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‘Why should I study Russian?’ Ukraine lobbies UK to introduce Ukrainian GCSE
Ukraine is lobbying the UK government to give teenage refugees who fled the war-torn country the chance to study a GCSE in Ukrainian, amid reports they are instead being pressed to study Russian.
Ukraine’s education ministry has written to the education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, to say it is “crucial” to …
Body of woman found inside property after Norwich house fire
The body of a woman has been found in a property on the outskirts of Norwich after a house fire, police said.
Officers were called to assist the fire service at 4.22am on Boxing Day after reports of the blaze at a residential property to the north of the East …
The real test for Nigel Farage will be if donors follow foot soldiers to Reform
On brand as ever, Nigel Farage got the news that Reform appears to have
surpassed the Tories in membership numbers
while attending a traditional Boxing Day hunt.He was filmed for TikTok and Instagram wearing tweeds and a flat-cap, getting the news on his phone. He said: …
Painstaking work to conserve Ireland’s oldest paper documents begins
Work has begun to conserve and digitise one of the oldest paper documents still in existence on the island of Ireland.
The ecclesiastical register, which dates back to the medieval period, is about 650 years old. It belonged to the former archbishop of Armagh Milo Sweteman.
Its delicate pages are …
MPs do not – and should not – always follow judicial orders | Letters
Stephen Sedley, writing of parliament’s freedom of speech and action, says it has “for centuries reciprocated by respecting court decisions and orders” (
). This is to forget, for example, the 2011 naming, in defiance of court orders, ofRyan Giggs
andFred Goodwin
, …Police surveillance of journalists in Northern Ireland | Letters
Labour must not duck House of Lords reform this time | Brief letters
So more appointments to the House of Patronage (
Sue Gray given peerage as Labour seeks to rebalance Lords, 20 December
). And more ludicrous titles. A Labour government with a huge majority has a unique opportunity finally to sort out the Lords. All it requires is political will. …Reform UK claims to be ‘real opposition’ with more members than Tories
Reform UK has said it believes it now has more members than the Conservatives, surpassing 131,000 on Boxing Day.
The party said it had hit the milestone of 131,680, which is the number of members the Conservatives had when Kemi Badenoch won the leadership election in the autumn.
In a …
The first quarter of 21st century wasn’t great for investors. The next needs an AI boost | Nils Pratley
The first quarter of the 21st century is almost up, assuming one regards 31 December 1999 to have been the last day of the last millennium (non-partying pedants insist the date actually fell on the final day of 2000). It is the cue for analysts at Deutsche Bank to remind …
Katt Williams, crypto and cat ladies: 2024 was the year of unexpected second chances
If 2024 was defined by anything, it was a distinct feeling of deja vu. Donald Trump ran and won, Death Cab and Janet Jackson
, and aesthetes on social medialusted after
Windows Vista design language circa 2007. Same old, same old – almost. …