32 minutes ago About sharing The Met Office has reported snow in Aviemore on Christmas Day A white Christmas has been officially confirmed by the Met Office following snowfall in the Highlands. A mixture of rain and snow was reported in Tulloch Bridge and Aviemore on Monday afternoon despite mild temperatures elsewhere. There was also…
43 minutes ago About sharing Benjamin Netanyahu said the war was “not close to being over” By Raffi Berg BBC News Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel will intensify its fight against Hamas in the coming days. He told members of his party that he had visited Gaza on Monday morning and that Israel’s…
22 minutes ago About sharing Watch the King’s Christmas message in full By Sean Coughlan Royal correspondent The King’s Christmas message has emphasised the importance of “universal” values shared between major religions, at a time of “increasingly tragic conflict around the world”. Against a backdrop of conflicts in Israel, Gaza and Ukraine, he pointed to…
Mr Navalny’s team had no contact with him for weeks and he failed to appear at several court hearings.
18 minutes ago About sharing Ukrainian troops hold a Christmas prayer near Kupiansk By James Waterhouse BBC Ukraine Correspondent in Kupiansk Christmas in Kupiansk is a celebration in name only. Most children have been evacuated and a fraction of its 26,000 population remains. There is a visceral tension which comes with living close to the…
World / December 25, 2023 Will This Be the Last Christmas for Gaza’s Christian Communities? Gaza has some of the world’s oldest Christian communities, yet Palestinian Christians say Israeli strikes put them “under threat of extinction.” John Nichols Ad Policy The Nativity scene shows baby Jesus wrapped in a keffiyeh and placed in a pile…
Books & the Arts / December 25, 2023 An Introduction to Marxism Unlike Any Other Søren Mau’s Mute Compulsion offers a unique and relatable entry into the social and economic dimensions of modern Marxist thought. Matt McManus Ad Policy Tomb of Karl Marx at Highgate Cemetery in London, 1954. (Photo by English Heritage / Heritage…
Culture / December 25, 2023 Whose “It’s a Wonderful Life” Is It Anyway? How everybody’s favorite Christmas movie about the perils of monopoly capitalism became a victim of monopoly capitalism. Ad Policy James Stewart, as George Bailey, points at Lionel Barrymore in a scene from It’s a Wonderful Life. (Getty Images) It was the summer…
Just now About sharing King Charles III and Queen Camilla The King and Queen are attending a Christmas Day church service in Sandringham alongside the Prince and Princess of Wales. Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis were seen arriving at St Mary Magdalene Church. Prince Andrew is also in attendance, accompanied for the first…
1 hour ago About sharing Four products linked to Mrs Kirkham’s, which produces cheese in Lancashire, have been recalled By Sean Seddon BBC News People have been urged to check their Christmas Day cheeseboards and hampers after the food safety watchdog warned about a potential E. coli risk linked to one manufacturer. The Food Standards…