Friday 31 October 2025			
						
		 
 Lily Allen’s new album shows the pain behind the ‘cool girl’ myth – that’s why women are obsessed with it | Gaby Hinsliff
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 ‘I’ve played a lot of sneery bastards’: Roger Allam on bad singing, big paydays and Elgar’s level of ‘gitacity’
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 ‘You don’t have to hurtle down slopes or dance like crazy at après parties’: readers’ favourite winter mountain holidays in Europe
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 Economic Watch: China s new development roadmap offers world bigger gains with wider opening up
- newzealandnews 
 What would you do if democracy was being dismantled before your eyes? Whatever you’re doing right now | Andy Beckett
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 ‘We stick two fingers up at Henry VIII’: can the riotous all-Japanese Six out-Tudor-queen the original?
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 Head of UK government’s anti-Islamophobia partner ‘refused service in shop for being Muslim’
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 ‘The nuns were convinced they were possessed by demons’: goth and metal stars select the scariest music ever made
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 UK launches search for ‘town of culture’ among places ‘written out of national story’
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 Australia’s first formal treaty with Indigenous traditional owners passed in Victoria
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 Ukraine war briefing: British ex-soldier arrested in Kyiv and accused of spying for Russia
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 Florence + the Machine: Everybody Scream review – alt-rock survivor surveys her kingdom with swagger
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 Paint me cool: scientists reveal roof coating that can reduce surface temperatures up to 6C on hot days
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 They were 30 runs short : Jemimah Rodrigues following India s historic run chase against Australia in Women s CWC semi-final
- newzealandnews 
 Keir Starmer often strident in opposition struggles to maintain probity in government
- .theguardian 
 ‘You got some pants on, officer?’: video from Detroit virtual court hearing goes viral
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 The Guardian view on deprived neighbourhoods: incomes as well as places need a boost | Editorial
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 The Guardian view on Trump and China: stepping back from the brink, but not solving problems | Editorial
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 Four feet higher and rising: Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia becomes world’s tallest church
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