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• 'People think their problems will go away' - is the Australian Dream dead?

  26-12-2025 22:58 via bbc.com
  British people are taking the plunge in search of better weather, a superior work-life balance and better pay.
  
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• Perry Bamonte, guitarist and keyboardist for the Cure, dies aged 65

  26-12-2025 22:06 via theguardian.com
  Starting as a roadie and guitar tech, Bamonte joined the band in 1990 after its breakthrough album DisintegrationPerry Bamonte, longtime guitarist and keyboard player for the Cure, has died aged 65.The musician, known affectionately as Teddy, passed away after a short illness over Christmas, the band announced on their website. Continue reading...
  
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• The Cure guitarist and keyboard player Perry Bamonte dies aged 65 - ITVX

  26-12-2025 21:47 via news.google.com
  The Cure guitarist and keyboard player Perry Bamonte dies aged 65  ITVXThe Cure guitarist Perry Bamonte dies aged 65  BBCPerry Bamonte, guitarist and keyboardist for the Cure, dies aged 65  The GuardianThe Cure's guitarist and keyboard player Perry Bamonte dies  Sky NewsPerry Bamonte, Guitarist and Keyboardist for the Cure, Dies at 65  Variety
  
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• Foreign medics shunning NHS because of anti-migrant rhetoric, says top doctor

  26-12-2025 21:00 via theguardian.com
  Exclusive: UK an ‘unwelcoming, racist’ country for overseas health workers, according to medical colleges leader‘The NHS would collapse within hours’: BME staff say Britain fails to appreciate their rolesForeign doctors and nurses are increasingly shunning the NHS because anti-migrant rhetoric and rising racism have created “a hostile environment”, the leader of Britain’s medics has warned.The health service is being put at risk because overseas health p
  
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• Winning Euromillions numbers LIVE: Full lottery results with Thunderball on 26 December

  26-12-2025 19:48 via express.co.uk
  The Euromillions draw is taking place tonight at 8.45pm.
  
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• M5 traffic: Boxing Day chaos as crash sparks road closure and huge delays

  26-12-2025 19:42 via express.co.uk
  Traffic started building up following the incident that sparked the closure of a exit slip road.
  
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• UK high street crisis laid bare after damning Boxing Day sales

  26-12-2025 19:36 via express.co.uk
  Data has suggested a grim showing by Britain's shopping streets today.
  
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• Bari Weiss defends decision to pull 60 Minutes episode on El Salvador prison

  26-12-2025 18:55 via theguardian.com
  CBS News editor-in-chief argues in memo that network’s priority was ‘comprehensive and fair’ coverageWho is Bari Weiss, the new editor-in-chief of CBS News?CBS News’ editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, defended her decision to pull a 60 Minutes episode on allegations investigating a notorious prison in El Salvador, arguing that the network’s priority was to ensure its coverage was “comprehensive and fair”.In the memo sent to staff on Christmas Eve, Weiss said n
  
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• The huge UK train line getting £589m upgrade across 76-mile track

  26-12-2025 18:40 via express.co.uk
  A £589m investment will transform the rail route into a faster connector for the North.
  
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• Stroud house fire LIVE: Boxing Day horror as three people 'unaccounted for' after blaze

  26-12-2025 18:34 via express.co.uk
  One person was able to get out of the property and was rushed to hospital.
  
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• The Guardian view on adapting to the climate crisis: it demands political honesty about extreme weather | Editorial

  26-12-2025 18:30 via theguardian.com
  Over the holiday period, the Guardian leader column is looking ahead at the themes of 2026. Today we look at how the struggle to adapt to a dangerously warming world has become a test of global justiceThe record-breaking 252mph winds of Hurricane Melissa that devastated Caribbean islands at the end of October were made five times more likely by the climate crisis. Scorching wildfire weather in Spain and Portugal during the summer was made 40 times more likely, while June’s heatwave in Engl
  
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• Your Guardian sport weekend: Premier League, Ashes and NFL

  26-12-2025 18:27 via theguardian.com
  Here’s how to follow along with our coverage – the finest writing and up-to-the-minute reports Continue reading...
  
