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The best books of 2025

New novels from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Ian McEwan, plus the return of Slow Horses and Margaret Atwood looks back … Guardian critics pick the must-read titles of 2025Guardian fiction editor Justine Jordan picks the best of the year, from Chimamanda Ngozi...

John Swinney defends immigration as Scotland faces rise of Reform

Exclusive: First minister mounts robust defence of diversity as SNP prepares campaign for Holyrood election in MayScotland needs immigration to bolster the size of its working-age population, the country’s first minister has said, mounting a forceful defence of...

‘True activism has to cost you something’: Bridgerton’s Nicola Coughlan on politics, paparazzi and parasocial fandom

The diminutive Derry Girls star isn’t afraid to speak her mind, even if it costs her fans and followersBack in 2008, when Nicola Coughlan was at drama school, a guy in her class swaggered over and, with all the brimming confidence of young men in the noughties, asked...