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Trump increases pressure on Ukraine to accept US peace plan and calls for election
Kyiv readies ‘refined’ peace plan proposals amid intense diplomacy around Europe
Starmer wants ‘hard-edged’ guarantees for Ukraine yet the UK’s armed forces are too blunt
UK prime minister meets Volodymyr Zelenskiy and the leaders of France and Germany in Downing Street to discuss US-led peace initiative
Kremlin awaits update on US-Ukraine talks as battle for Pokrovsk continues
Trump claims Russia ‘is fine’ with peace proposals even as top Kremlin aide calls for ‘radical’ changes
We need Britain to get real about Brexit
Budgets in both Britain and Ireland have postponed difficult decisions in a manner that will reduce their room for manoeuvre when the next election looms
Russia says it has taken control of two villages in Ukraine
Defence ministry says air defences destroyed 77 Ukrainian drones launched overnight
Miriam Lord: What possessed Micheál Martin to post bonkers bus snap that made him look like a soap opera villain?
The Taoiseach grins in the driver’s seat while Sensible Simon steers the economy
Nigel Farage hits out at broadcasters as racism allegations continue to mount
Reform UK leader lashes out at BBC and ITV as more former classmates come forward with accounts of racist behaviour from his school years
Brexit’s back: Starmer flirts with EU as economic growth flatlines
UK prime minister says the notion that leaving the European Union would solve Britain’s woes has been ‘proven wrong’
Fish disco freakout: Starmer looks to change tune on obstacles to industrial investment
Laois man John Fingleton’s recommendations to cut the cost of nuclear development will be applied across Britain’s industrial strategy
What’s the Monarchy for? on BBC One: You can’t help but think, better them than us
Television: David Dimbleby’s rambling survey of the British crown is a free shot of smugness, served just before bedtime
Failure to join EU rearmament fund shows UK stuck in post-Brexit strategic cul-de-sac
EU and Canada seek greater autonomy from US, while Britain highlights ‘number one spear carrier’ role for Washington
Keir Starmer on the back foot: PM pleads for trust as budget backlash engulfs Labour
Claims of budget misrepresentation spark a bruising clash with Westminster press
All eyes on Reeves as she seeks £30bn to plug spending gap ahead of UK budget
All the leaking, pitch-rolling and backtracking in the pre-budget run-up has investors, employers and union bosses bewildered
SNP leader John Swinney: ‘Scotland and England are going in completely different directons’
Scotland’s nationalist first minister visits Dublin on Tuesday and Wednesday to talk economics, culture and space rockets
How the hardening of the UK’s immigration laws will affect Ireland
Northern Ireland’s post-Brexit deal may scupper Westminster’s plans
Britain’s asylum shake-up poses big problems for Ireland
What will happen to failed asylum applicants and migrants to the UK who have overstayed, and who can travel freely to Ireland?
Labour wrestles with its conscience over deportation of asylum seeker families
Kindertransport survivor calls policy ‘shabby’ as home secretary defends crackdown aimed at deterring Reform UK
UK toughens asylum policy in major overhaul as anti-immigration sentiment rises
Move by Keir Starmer’s Labour government seeks to stem rise of populist Reform UK party
Keir Starmer defies calls to sack Irish chief of staff Morgan McSweeney
Calls from Labour MPs for Irishman Morgan McSweeney’s resignation
Keir Starmer denies authorising ‘kneecap’ attack on health secretary amid leadership crisis
UK PM’s allies say he will fight attempts to replace him as Labour leader in advance of crucial budget
Tanita Tikaram: ‘The Beatles taught me to sing low’
The singer of Fijian and Malaysian descent penned her hit single, Twist in my Sobriety, when she was a ‘introverted, opinionated’ teenager
Rest in Paris: fancy your chances of being buried beside Oscar Wilde or Jim Morrison?
Plus: the thing Catherine Connolly and Keir Starmer have in common; the ‘lion’ on the loose in Co Clare; and a big job opening at the EPA
‘God only knows what will be tried’: EU leaders’ safety in Ireland comes under spotlight
Friendly warships and threats from drones: planning steps up for major summit in Ireland next year as part of the EU presidency
Zohran Mamdani is a throwback to a time when politicians weren’t all managerial centrists
I cannot help but bristle at those who take solace in boring politicians, as evidence of a stable system
One man remains in custody after mass stabbing on train in England, police say
Knife attack took place near Peterborough on service bound for London and left 11 people injured
Downing Street backs Rachel Reeves after she apologises for letting home without licence
With crucial budget looming, chancellor faces pressure over ‘inadvertent mistake’
UK police arrest wrongly-released sex offender who was meant to be sent for deportation
Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu arrested in London nearly three days after being freed in error
‘I’ve got an amazing múinteoir’: Kara Owen, the new British ambassador to Ireland
Owen talks about her marriage to a Galwegian, the Irish phrases that were common in her Cumbrian childhood, and her daunting Irish-speaking debut with Michael D Higgins
Human rights activist Michael Farrell: ‘We were in a period of progress, but now we seem to be galloping backwards’
Lawyer Michael Farrell represented transgender woman Lydia Foy after earning his stripes during the Troubles in the North
Complication for Keir Starmer as Lucy Powell wins Labour’s deputy leadership race
Manchester Central MP was sacked from UK cabinet in September
Labour unrest grows as Starmer faces pressure — could this rising MP be his successor?
Saxophone-playing former corporate lawyer Darren Jones has risen steeply through the ranks to become the PM’s right-hand man
Keir Starmer’s Labour suffers seismic byelection defeat to Plaid Cymru in Wales
Loss of Welsh assembly seat in stronghold deals blow to prime minister’s leadership
‘Do you have any friends in the IRA?’: how Russia’s hybrid war is sowing chaos across Europe
The trail from a Normandy pig farm has helped expose Russia’s campaign of sabotage across Europe aimed at inflaming division, spreading fear and weakeing support for Ukraine
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