drinking 0.5% beer are numbered. The Government is minded to ban the nation’s…

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January 16, 2026 at 11:00 AM

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‘However hostile they are to today’s regime, the Saudi monarchy and the lesser princedoms would be far more threatened by their close proximity to an exuberantly democratic Iran.’ | Edward Luttwak

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How Trump could hit Iran

Once again it is up to Trump (Alex Wong/Getty)

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January 16, 2026 at 10:01 AM

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Robert Jenrick’s defection highlights the Conservatives’ structural dilemma.

They cannot regain credibility without admitting past failures, writes Peter Franklin👇

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January 16, 2026 at 7:15 AM

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Can CBS resurrect the ideal of neutrality in an age when most news is consumed through highly personalised social media feeds? The network faces an uphill battle | Emily Jashinsky

CBS Trump interview: the last gasp of a dying model

With the media’s attention fixed on CBS, Tony Dokoupil marked his second week in the Evening News chair with a presidential interview from Detroit. Are Dokoupil and CBS News editor-in-chief Bari…

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January 15, 2026 at 6:00 PM

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The number of UK abortions in 2023 reached 277,970, an 11% increase from 2022, according to new Government data | UnHerd Staff

Abortions reach record high in UK

The number of abortions carried out in England and Wales has reached its highest level since the Abortion Act was introduced in 1967, according to Government statistics published today. The number of…

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January 15, 2026 at 4:00 PM

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‘Here was a man, Robert Moses, who had never been elected to anything, and he had enough power to turn around a whole state government in one day.’ | Ben Cobley

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Mauritania's mass-deportation savagery

African migrants are being plucked off the streets. Photo: Getty

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January 15, 2026 at 2:01 PM

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Kemi Badenoch this morning sacked Robert Jenrick and kicked him out of the Tory Party, citing evidence he was planning to defect to Reform UK. It puts the former shadow justice secretary in an impossible position | Loïc Frémond
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Kemi Badenoch has proved her strength with Jenrick sacking

Kemi Badenoch is not well known for her political cunning. Her leadership of the Conservatives has been marked by accusations of intransigence and bluntness, often to her detriment, and an apparent…

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January 15, 2026 at 1:02 PM

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‘Mauritania was able to turn the concept into action only because it is seemingly willing to exercise despotism and brutalise those it now deems unwelcome.’ | Josef Skrdlik and Oliver Dunn

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Mauritania's mass-deportation savagery

African migrants are being plucked off the streets. Photo: Getty

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January 15, 2026 at 12:00 PM

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More English children are starting school unable to hold a pencil or recognise their own name. An atmosphere of extreme tolerance has lowered basic standards | Stella O’Malley

Gentle parenting is leaving kids unprepared for school

At the weekend, the Financial Times reported that growing numbers of children are starting school unable to grip a pencil, hold a knife and fork, go to the toilet, or even recognise their own name.…

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January 15, 2026 at 11:00 AM

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‘The pool of talent in the entertainment industry may well go the way of that in politics: dismal and packed with dopey masochists.’ | Poppy Sowerby

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The Marty Supreme witch hunt

‘A’zion is undeniably a nepo baby. She is also an excellent actress.’ (Christopher Polk/Penske Media/Getty)

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January 15, 2026 at 10:00 AM

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‘Those supporting males competing against females have shunned a belief in objective facts’ | Lisa Selin Davis
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January 14, 2026 at 6:30 PM

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In dealing with Maccabi fans, West Midlands Police's reliance on faulty technology led to a series of human errors | Dominic Adler

Outsourcing Maccabi decision to AI shames West Midlands Police

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood this afternoon stated that she no longer has confidence in the head of West Midlands Police, after it was revealed that the force used AI in compiling its risk…

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January 14, 2026 at 5:00 PM

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'A new approach to global politics, one that enables it to push its case around disputed islands and maritime routes in Asia, will be of great interest.’ | Rana Mitter

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China doesn’t fear the Donroe Doctrine

Trump and Xi’s first face-to-face meeting in six years in October 2025 (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/ Getty).

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January 14, 2026 at 2:00 PM

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'Who are we to contradict medical diagnoses, not least when vast university bureaucracies are now structured to uphold and defer to such things?' | Paul Sagar

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Why do so many students have ADHD?

Are the kids alright? (Jean-Pierre Muller/AFP/ Getty)

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January 14, 2026 at 12:00 PM

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Yesterday Ed Davey hit out against the House of Lords’ scrutiny of the assisted dying bill. Does he understand the raison d’être of the upper house? | Yuan Yi Zhu

Why is Ed Davey criticising scrutiny of assisted dying bill?

Liberal Democrats leader Ed Davey voted against the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill last year because he thought disabled and elderly people might feel the pressure to kill themselves if…

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January 14, 2026 at 11:00 AM

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‘If you want to not get stabbed to death, you’re better off in London than in almost any other big city in the West.’ | Tom Chivers

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