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Is Prince Harry’s Taliban disclosure a security threat?

Of the many revelations that have leaked from Prince Harry’s forthcoming memoir Spare, perhaps most striking is the declaration that the Duke of Sussex killed 25 Taliban fighters. According to the Prince, these killings took place while he was serving as an Apache helicopter pilot during his second tour of Afghanistan. Prince Harry served in the army for ten years, including in the Helmand province, ending his military career at the rank of captain in June 2015.
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Ill Croydon kitten given donations for treatment against viral disease

An ill Croydon kitten has received donations which will help to fund treatment against a serious viral disease. Millie, a ragdoll born in April 2022, suffers from Feline Infectious Peritonitis (FIP), a viral disease caused by strains of the feline coronavirus. After being told treatment would cost around £5,000, her owner Charlotte Williams, a 33-year-old financial adviser from south Croydon, used GoFundMe to gain support.
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Labour lead drops to just 11%, new poll

It’s Christmas, and in a manner not too dissimilar to Charles Dickens’ Ebenezer Scrooge, Sir Keir Starmer is being haunted by his Ghost of Christmas Past. How so? Through a new Savanta poll which reveals Labour’s polling lead has fallen to *just* 11%. Polled between 2 and 4 December, Labour enjoyed 42% of national support, compared to 31% for the Conservatives, 10% for the Lib Dems, 5% for the Reform Party and the SNP at 4%. This marks the lowest Labour lead and vote share from Savanta since th
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What does strike chaos mean for the future of rail?

Rishi Sunak is scrambling to respond to large-scale industrial action threatening to grind the country to a halt. The sheer number of professions taking strike action this month, and the chaos it will create, led Education Secretary Gillian Keegan to endorse widening the list of workers banned from striking. Both the police and military are currently banned, with Keegan suggesting NHS staff and others in “critical infrastructure” roles could join them.
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Will Rishi Sunak target foreign students in immigration crackdown?

Rishi Sunak is mulling a crackdown on foreign students arriving in the UK. But will he go through with it? He’s certainly under pressure to do something, after ONS data sent shockwaves around the nation yesterday as it emerged net migration rose by more than half a million in the year to June 2022. With more than half coming from bespoke humanitarian schemes for Ukraine (89,000), Afghanistan (21,000) and Hong Kong (76,000), another 227,000 arrived on student visas, double the previous year.
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Dehenna Davison joins the list of young Tory MPs leaving Parliament

The exodus of young MPs from the Conservative party is gathering pace, conjuring unfortunate comparisons with rats and sinking ships. Today, Dehenna Davison, Tory MP for Bishop Auckland, became the latest to announce that she will stand down at the next general election. Elected only in 2019, she won a seat held by Labour since 1935. Heralded as the latest generation of Conservative MPs, the 29-year-old said she wanted to devote more time to “life outside politics – mainly to my family”.
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Boris Johnson isn't the only one to profit from his political fall

While the country faces a killer combo of higher taxes and lower public spending, it’s encouraging to see some people are not suffering – economically at least. While the political fortunes of Boris Johnson may be terminal after his unsuccessful attempt at a resurrection last month, on the money front, the former Prime Minister has seen an end to his own boom and bust, as Gordon Brown would put it.
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