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    The Last of Us recap: season two, episode four – now that is what you call romance

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    How to start … anything: expert tips for trying something new

    From therapy to running and conversing with strangers, we asked experts what the basics are of starting anything new
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    Why India wants to halt auction of Piprahwa gems from 'sacred body of the Buddha'

    Ministers claim sale in Hong Kong is unlawful and are demanding repatriation of relics buried in third-century BC
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      We’re having sex inside Moby Dick! The wild architectural world of Japan’s love hotels

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      Catholicism
      Pope Francis leaves mixed legacy on role of women in Catholic church

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    Look at how Reform speaks about minorities. Why would Labour want to mimic this nasty party?

    Frances Ryan
    The British public is more liberal and tolerant than you would believe from our politicians. Time for Keir Starmer to appeal to Britain’s best side
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    Harry’s TV interview told us everything – and nothing. Why are the royals such terrible communicators?

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    Amid the Trump film tariffs fallout, Nigel Farage claims Reform is now the UK’s main opposition party
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    Trump’s attack on the film industry is a sign of xenophobic contempt

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    By insisting tariffs on films at least partly produced outside the US, the president is trying to limit the important worldview of cinema
    • Clockwise from top left: Boris Johnson, Kemi Badenoch, Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss.

      Let’s be clear: this Conservative party is dead. Those who killed it should own up so we can move on

      Justine Greening
    • Layla Moran

      We all know the crisis in UK social care damages lives and the economy: it’s the Treasury we must convince

      Layla Moran
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      I watched a woman clear her shower drain – and realised I had to get my own life in order

      Emma Beddington
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      Memo to Harry: megaphone diplomacy isn’t working. You could write to your dad – it only costs a stamp

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    How the climate crisis threatens Indigenous traditions in Canada: ‘It’s not the way it used to be’

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    Hard-right party says only St George’s and union jack flags to be permitted on or in its English council properties
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      UK access to EU crime and illegal migration data reportedly denied

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      Family pays tribute to ‘caring and loving boy’ killed in Gateshead fire

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      Trump’s foreign film tariffs could ‘wipe out’ UK movie industry, ministers told

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      Gold mining suspended in Peru’s north after 13 miners killed

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      Search for two young children missing in forest enters fourth day

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