Trump describes Europe's leaders as 'weak' and countries as 'decaying'

Thursday, December 11, 2025

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The UK is stripping Britons of their citizenship in a "racist two-tier system",  the doctors' strike could be called off as Wes Streeting makes an last-minute offer, and the bestselling author Sophie Kinsella has died at aged 55.

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1 | Revealed: UK's 'racist' system of stripping citizenship

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2 | Doctors' strike could be called off as Streeting makes last-minute offer

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3 | 'You're not welcome': The far-right agitators travelling to Calais to abuse migrants

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4 | British soldier killed in Ukraine military training exercise named and pictured

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5 | Bestselling author Sophie Kinsella dies, aged 55

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'We went private instead': Readers on NHS maternity failings

That the NHS is not fit for purpose anymore is old news, and has been like that for a decade or more. If anything, it's getting worse, as 1) home-trained nurses, doctors and surgeons go abroad for a better salary; 2) skilled nurses, doctors and surgeons from the EU don't come anymore because of Brexit; and 3) we import nurses, doctors and surgeons from anywhere else, quite a few with dubious qualifications to say the least.

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