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Friday briefing: The answers to our quiz are in – how much of 2025 did you remember?

In today’s newsletter: From the right number of French prime ministers to the pasttimes of Archie Bland’s dog – here are answers to our inaugural Christmas Day quiz.

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Thursday briefing: A short quiz on a very long year – how many questions can you answer about 2025?

Welcome to the newsletter’s first end-of-year quiz. Test yourself on culture, technology and assorted political chaos – and check back on 26 December to see how you fared

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The Gaza discourse has been Vylanised – but that diversionary strategy just doesn’t work any more

Those appalled by Israel’s actions in Gaza, and the kind of media frenzy prompted by Bob Vylan’s Glastonbury appearance, are finding their voice, says Archie Bland, editor of the Guardian’s First Edition newsletter

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UK politics: ‘Bungling Badenoch’ under fire after suggesting Starmer wrong to miss PMQs for Nato summit – as it happened

Liberal Democrats say Conservative leader focused on ‘cheap point scoring’ and her MPs are in ‘open revolt’

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Life before and after nearly losing a child

Letter: Faaiza Munir responds to Archie Bland’s article about his son and shares her own life-altering experience

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With a new hit film, Netflix has reduced disabled lives to feelgood fodder – and got the facts shockingly wrong

This story about a child with cerebral palsy is badly misleading – and a slap in the face for families like ours, says Archie Bland, editor of the Guardian’s First Edition, and Ruth Spencer, a former editor at Guardian US

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Your phone buzzes with a news alert. But what if AI wrote it – and it’s not true?

The BBC said Apple Intelligence’s weirdly wrong output sullied its reputation. Apple eventually paused the tool – but its reaction was deeply worrying, says Archie Bland, editor of the Guardian’s First Edition newsletter

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International aid organisations welcome ceasefire deal – as it happened

Netanyahu says ‘final details’ of deal still being worked on; two American hostages to be free in first phase, reports say

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The era of the BBC mega-salary may end with Gary Lineker. But is that necessarily a good thing?

This may be a rational move – but it should not be used as an argument to hack away at the corporation until it has little left to offer, says Archie Bland, editor of the Guardian’s First Edition newsletter

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Best podcasts of the week: Sheridan Smith’s dangerously bingeable Margate murder mystery

In this week’s newsletter: A serial killer strikes the seaside town in The Margate Murders. Plus: in celebration of its 10th anniversary, five of the best Guardian audio long reads

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The crisis-hit Tories need good advice. Will they really get it from Michael Gove’s Spectator?

The Speccie was a wise voice compared to the rest of the rightwing media. But can it remain so within the stable of the man who owns GB News, asks Archie Bland, editor of the Guardian’s First Edition newsletter

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The brains behind QI bring you an Olympic-sized quiz show

Question-setters Anna Ptaszynski and James Harkin get in the competitive spirit with Quite a Good Sport. Plus: five of the best podcasts about America

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There’s an article I shouldn’t tell you about – is contempt law in a losing battle with reality?

The concept behind the Contempt of Court Act is laudable, but in the age of social media it is clear an update is needed, says Archie Bland, editor of the Guardian’s First Edition newsletter

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Winning over the Times and the Sun won’t decide the next election – but Starmer’s Labour can’t kick the habit

Despite the polls, the leader wants them on side for an endorsement. Yet why bother if it would make little difference to voter numbers?, asks First Edition editor Archie Bland

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Tory party must face up to Islamophobia in its ranks

Letters: Paul McGilchrist, George Duoblys and Toby Roddham on the racist rhetoric that is now commonplace among Conservative members

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Sunak, his media allies – maybe even Lee Anderson – know Sadiq Khan is no Islamist. This is tactical racism

The label ‘Islamist’ is being used to stir up anti-Muslim feeling for political ends, says Archie Bland, Guardian First Edition newsletter editor

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Welcome to the age of the ‘dadcast’: ubiquitous, lucrative – and a bit boring

Identikit podcasts featuring men of a certain age and character – think George Osborne and Alastair Campbell – are elbowing out innovation, says Archie Bland, editor of the Guardian’s First Edition newsletter

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Piers Morgan will find many ways to deny phone hacking – but how long before his number is up?

Following a judge’s ruling in favour of Prince Harry, his confected outrage is starting to look a little desperate, says Archie Bland, editor of the Guardian’s First Edition newsletter

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How the Daily Mail became the Boris and Dorries show – and left middle England behind

Its new star columnists are symptoms, but not the cause, of the newspaper no longer being quite sure what it stands for, says Archie Bland, editor of the Guardian’s First Edition newsletter

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It’s not that everyone agrees with Gary Lineker, it’s that he offers a moral clarity missing everywhere else

It is obvious that director general Tim Davie and those who pushed him into error misread the public mood, says Guardian journalist Archie Bland

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Minister unable to say whether Zahawi was telling truth when he first said taxes were fully paid – as it happened

Labour MP asks whether Zahawi statement in the summer was untrue, with Cabinet Office minister saying he does not know the answer

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What happened in the Russia-Ukraine war this week? Catch up with the must-read news and analysis

Kerch bridge attacked; Russia launches strikes across Ukraine; winter weaponised

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Friday briefing: How extreme heat is changing the way we live

In today’s newsletter: The climate crisis effects everyone, in different and unequal ways. Archie Bland takes a look at how this week’s scalding temperatures have played out on each continent

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Boris Johnson promises action on cost of living crisis but says higher wages risk further inflation – as it happened

In a wide-ranging speech on housing, the cost of living and Ukraine, the PM warns of danger of ‘wage-price spiral’

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The Guardian launches multi-platform marketing campaign to promote new First Edition newsletter

The Guardian, in partnership with in-house creative agency OLIVER and Omnicom Media Group’s PHD, has this week launched a range of new marketing creatives across the UK to support the launch of its flagship current affairs newsletter, First Edition.

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