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• Digested week: Like sex or massages, Christmas is even better when it stops | Lucy Mangan

  26-12-2025 18:03 via theguardian.com
  Despite doing twice as much work daily, I still have no free time at all. How? Plus, canal breaches and multiplying octopusesA canal in Shropshire has disappeared into a sinkhole. I paraphrase, but not by much. Continue reading...
  
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• Apple seeks to appeal against £1.5bn ruling it overcharged UK customers

  26-12-2025 18:00 via theguardian.com
  If appeal fails, every person in UK who made App Store purchases between 2015 and 2024 could be entitled to compensationApple is seeking to overturn a landmark £1.5bn court ruling on behalf of millions of UK customers, which found the company overcharged them for years in its App Store.The iPhone maker has applied to the court of appeal to challenge a verdict that campaigners heralded as the start of a “tidal shift against big tech”. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘A bat’s head’: the best and worst gifts 11 people have ever received

  26-12-2025 18:00 via theguardian.com
  Can we learn anything from the experiences of these Guardian readers? Exchanging gifts is delightful. It can also be fraught. How do you choose something the receiver will enjoy or find meaningful? And must you act pleased if you receive a tub of anti-cellulite cream?Eleven Guardian readers shared the best and worst gifts they have ever received. Can we learn anything from their experiences? Perhaps not: “Don’t just give something that appeals to you,” writes one, and “Al
  
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• Labour’s animal welfare strategy does not go far enough | Letters

  26-12-2025 17:59 via theguardian.com
  Readers respond to the government’s plans to improve the lot of animalsThe government’s strategy for animal welfare offers substantial improvements in the lot of kept animals but, in keeping with precedent, free-living wildlife is sold short (Editorial, 23 December). The law protecting wildlife is outdated and, as recommended by the Law Society, is ripe for review. Why, for example, have comprehensive protection for four of our native mustelids and almost nothing for the remaining tw
  
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• Storytelling is an ancient human art, not a corporate invention | Letters

  26-12-2025 17:58 via theguardian.com
  Danyah Miller responds to a pass notes column about companies that are hiring people to ‘own the narrative’Your article on the rise of storytelling as a corporate skill (Pass notes, 17 December) highlights something that storytellers have always known – that people crave meaningful human connection. This is intensifying as we encounter a world awash with data and distraction. Professional communications teams may now package storytelling as strategy, but the craft of storytelli
  
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• How to foster a love of reading in boys | Letters

  26-12-2025 17:58 via theguardian.com
  Louis Provis says there needs to be systemic change in how schools think about boys’ reading. Jacqueline Robson recalls a reading initiative that left students searching for moreLee Child is right that too many children are being put off reading by how literature is taught (Thrillers should be on the UK school curriculum to boost reading, 19 December). Anything that helps young people develop a reading habit is welcome. But framing the solution as thrillers versus so-called “masterpi
  
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• How are you? A brief question with an abundance of answers | Letters

  26-12-2025 17:58 via theguardian.com
  Readers share a range of responses to one of the commonest greetings in the English languageMy late father-in-law, who lived to be 104 and was a veteran of the Dunkirk evacuation and the north Africa war, would inevitably respond to the question “How are you?” (Letters, 23 December) with an enigmatic “Surviving. That’s the name of the game.” The dialogue is now used regularly by members of the family in fond memory of his fortitude.
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• Man, 20, dies and teens seriously injured in horror Boxing Day pile-up

  26-12-2025 17:50 via express.co.uk
  The three-vehicle collision took place just before 12.40am on Boxing Day.
  
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• Mum gets £455 Christmas food shop for just £14 in Tesco, but people are divided

  26-12-2025 17:48 via express.co.uk
  The mum shared her incredible savings on social media, but not everyone was impressed.
  
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• D-Day hero says defeating Nazis in WW2 was a 'waste of time' as UK has 'gone downhill'

  26-12-2025 17:28 via express.co.uk
  The veteran says the country is gone to "rack and ruin" under recent governments which no longer lead.
  
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• The perfect morning routine: how to build a happy, healthy start to the day – from showers to sunshine

  26-12-2025 17:00 via theguardian.com
  You don’t have to wake at 5am or commit to hardcore exercise. But by working out a handful of habits that suit you, and introducing them slowly, you can change your life• Sign up here to get the whole series straight to your inboxThe first thing to say about the ideal morning routine is that it probably doesn’t exist. Yes, endless influencers promise that they have tweaked, tested and fine-tuned the process of revving up for the day, but how history’s most productive peopl
  
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• British Museum under woke attack as Union Flag-themed party slammed as 'far-Right'

  26-12-2025 16:44 via express.co.uk
  Staff has suggested that the theme is in "poor taste" given the hoisting of flags across the UK this year.
  
