The disgusting and unforgivable harassment from this WaPo reporter is *checks notes* leaving a polite voice mail.

UK trade deal would be a ‘priority’ for Trump’s second term, claims ex-adviser

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From earlier -- Nicholas Earl on the climate rallying cry in London today

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I think there are few journalists who know as much about the Covid Inquiry (which will rumble on for years even when it's not top of the news agenda) as Ruby does - she would be a great hire anywhere but especially at news orgs interested in quality reporting of the inquiry.

Reform UK want to make net zero a central plank of their election bid.

7 in 10 voters back net zero by 2050. Party nonetheless claims it would win a referendum scrapping green goals 'hands down.'

Story by Abby Wallace POLITICOEurope

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Latest instalment of this amazing, crackers story

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Five years after Johnson's oven ready deal ... more than a year after Sunak's pledge of 'smooth flowing trade' ...

why might Northern Ireland be whacked by yet more Brexit costs?

By Abby Wallace Jon Stone

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Joe Kinnear, footballer and manager, RIP. Imagine starting a new job and your first press conference being like this. theguardian.com/football/2008/…

'He did not let even being clean bowled by a child dampen his mood'

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The perfect headline and picture combination doesn't exi ---

Meanwhile, in the energy sector.

The lede is somewhat buried here ... but Dan Corry has a short story collection out in the autumn, based on Whitehall spad-life

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Finally finished this. Strangely affecting.

Made me think of the Leonard Cohen lyric -- 'Dance me through the panic til I'm gathered safely in'

Nothing prepared me for the last line

The Westminster spear-phishing story by Dan Bloom & Aggie Chambre is simply staggering

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