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Starmer to pledge cuts to NHS waiting lists and crime in major reset for Labour
Labour  
Starmer to pledge cuts to NHS waiting lists and crime in major reset for Labour
Ambitious targets to improve voters’ lives come amid plunging approval ratings for government and loss of transport secretary
Migration  
More than 600 Brazilians deported by Home Office on three secret flights
Homelessness  
‘We live on Pot Noodles’: rickets hits homeless families with no kitchen
UK  
Smooth Mars bar wins man £2 compensation – and internet fame
Environment  
Cheaper loans on table to urge UK motorists to EVs, plus cuts in fines for firms
In focus
Gisèle Pelicot is not my adversary, says defence lawyer treading a fine line in mass rape case
Gisèle Pelicot rape trial  
Gisèle Pelicot is not my adversary, says defence lawyer treading a fine line in mass rape case
Béatrice Zavarro has tried to explain, not excuse, why Dominique Pelicot invited strangers to rape his wife, while hoping the case will lead to social change in France
Analysis  
People are angry about the floods – but turning to Reform endangers us all
Belgium  
‘I cried, I cried. I had no one’: the brutal child kidnappings that shamed Belgian Congo
Spotlight
Jay Rayner on restaurants  
Desi Yew Tree, Wolverhampton: ‘Part of the brilliance of Desi pub culture’
Desi Yew Tree, Wolverhampton: ‘Part of the brilliance of Desi pub culture’
Ask Philippa  
Since starting training as a therapist, my husband thinks only of himself
Ed Davey  
A new Christmas single – but do they know it’s Ed Davey?
Opinion
We need to talk about capitalism. Why won’t Labour do it?
We need to talk about capitalism. Why won’t Labour do it?
Feeding off anger, fuelled by Russia… Enter Călin Georgescu, Europe’s latest radical populist
If AI can provide a better diagnosis than a doctor, what’s the prognosis for medics?
Sport
All played out: Guardiola’s City look broken and Liverpool can inflict knockout
All played out: Guardiola’s City look broken and Liverpool can inflict knockout
Football  
Hayes frustrated as England hold her USA on Wembley return
Australia’s rapid progress shows Schmidt is the right man
Podcast
Lebanon: a fragile ceasefire in a shattered nation – podcast
Today in Focus  
Lebanon: a fragile ceasefire in a shattered nation – podcast
After two months of total war and terrible destruction, an uneasy peace has fallen on Lebanon. Will Christou reports
Business
Money trail  
Questions over deposed Bangladeshi elite’s £400m UK property empire
Questions over deposed Bangladeshi elite’s £400m UK property empire
Analysis  
Claws are out as Jaguar heads down EV rebrand road
In pictures
Art and design  
Cold comfort: watercolours of Paris in winter
Cold comfort: watercolours of Paris in winter
Art and design  
Original Observer Photography
Original Observer Photography
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