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• Christmas Day shooting leaves man, 20, fighting for life as police arrest four

  26-12-2025 16:15 via express.co.uk
  The 20-year-old man was rushed to hospital after being reportedly shot in the chest.
  
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• Soul-baring ballads, alt-rock fury and neon-lit techno: five-star albums you may have missed this year

  26-12-2025 15:00 via theguardian.com
  Valentina Magaletti drummed for her life, Sarz got hips swinging and Daniel Avery got slinky and serpentine: our writers pick their favourite unsung LPs from 2025
  • The 50 best albums of 2025
  • More on the best culture of 2025Towards the end of Tether, there is a song called Silk and Velvet; its sound is characteristic of Annahstasia’s debut album. Fingerpicked acoustic guitar and her extraordinary vocals – husky, expressive, elegant – are front and centre. The arrang
  
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• ‘Loyalty over all’: Trump was once known for constantly switching out his staff. Not any more

  26-12-2025 14:00 via theguardian.com
  The president’s professed satisfaction with his cabinet may reflect how hard it would be to get a replacement confirmedFor more than a decade he built his brand on two words: “You’re fired!” And in his first term in the White House, Donald Trump did not hesitate to show his staff the door, often via an abrasive tweet.But since resuming the US presidency in January, Trump, the former host of the reality TV show The Apprentice, appears to have become an uncharacteristically
  
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• Cocktail of the week: Ambassadors Clubhouse’s Patiala peg – recipe | The good mixer

  26-12-2025 14:00 via theguardian.com
  An old fashioned with a batty backstoryLegend has it that in 1920 Bhupinder Singh, the maharaja of Patiala, was determined that his cricket team would triumph over a visiting English team. To gain the upper hand, he hosted a grand party the night before the match at which he served his guests Patiala pegs, famously generous four-finger whisky pours traditionally measured from pinky to index finger. Unsurprisingly, the English players overindulged, leaving them very hungover and, inevitably, defe
  
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• The pioneering light boxes helping Orkney islanders avoid seasonal affective disorder

  26-12-2025 13:00 via theguardian.com
  Wintering Well boxes to counter effects of low light on mental health are ‘super popular’, says island librarian“Boxes of light” are being used to help people who struggle with low winter mood while living in one of Scotland’s darkest communities as part of a wider research initiative to support the million-plus sufferers of seasonal affective disorder across Britain.Residents of the Orkney Islands have been able to borrow a Wintering Well Box from their library sin
  
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• After Decades of Speculation, Physicists Finally Confirm the Existence of "Time Mirrors" - The Daily Galaxy

  26-12-2025 12:45 via news.google.com
  After Decades of Speculation, Physicists Finally Confirm the Existence of "Time Mirrors"  The Daily Galaxy
  
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• The joy of leftovers – what to cook in the calm after Christmas

  26-12-2025 12:00 via theguardian.com
  From cheeseboard pies to spiced-up veg and one last sweet flourish, this is how to eat, waste less and savour the lull between Christmas and New Year• Sign up here for our weekly food newsletter, FeastAt this time of year, I like to stay home, shut off from the world and do as little as possible for as long as possible. Eat all the food, embrace all the leftovers and be creative with whatever’s in the kitchen. After the big day, I like to turn leftovers into some sort of pie: they&rsq
  
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• Tess and Claudia quit! Celia farts! It’s 2025’s most jaw-dropping TV moments

  26-12-2025 12:00 via theguardian.com
  From shock Strictly news to shock flatulence, plus a roundup of the most hilarious news fails, here are the year’s wildest bits of televisionOne of the most critically acclaimed and most watched shows of the year was Jack Thorne and Stephen Graham’s staggering Adolescence. At the heart of the plot: why did an innocent-looking kid called Jamie (Owen Cooper) commit such a brutal murder? The third episode lifted the lid. As Jamie is interviewed by psychologist Briony (Erin Doherty), we
  
