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Reform UK says two £36m donations from crypto billionaires are entirely lawful. The awkward truth is that the law may be about to change underneath the money — and the party’s certainty depends on facts it has not publicly proved.
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A Russian drone hit a locomotive near Ukraine’s border with Poland minutes after a diplomatic train carrying Boris Johnson and European officials passed through. That is serious. The claim that Johnson’s train was deliberately targeted remains an allegation, not an established fact.
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The government has sold healthier school dinners as a generational reset. The less appetising truth is that the ban-heavy rules are still proposals, the enforcement system is unfinished, and the bill for making them work has not been settled.
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A real protest, real arrests and a real new face-covering law have been welded online into a cleaner culture-war story than the evidence can support.
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The disorder at Eastney Marina was not a policy debate conducted loudly. It was a public-order failure involving damaged emergency vehicles, injured officers and masked men now being sought. The harder question is why the state appeared to be learning in real time.
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Donald Trump has now backed Irish reunification repeatedly. The striking British response is not a diplomatic row but a reminder that, under the Good Friday Agreement, neither the US president nor Westminster gets to decide Northern Ireland’s future.
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