In the 20 years between The Lives of Others being in cinemas and the new stage adaptation, its story of state surveillance and control in East Germany has become uncomfortably resonant for the West, says Will Adie.

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People diagnosed with ADHD and those travelling with them can get a third off their train tickets with disabled railcards, it has emerged.

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Why do the ruling classes in China appear so paranoid, asks John MacNab. Surveillance is everywhere, yet Communist Party officials seem to live in a permanent state of paranoia and oversensitivity to perceived slights.

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Council libraries have distributed pro-migrant bookmarks that praise the work ethic of refugees and say they aim to help people "embrace new cultures" as the area will "naturally become more diverse".

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Social media users may be required to have photo ID to prove their age when Labour's ban for under-16s comes into force in spring as current facial age checks are inadequate, Ofcom has said.

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No wonder our schools incubate antisemitism, says Joe Baron: our institutions have been captured and our culture infected from top to bottom by a new Israelophobic strain of the oldest prejudice in the world.

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Net Zero costs have continued to climb in Labour's Budget, with tens of billions in subsidies being poured into renewables and other green boondoggles. We simply can't afford it, says Paul Homewood.

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A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the 'climate emergency', public health 'crises' and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.

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With apparently nothing better to do this summer, the police charged Guy Carpenter with picking up roadkill – who even knew it was a crime? As they took him to court, that's when he knew English freedom had died.

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Labour Chancellor John Healey has hit struggling workers, savers and landlords as he drives the tax burden to a new record high to fund energy bailouts and a mushrooming welfare bill in his Budget today.

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At the heart of the mass immigration debate is the question: can English culture survive without ancestral continuity of the population? Clive Pinder says ancestry is important, but ultimately England is not a DNA test.

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The economy may be going to hell in a handcart, but at least John Healey has cut 6p from the daily supermarket bill. That will make all the difference to beleaguered households, says Alexander McKibbin.

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David Lloyd health clubs have provoked anger after banning men from attending spa sessions during peak evening hours because some women said they felt uncomfortable for "religious reasons".

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Benjamin Netanyahu has defied opinion polls to emerge as the leader of the largest party following Israel's general election but has fallen short of a majority, projections indicate.

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Why is the Editor-in-Chief of the BMJ calling for the phase-out of fossil fuels and cuts in defence spending? When did this once prestigious medical journal become a Left-wing propaganda rag, asks Paul Homewood.

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A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the 'climate emergency', public health 'crises' and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.

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The riots in France have shown up the Leftist claim that enough public spending and 'integration' will produce a happy, peaceful society as a dangerous fiction. But is anyone paying attention, asks Matt Roberts.

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Farmers say they are turning prime agricultural land over to solar panels to survive Labour's tax onslaught because the Net Zero installations pay 10 times as much as food production, which is now often loss-making.

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Improving polls for Labour are bound to lead to feverish speculation about a snap election. But if Burnham is tempted, what just happened in British Columbia might change his mind, says Mark Littlewood.

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BBC publicity staff refused to promote an Emmy-winning documentary about the victims of the October 7th massacre in Israel, claiming to be "too busy" and saying the programme was "too political".

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