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Trump vows to help free jailed Hong Kong publisher Jimmy Lai
The Globe and Mail
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August 15, 2025
Open this photo in gallery:A man in Hong Kong in June calls for the liberation of jailed publisher Jimmy Lai. Mr. Lai has spent four years and eight months in solitary confinement at a maximum-security prison.TOMMY WANG/AFP/Getty Images U.S....
Scotland's top sandwich filling named by Aldi as school meals increase by 20%
Daily Record & Sunday Mail
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August 14, 2025
Families across Scotland will be gearing up for the kids going back to school. With some council areas going back this week, it's time to get all the essentials sorted. With some little ones favouring a packed lunch over something on the school...
Friday briefing: How Palestine Action arrests expose a new authoritarian edge to UK police
The Guardian
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August 15, 2025
Good morning. An award-winning poet, a decorated army officer, and a retired head teacher are handcuffed together in the back of a police van ... It’s not the start of a terrible joke, but a representation of just some of the eyebrow-raising...
Victoria fight legend Stan Peterec is stepping back into the ring, and into the record books
CHEK
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August 15, 2025
Most people at 66 are thinking about retirement. Stan Peterec is thinking about combinations, the punching and kicking kind. The Victoria martial arts legend and former two-time world champion — is lacing up for another professional fight at...
The Unity Books bestseller chart for the week ending August 15
The Spinoff
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August 15, 2025
The top 10 sales lists recorded every week at Unity Books’ stores in High St, Auckland, and Willis St, Wellington. AUCKLAND 1 The Unlikely Doctor by Dr Timoti Te Moke (Allen & Unwin, $38) Dr Te Moke became a doctor at the age of 56. An...
MAGA made America great again. Could MEGA do the same for Britain?
The European Magazine
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August 14, 2025
With Labour support plummeting and the right fragmented, Britain could be primed for its own “Make America Great Again” moment. Guest writer Daniel Mark Harrison argues that a bold, unifying movement — led by a charismatic figure with economic...
The National Library of Scotland is a national embarrassment
The Critic
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August 15, 2025
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results — so goes the quote falsely attributed to Albert Einstein. To this end, one can only imagine what the board of the National Library of Scotland were...
Publisher traffic sources: Google steady but social and direct referrals are down
Press Gazette
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August 14, 2025
New data from Chartbeat suggests that “search” as a source of total traffic to major news publishers has remained stable over the last year. This appears to chime with a Google statement earlier this month downplaying the impact of AI Overviews...
UK, Own Your Success – Support Entrepreneurs
Forbes
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Children listen to speakers during the KidPreneur Festival, the UK's first entrepreneur event for kids. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Saturday November 11, 2017. Photo credit should read: Daniel Hambury/PA Wire (Photo by Daniel Hambury/PA...
Historian warns Britain is 'losing sight of its Christian past' despite mocking believers for worshipping ‘dead people’
GB News
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August 15, 2025
An atheist historian who once mocked believers for worshipping "dead people" has warned the UK risks losing sight of its Christian history. Academic Professor Alice Roberts told BBC History Magazine that Christianity forms a "compelling and...
SLIPKNOT Reportedly Nearing $120 Million Deal For Music Royalties And Publishing
Blabbermouth - California
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August 14, 2025
According to Billboard, SLIPKNOT is close to completing a deal to sell its music catalog for approximately $120 million. The deal between members of the long-running metal band and HarbourView Equity Partners includes the rights to SLIPKNOT's...
Plug Power, Pure Hydrogen, RENK – The order books are filling up
The Market Herald
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August 14, 2025
Join our daily newsletter At The Bell to receive exclusive market insights The stock markets are celebrating as if there were no tomorrow. But caution is advised! The ambitious valuations of many companies are likely to result in a sharp...
Georgie, the UK schmoozer-in-chief
The Times
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When word got out that JD Vance was to stay in the Cotswolds this summer, there was a rush across Westminster to secure face-time. The vice-president is a known anglophile with a deep, granular interest in British politics. He’s also the most...
Great British Bake Off 2025: everything you need to know
Yours
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It's official, the UK's best baking show is returning to our screens this autumn! If you love The Great British Bake Off as much as we do here at Yours, we've put together everything you need to know about the latest GBBO news, including who the...
10 Hugo Award Nominated Fantasy Books You Need To Read
The Mary Sue
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August 14, 2025
Wow, whoever this guy Hugo is, he sure knows how to pick ’em! Since the beginning of the 20th century, Hugo’s been giving out awards to some of the finest fantasy and sci fi novels ever written. The award has historically been dominated by science...
Publishers Whose Diamond Liquidation Objections Are Not Being Heard
Bleeding Cool - Illinois
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August 13, 2025
Posted in: Comics | Tagged: Ad Hoc Committee, diamond Comic book publishers whose objections are being stricken from the record in the matter of Diamond Comic Distributors' liquidation of consignment stock. Published Wed, 13 Aug 2025 15:57:03...
Twisty new crime drama branded "every parent's worst nightmare" lands UK release date
Digital Spy
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August 14, 2025
Sarah Snook's terrifying new thriller series finally has a UK release date All Her Fault - also starring Dakota Fanning, Jake Lacy and Michael Peña - will follow "every parent's worst nightmare" when their child goes missing without a trace. After...
How Nicola Sturgeon failed Scotland
Unherd
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August 14, 2025
In the 2010s it was commonplace to hear that such-and-such a prominent woman had “imposter syndrome” — meaning she went through life irrationally feeling as if she was about to be unmasked as a fraud. It seems that the disease goes all the way up...
British & Irish Lions rugby test match at MCG delivers busiest Melbourne hotel night on record
Australian Leisure
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An estimated 40,000 British & Irish Lions rugby fans visited Melbourne to watch the two games against Australia's National Rugby Union Team, the Wallabies with more than 90,000 fans turning out at the MCG on 26th July. Melbourne was the only city...
Tom Hiddleston's forgotten "tepid" biopic gets new UK streaming home
Digital Spy
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August 14, 2025
Tom Hiddleston's biopic on country musician Hank Williams has found a new streaming home in the UK. I Saw the Light sees the British star playing American as the beloved country pioneer behind songs like the gospel hit that gives the movie its...