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• Worth every penny: The best tech purchases I made in 2025 - Android Authority

  26-12-2025 11:03 via news.google.com
  Worth every penny: The best tech purchases I made in 2025  Android AuthorityTop ten gadgets of the year – devices we can't help but desire  wallpaper.com35+ best products we tested in 2025: Expert picks for phones, TVs, AI, and more  ZDNETDrones, e-bikes and system cameras: the tech I’ll remember from 2025  stuff.tvMalcolm's best tech in 2025: iPhone Air, Powerbeats Pro 2, and a cheap UPS  AppleInsider
  
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• ‘We bonded over losing very good friends in our mid-20s’: the candid, shoegazey dream-pop of Snuggle

  26-12-2025 11:00 via theguardian.com
  Heartbreak and humour combine in the Danish duo’s appealing blend of balladry, shoegaze and miminalist popFrom Copenhagen, Denmark
  Recommended if you like Alex G, Dido, Astrid Sonne
  Up next Playing Primavera and Roskilde in summer 2026In the hands of Andrea Thuesen and Vilhelm Strange, the band name Snuggle feels more than a little ironic. The Danish duo’s debut album Goodbyehouse, released on the cultishly adored label Escho, derives from a period when the pair’s lives were in
  
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• The Dominik Diamond alternative game of the year awards 2025

  26-12-2025 11:00 via theguardian.com
  There was no shortage of fun and video games in the Diamond household in the last 12 months. Which ones did we play so much our thumbs hurt? And which one saved my soul? Let the ceremony begin …
  • The 20 best video games of 2025So, how was 2025 for your household? Was it really all as good as you pretended it was on Facebook? Full of A-grades for the kids and riotous themed fancy dress birthday parties for the grownups? Or was it a sea of disappointment with only occasional fun flots
  
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• Living on the edge: what young people in England told us about life on the coast

  26-12-2025 11:00 via theguardian.com
  As part of the Guardian’s Against the tide series, readers aged 18 to 30 share what they love about living in their coastal town, the challenges and why they often choose to leaveMegan, a 24-year-old from the Isle of Wight, is very familiar with saying goodbye. She decided university wasn’t for her and remembers how, one by one, she waved off her friends who left the island to study. Many never came back. Continue reading...
  
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• A child is born: Italians celebrate village’s first baby in 30 years

  26-12-2025 11:00 via theguardian.com
  Feted birth of bambina Lara in Pagliara dei Marsi highlights sticky national debate over country’s ‘demographic winter’In Pagliara dei Marsi, an ancient rural village on the slopes of Mount Girifalco in Italy’s Abruzzo region, cats vastly outnumber people.They weave through the narrow streets, wander in and out of homes, and stretch out on walls overlooking the mountains. Their purrs are a consistent hum in the quiet that has come with decades of population decline. Conti
  
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• Nick Cave, Jamie Lee Curtis, Rami Malek, CMAT and more! The best Guardian portraits of 2025 – in pictures

  26-12-2025 09:30 via theguardian.com
  Whether it was pop stars, athletes and Hollywood A-listers baring all or real-life heroes and fearless campaigners, Guardian photographers captured the people behind this year’s biggest stories and most revealing profiles Continue reading...
  
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• State pensioners given £921 New Year boost if they have two-digit code - Daily Express

  26-12-2025 08:01 via news.google.com
  State pensioners given £921 New Year boost if they have two-digit code  Daily ExpressView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Ultimate fantasy house hunt: dream homes for sale in Great Britain

  26-12-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  From a barn conversion with wildlife for neighbours to a recently renovated townhouse on a quaint high street Continue reading...
  
