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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