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Spoty 2024 is Murray and Anderson’s final farewell and I may sue for severe distress | Emma John
It’s BBC Sports Personality of the Year on Tuesday, so ask yourself: are you prepared for montage season? It’s dangerous to go into these things cold. You never know which clips are going to hijack your limbic system and leave you a gulping, snot-strewn mess. It could be Keely Hodgkinson …
South Korean court begins review of president’s impeachment over martial law
South Korea’s constitutional court has begun reviewing the impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol over his
attempt to impose martial law on 3 December
, a process that will decide if he is removed from office.The court will hold the first public hearing on 27 December, the …
Tories spent only a quarter of money allocated to levelling up
The Conservatives spent only a quarter of the money they allocated to levelling up, according to freedom of information requests that underline how Michael Gove’s flagship regional spending scheme failed to live up to expectations.
The previous government allocated £10.6bn to the three main schemes under the levelling up programme, …
Monday briefing: What do we know about Prince Andrew and the alleged Chinese spy?
Good morning. Espionage is an obviously mysterious business, but there can be fewer greater puzzles in the annals of national security than the one that has arisen in the last few days. If you were the mighty Chinese state, and making a list of British public figures who might hold …
Xi Jinping urges party to ‘turn knife inward’ to tackle corruption
Chinese President Xi Jinping has said internal divisions within the ruling Communist party were inevitable but that it must “turn the knife inward” to instil discipline, in a newly disclosed call to root out corrupt officials.
The remarks were made at a meeting of the anti-graft watchdog in January, but …
Starwatch: Ursids meteor shower to appear in largely dark sky
Another week, another meteor shower. Last week it was the highly reliable Geminids meteor shower, this week it is the lesser shower known as the Ursids. Whereas the Geminids were disrupted by the presence of a full moon, the Ursids will appear in a largely dark sky. Only after midnight …
Serbian authorities using spyware to illegally surveil activists, report finds
Police and intelligence services in Serbia are using advanced mobile forensics products and previously unknown spyware to illegally surveil journalists, environmental campaigners and civil rights activists, according to a report.
mobile forensic products from the Israeli firm Cellebrite are used to unlock and …‘Something horrible’: Somerset pit reveals bronze age cannibalism
A collection of human bones discovered 50 years ago in a Somerset pit are evidence of the bloodiest known massacre in British prehistory – and of bronze age cannibalism, archaeologists say.
At least 37 men, women and children were killed at some point between 2200BC and 2000BC, with their …
Chancellor’s call for civil service savings will sound all too familiar to Whitehall
Experienced Whitehall officials would have been forgiven for experiencing a sense of deja vu when listening to the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, this month as she laid out her plans to drive efficiencies from the civil service as part of her spending review.
“The previous government allowed millions of pounds of …