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STEPHEN GLOVER: Crude threats like this show the BBC truly has got its head in the sand 

STEPHEN GLOVER: The outgoing director general of the BBC, Tony Hall, wrote a piece in this newspaper last week in which he claimed the Corporation was eager to have a public debate.




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PICTURED: Thousands of Mexican migrants camp out on roads and bridges to enter United States

The total number of Mexican adults crossing the border spiked by 25 per cent from late July to late September, while migration from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador declined.




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'The most important YES in my life': Man City star Oleksandr Zinchenko proposes to his girlfriend

On Monday, Zinchenko helped his side to Euro 2020 qualification with a win over Portugal in Kiev and his week got even better when his girlfriend, Vlada Sedan, agreed to marry him.




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Chris Brown looks solemn in Bondi after Kassandra Clementi held hands with friend

His actress ex-girlfriend Kassandra Clementi was pictured wandering around Sydney hand-in-hand with a female pal.




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Kyle Sandilands is selling video shout-outs for a whopping $1,000

His extravagant fee makes him more expensive than other celebrities like superstar rapper Snoop Dogg, actor Charlie Sheen and Rob Kardashian's ex Blac Chynna.




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Thousands of British Airways passengers across US are hit by canceled flights and delays of 23 hours

Thousands of British Airways passengers across the US and around the world have been affected by canceled flights and delays of up to 23 hours after a 'technical issue'.




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Bailout of the giants: Biggest firms put thousands of staff on furlough - and we face £60bn bill 

British Airways, Nissan and Arcadia have joined McDonald's and Primark in furloughing UK staff, with experts fearing that 6.1million private sector workers could be furloughed.




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Bernie Sanders calls Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu a 'racist'

Sanders (pictured at the Los Angeles debate) said he supported Israel's 'right to exist in peace and security' but said US policy should be both pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian, earning applause.




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Royal chef says Princess Diana would spend Christmas alone as she felt sons should be at Sandringham

Darren McGrady, a former chef to the Queen who later worked for Princess Diana, said that the Army was enlisted to help transport the food and supplies to the Queen's Norfolk estate.




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RICHARD KAY: The secrets of Sandringham, scene of today's royal showdown

RICHARD KAY: Of all the royal homes, Sandringham House is the least stuffy: less formal than Buckingham Palace, not so steeped in history as Windsor Castle and less baronial than Balmoral.




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Alessandra Rich reveals she was inspired by Princess Diana to start her fashion brand

Speaking during an interview with Tatler's Bystander, the Italian-born designer who is based in London, said she tries to 'embody the spirit of history's polite rebels like Princess Diana'.




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Accrington Stanley owner warns 'thousands of players' will be left out of work due to coronavirus

Andy Holt suggests football clubs should go into 'protective hibernation' to safeguard their futures during this uncertain period and fears games may not be played in front of crowds for a long time.




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Target for slashing immigration to tens of thousands not included in Boris Johnson plan

Boris Johnson wants to use the Australian immigration system as a template for Britain if he becomes PM. But his current plan does not include a target or pledge to reduce net migration.




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UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin slams Florentino Perez's proposal to form breakaway competition

Perez is thought to have held discussions with FIFA president Gianni Infantino surrounding the ambitious proposals. His vision is believed to feature two separate leagues with 20 teams in each.




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DOMINIC SANDBROOK reveals how Falklands War made UK finally begin to feel good about itself again

DOMINIC SANDBROOK: For Rex Hunt, Thursday, April 1, 1982 began like any other day. It was a lovely, bright morning, but in his sprawling Victorian house in the little town of Stanley, Falkland Islands.




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Even with Thatcher in No10, the early 80s workplace was full of chauvinism, writes DOMINIC SANDBROOK

DOMINIC SANDBROOK: A few years earlier, many professions had been virtually all-male. In the City, women were not allowed on the floor of the Stock Exchange until March 1973.




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DOMINIC SANDBROOK: For Britain's sake, this is a gamble Boris Johnson MUST win 

DOMINIC SANDBROOK: 'To some extent,' wrote Boris Johnson in his book about his hero Winston Churchill, 'all politicians are gamblers with events.