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• Meet the Twixmas jumper – the perfect knit for right now | Jess Cartner-Morley

  26-12-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  No Santas, no reindeer and zero tolerance of gingerbread men – go for a sweater that is cosy and special but not overtly ChristmassyDon’t know about you, but I find that Christmas is a bit like drinking martinis. It is really fun, and then it is a bit too much fun, and by the time I realise I’ve stepped over that line, whoops, it’s too late. I’ve overdone it, and all I want to do is lie down in a dark room.Christmas is an intense and immersi
  
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• ‘Like Kafka by way of Pedro Almodóvar’: 10 debut novels to look out for in 2026

  26-12-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  A Pulitzer finalist is among the first-time novelists, in tales of love, a surreal prison, teen murder and a tradwifeBelgrave Road
  Manish Chauhan (Faber, January)
  An affecting tale of loneliness and love in Chauhan’s home town of Leicester, Belgrave Road tells the story of Mira, newly arrived in the UK from India following an arranged marriage, and Tahliil, a Somali cleaner who becomes her lunch partner, and her escape. By day, Chauhan is a finance lawyer; his debut novel follows his short
  
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• ‘It’s all about love’: how a Swiss photographer’s intimate honeymoon pictures caused a scandal

  26-12-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  René Groebli took portraits of Charlie Chaplin and Walt Disney and pioneered new modes of photography. But it was his tender, erotic pictures taken in a Paris hotel room in the 50s that really caused a stirIn 1952, two young honeymooners checked into a small hotel in Montparnasse. An everyday story in the City of Light, perhaps. But the Swiss photographer René Groebli and his wife, Rita Dürmüller, spent their time in Paris cocooned in their room producing a series of phot
  
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• First of nine new river walks in England announced for north-west

  26-12-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Mersey Valley Way takes in Manchester and Stockport on its 13-mile route with other walks to be identified in 2026A new river walk has been announced by the government as ministers try to improve access to nature in England.The 13-mile (21km) walk will go through Greater Manchester and the north-west of England. There will be a river walk in each region of the country by the end of parliament, the government has pledged. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Emerge from misty woods above a sea of clouds’: readers’ favourite UK winter walks

  26-12-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Readers revel in winter light, wildlife spectacles and cosy pubs from Norfolk to Northumberland
  • Tell us about your favourite European beach – the best tip wins a £200 holiday voucherWho needs the Swiss Alps when you have Macclesfield Forest on your doorstep? Walking from Trentabank car park, the 506-metre peak of Shutlingsloe is the gift that keeps on giving. The panoramic views from its summit, dubbed Cheshire’s mini Matterhorn, are breathtaking at any time of year. But
  
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• Pyjama party: what to wear to lounge in front of the TV

  26-12-2025 07:00 via theguardian.com
  Sweet PJs, soft sweatpants and cosy accessories will make a sofa day feel even more indulgent Continue reading...
  
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• Helen Goh’s recipe for an espresso martini pavlova bar | The sweet spot

  26-12-2025 07:00 via theguardian.com
  A selection of meringues, boozy cherries, coffee mascarpone and whisky caramel to mix and match until Big Ben strikes and beyondYour favourite cocktail is now a DIY pavlova party! Pile crisp coffee meringues high with espresso cream, boozy cherries, a drizzle of whisky caramel and a flicker of edible gold leaf, then shake, spoon and sparkle your way into the New Year. A few tips: arrange the toppings in glass bowls or on tiered trays for a beautiful display, add labels for fun and, if it’s
  
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• ‘Bob Odenkirk called to check on me after he saw it’: Rhea Seehorn on the intensity of making hit show Pluribus

  26-12-2025 07:00 via theguardian.com
  The star has hit the big time as a total grump in her new Apple TV drama – no mean feat, given how delightful she is. She talks Lego therapy, freaking out her Better Call Saul co-star and her frustration with the Guardian crosswordRhea Seehorn has had a hell of a year. For years she had garnered a reputation as a great underappreciated talent, but that has all changed now thanks to Pluribus. A series about one of the only people on Earth not to have their minds taken over by an alien virus
  
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• ‘When no one laughs, your soul leaves your body’: have you heard the one about the Bradley Cooper film inspired by John Bishop … ?

  26-12-2025 06:00 via theguardian.com
  Is This Thing On? is Cooper’s third film as writer/director – and his third to wonder whether performing saves or destroys your love life. He and stars Will Arnett, Laura Dern and Andra Day talk gags, growth and relationship goalsLast Christmas, the audience at an open-mic night in New York welcomed to the stage a new standup. Alex Novak, he said his name was. Mildly funny, bit depressed. Mostly told jokes about getting divorced. Weirdest thing though: he looked exactly like that guy
  
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• Why Britain has a deer problem - BBC

  26-12-2025 01:05 via news.google.com
  Why Britain has a deer problem  BBC
  
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