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Tory Foreign Office minister used official visit to Azerbaijan to promote party donor’s business

Leo Docherty posed on one of Lord Bamford’s JCB diggers in Baku when the company wanted to ‘raise their profile’ in the country

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Oxford relying on ‘Deliveroo-style’ contracts with most tutorials not taught by full-time staff

Leading university accused of relying on young academics employed on gig-economy terms

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Tory donor Lord Bamford funds helicopter flight for Nigel Farage

Ally of Boris Johnson gave Reform UK leader a £8,000 trip to tour his JCB site, raising eyebrows among Conservatives

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Announcing the Texas Observer’s Editor-in-Chief

A strong and clear editorial vision, committed to the values we’ve upheld at the Texas Observer for 70 years, is critical to not only the future of our organization, but the future of Texas and all who live here.

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The downfall of The Guardian: from The Observer sale to quitting X, and potential job losses

With Labour in power, the paper should be driving the agenda – instead, it’s at war with itself

Evening Standard

Pride and Prejudice in Princeton, Texas

A school board vote to cancel a summer Pride event represented one of the first government-sponsored cancellations of the LGBTQ+ celebration in the Lone Star State.

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Death in UK immigration removal centre is the first believed to be linked to the drug spice

Staff at Brook House had warned it was ‘only a matter of time’ before someone died as a result of taking the drug

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Labour under fire for failing to name MPs for key EU role

Calls for UK to work more closely with the EU on everything from defence and trade to immigration grow following Trump’s re-election

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We will fight Trump’s plans to slap tariffs on the UK – Rachel Reeves

The chancellor will make the case for free trade as Labour is warned that it must choose between the United States and the European Union

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In no great rush to get back to the office? UK home workers may not have a choice

Supermarket chain Asda has joined the growing number of firms demanding staff return to the workplace. Does this signal the end for remote working or is it a new battle line?

The Guardian - UK

Texas Will Be on the ‘Front Lines’ of Mass Deportation

“We're going to defend our immigrant communities from Trump's attacks, while we hold Trump and people like Elon Musk accountable for spreading lies and scapegoating immigrants.”

Texas Observer

12-year-old boy suffocated after being forced to sleep in tiny tent at wilderness camp. No one will face charges

The camp has since been shut down and had its license revoked

The Independent UK

Rachel Cusk wins Goldsmiths prize for novel ‘that turns the world inside out’

Parade, which focuses on three artists, all named G, takes this year’s honour for mould-breaking fiction

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From satire to defiance: The political power of Abu Abraham’s cartoons

I can’t really claim I had a well-developed political understanding at the age of six years when the Emergency was imposed by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1975. But I do have a visceral political memory of the times, the black cloud of suffocation as well as the spirit of…

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‘No Trust, No Bond’: Houston School Bond Fails amid State Takeover Backlash

“In my 33 years as an educator, I’ve never known teachers to come out against a bond. I’ve never seen so much community involvement and participation, mainly because we do not trust Mike Miles.”

The Guardian - UK

A decade ago, my father suffered alone and in misery. Why do dementia sufferers still face the same fate?

Launched in the Observer, John’s Campaign aims to give frail people the right to be accompanied by those who love them

The Guardian - UK

Off-White: The Truth About Antisemitism by Rachel Shabi review – racism by any other name

In this sharp and engaging book, Shabi addresses the need to understand and confront antisemitism at a time when it is being downplayed by parts of the left and exploited by others on the right

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Addicted to love: how dating apps ‘exploit’ their users

Online services that promise to find people romantic matches have been likened to gambling products designed to keep customers hooked

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Moldova votes for president in runoff election as Russia hovers

Pro-EU president Maia Sandu faces Alexandr Stoianoglo in polls marred by accusations of Kremlin vote-buying

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Labour challenges Badenoch to back billions for public services and tax rises

Rachel Reeves throws down budget gauntlet to new Tory chief as party’s first black leader is congratulated on win

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Revealed: English neo-Nazi who stabbed asylum seeker was serial stalker

Terrorist Callum Parslow was previously jailed for sending 10 women sexually explicit and misogynistic messages, and targeted a former GB News presenter

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‘It’s created an internal shitstorm’: turmoil at UK law firm accused of ‘whitewashing’ Saudi World Cup report

Sources say key people at Clifford Chance were not consulted, as it emerges another company refused job due to reputational concerns

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Kemi Badenoch elected new Conservative leader – as it happened

Badenoch says Tories need ‘a clear plan to change this country by changing the way that government works’

The Guardian - UK

Gliff by Ali Smith review – reading the signs of crisis

Two children decode a dystopia, in a chilling and wistful novel that speaks to our times

Texas Observer

Editor’s Letter: Introducing Our November/December Issue

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