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DOMINIC SANDBROOK: Jeremy Corbyn is silent on racists standing for his own party 

DOMINIC SANDBROOK: We are only a few days into the election campaign and the conspiracy theories have already begun.




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Germaine Greer, King Alfred and Rees-Mogg vilified by thought Stasi, writes DOMINIC SANDBROOK

DOMINIC SANDBROOK: The real threat to free speech comes not from a totalitarian government. It comes from UK university campuses that are supposed to be hotbeds of debate and disagreement.




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DOMINIC SANDBROOK: How Boris Johnson became the poshest working-class hero since Winston Churchill

Like Johnson, Churchill refined his image, endlessly practising his supposedly spontaneous quips. He, too, had conspicuous flaws, drank too much, told tall tales and played to the gallery.




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A suicide note to make the '80s loony left blush, writes Dominic Sandbrook

DOMINIC SANDBROOK: In my lifetime, Labour have published more than a dozen manifestos, some saner than others.




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DOMINIC SANDBROOK imagines the fallout of Labour's first weeks in power

DOMINIC SANDBROOK: Exactly 100 days since Jeremy Corbyn became Prime Minister, his Momentum fan club have sent red roses to mark the occasion.




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DOMINIC SANDBROOK: Corbyn didn't understand patriotism

DOMINIC SANDBROOK: To future generations, the names of toppled Labour strongholds will tell the story of Boris Johnson's tidal wave.




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Dominic Sandbrook: Farewell to the hate mobs' joyless intolerance

DOMINIC SANDBROOK: The 2010s has been a decade of increasingly strident and intolerant political correctness, with institutions such as the Church of England taking more extreme positions.




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We've never had it so good! DOMINIC SANDBROOK on a divisive decade

DOMINIC SANDBROOK: So how will we remember the 2010s? It was a decade of austerity, great patriotic spectacles, royal weddings and the triumphant London Olympics.




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It's time for the EU to be realistic about a trade deal, writes DOMINIC SANDBROOK

DOMINIC SANDBROOK: Britain's departure shows the EU is not the end of history and it is perfectly possible to get off the train, however clumsy our departure may have looked.




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DOMINIC SANDBROOK looks back at how the 1973 dream soured

DOMINIC SANDBROOK: We've packed our bags and bought our tickets, and on Friday evening we are off. Whatever you think of the decision, there is no doubt this is a landmark in our modern history.




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DOMINIC SANDBROOK: My plan to save the BBC? A cheap licence for the basics

DOMINIC SANDBROOKE: This week, as Culture Secretary Nicky Morgan launches a 'consultation' to discuss the licence fee, the BBC's future genuinely seems more uncertain than ever before.




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DOMINIC SANDBROOK on the Royal Family's opportunity from this crisis

DOMINIC SANDBROOK: The new slimmed down Royal Family is a good thing, though I don't for a moment underestimate the strain it has placed upon our 93-year-old Queen.




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Coronavirus is a deadly wake-up call, writes historian DOMINIC SANDBROOK

DOMINIC SANDBROOK: We pride ourselves on our supremacy over the natural world and our mastery of science. But as the last week has shown, our modernity has made us weaker than ever.




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DOMINIC SANDBROOK: Boris Johnson is wrong to make a jibe at Margaret Thatcher

DOMINIC SANDBROOK: Boris Johnson's reference to 'society' in Sunday night's video was a rebuke to Margaret Thatcher's controversial remarks, made in an interview in the late Eighties.




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DOMINIC SANDBROOK: The recovery that followed The Great Depression should give us hope

DOMINIC SANDBROOK: Even optimists admit that some businesses will not be replaced. Not every neighbourhood restaurant will reopen. Not every furloughed worker will stroll back into a job.




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Universities are begging for bailout after years of over-expansion, says DOMINIC SANDBROOK

DOMINIC SANDBROOK: Have you ever wondered what a perfect storm looks like? Just take a look at Britain's universities. Crippled by corruption and greed they stand on the brink of disaster.




