‘Don’t lie to me to get free stuff’: how small businesses are fighting back against influencers

From diva-like behaviour to freebie requests that never result in a review, ‘entitled’ content creators are a growing blight on small-business owners. Now entrepreneurs are calling them outNicole Flanagin remembers exactly the...

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‘It’s an architect’s dream’: five beautiful eco buildings around the world

From a bamboo gym in Bali to a house made from earth in Wiltshire, these projects show the beauty in sustainable designWith construction accounting for more than a third of global emissions, sustainable architecture is central...

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369 best Christmas gifts for 2026 – tried, tested and loved by the Filter UK

We’ve unboxed, nibbled and played with hundreds of gifts to find the perfect present for everyone – from cheery stocking fillers and feelgood treats to Jude Bellingham’s favourite gameFilled with dread about Christmas shopping?...

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It’s absurd that ‘Black English’ is not on the census. We should be free to claim that identity if we choose | Calum Jacobs

The arguments have been endless and they are fatuous. Wales and Scotland stopped conflating national identity with race: why can’t England?In 2021, the then shadow justice secretary, David Lammy, asserted his Englishness on the...

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Two courtrooms, one celebrity: how did the Russell Brand case compare with the rape trial next door?

One was a high-profile defendant watched by more than 100 journalists. Another was an unknown man who preyed on a girl almost half his age. Their stories played out minutes apart, one entirely out of the spotlightWhat is going...

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Don’t just blame the culture for keeping powerful men’s dirty secrets. Blame the law too | Gaby Hinsliff

It is important to understand just how effectively perpetrators of abuse have used lawyers as their shields. A challenge to that can’t come soon enoughThere will be empty shelves in many bedrooms this weekend, where the David...

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