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DOMINIC SANDBROOK: Corbyn didn't understand patriotism

DOMINIC SANDBROOK: To future generations, the names of toppled Labour strongholds will tell the story of Boris Johnson's tidal wave.




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Vanderpump Rules: Tom Sandoval cries after wedding invite rescinded and Ariana Madix sobs during low

The 36-year-old reality star cried after his wedding invite was rescinded and Ariana Madix, 34, sobbed during a 'very rare' depression low on Tuesday's episode of Vanderpump Rules.




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DOMINIC SANDBROOK: The recovery that followed The Great Depression should give us hope

DOMINIC SANDBROOK: Even optimists admit that some businesses will not be replaced. Not every neighbourhood restaurant will reopen. Not every furloughed worker will stroll back into a job.




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DOMINIC SANDBROOK's first look at David Cameron's memoirs

Much of David Cameron's book is overshadowed by the inevitability of Britain's EU exit, which gives the whole thing a defensive, even melancholy air, says DOMINIC SANDBROOK.




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Theresa May set to earn THOUSANDS after signing up to top US public speaking agency

The former prime minister, who was humiliated by 'coughgate' during her 2017 Conservative conference speech, has signed up with the Washington Speakers Bureau (WSB).




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Alessandra Ambrosio gets leggy in a black mini-dress at the unveiling of her wax statue in NYC

Alessandra Ambrosio got leggy in a black mini-dress at the unveiling of her wax statue at Madame Tussauds in New York City on Thursday.




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Sandra Bullock skips the Golden Globes red carpet to make a splash in a showstopping golden gown

Bullock, 55, positively shined in the strapless gown, which was made of subtly reflective textured gold fabric arranged in tastefully overlarge ruffles that cascaded down the front.




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Sandra Bullock is a blue jean baby as the 55-year-old adopts casual look for business meeting

Sandra Bullock dressed a little more casually on Thursday, when the 55-year-old star head to a Beverly Hills meeting wearing ripped jeans.




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Jennifer Aniston compares notes with Sandra Bullock about dating the same guy

Sandra Bullock and Jennifer Aniston first met when the actor Tate Donovan introduced them at a Golden Globes party in the 90s.




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Bernie Sanders pleads with supporters not to protest at the DNC

'Together, my friends, we have begun a political revolution to transform America and that revolution – our revolution – continues,' Sanders said.




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Democratic National Convention opening disrupted by Bernie Sanders supporters

Delegates shouted 'Bernie, Bernie' and booed every mention of Hillary Clinton in the opening session of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. Even the gavelling was a fiasco.




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Bernie Sanders supporters will try to unseat Tim Kaine as Vice President

Some of Sen. Bernie Sanders' progressive supporters want to pull Sen. Tim Kaine from the vice presidential slot and insert someone to the left of him instead.




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Bernie Sanders delegate Yolanda Gonzalez screams 'lock her up!' at DNC

Disgusted Sanders supporter Yolanda Gonzalez, pictured, screamed 'lock her up' at the Philadelphia convention as party leaders preached party unity.




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Bernie Sanders supporter Sarah Silverman is booed as she backs Hillary Clinton

Comedian Sarah Silverman exposed the fissures in the Democratic Party by telling the raucous crowd that while she felt the Bern it was time to support Hillary Clnton.




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Bernie Sanders supporter Susan Sarandon mocked online for grumpy showing at the DNC

Susan Sarandon is a staunch supporter of defeated candidate Bernie Sanders, and was unable to hide her rage during speeches at the Democratic convention in Philadelphia yesterday.




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Bernie Sanders urges supporters to support Hillary Clinton as they burst into tears

Bernie Sanders' speech in Philadelphia was too much to take for his most ardent fans, who were seen weeping as he praised them for joining him on his 'political revolution'.




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Bernie Sanders delegate says it's time to 'clean house' after DNC email hack 

Portia Boulger, of Chillicothe, Ohio, was filmed speaking after Sanders’ speech at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia on Monday.