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Wednesday briefing: The new, devastating flood risk facing nearly all of Britain

In today’s newsletter: Flooding across Britain is predicted to become so bad that some towns may need to be abandoned, and it’s not even campaigners raising the alarm – but insurers

The Guardian - UK

The crisis engulfing Emmanuel Macron contains a warning for Keir Starmer

The French president dominated the centre ground but has failed to build a legacy there. Labour is in danger of doing the same, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

The Guardian - UK

Home secretary: Britain has lost control of its borders

Shabana Mahmood to insist Britain can only stem flow of migrants through international cooperation

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Reeves to touch down in Washington after IMF warns of rising UK inflation

The Chancellor is to champion Britain as a place where investors and businesses can count on economic stability during meetings in Washington DC.

Evening Standard

The Guardian view on the IMF’s warning: Britain’s economy runs hot for profits, cold for pay

Editorial: Labour is misreading the economics – leaving it unable to deal with the G7’s worst inflation and flat living standard

The Guardian - UK

UK faces highest inflation in G7 this year and next, IMF warns

According to fund’s World Economic Outlook, Britain is on course to average 3.4% this year and 2.5% in 2026

The Guardian - UK

How the high-rise tower block came to symbolise the contradictions of modern Britain

Between 2007 and 2010 Southwark council licensed 76 films to be shot on the high-rise Heygate estate in London’s Walworth area, providing a gritty backdrop for dramas of poverty and crime. This “theatre of stigma”, a term coined by historian of modern Britain Holly Smith, had come to dominate the…

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The medieval folklore of Britain’s endangered wildlife ‘omens’ – from hedgehogs to nightjars

As the seasons turn and the nights draw in, the countryside of the British Isles seems alive with omens: an owl’s screech, or a bat above the hedgerows.

The Conversation

Dinosaur footprints from 166 million years ago discovered in UK quarry

Discovery of almost 100 sauropod footprints over a distance of 220 metres provides new insight into how Jurassic dinosaurs moved through the landscape of what is now Britain

The Independent UK

‘For the sake of peace’: why a Palestinian forgives the Israeli soldier who shot him

Exclusive: Munib al-Masri Jr is part of a campaign asking the UK to help create a ‘just future’ in Palestine – starting with an apology for its role in the crisis

The Guardian - UK

Who Is Vicente Modahl? The Man Behind Team GB's Golds Now Accused of 19 Child Sex Offences and Rape

Former Team GB coach Vicente Modahl, husband of Olympic star Diane Modahl, faces 19 child sex offence charges spanning 12 years. Here's what we know about the man once behind Britain's Olympic glory.

International Business Times UK

Soaring bills are the gift that keeps on giving for Reform. Shame Labour doesn’t have the guts to do anything about them

A cost of living crisis is not inevitable if there is the will to stop companies extracting profits from Britain’s essential services, says Mathew Lawrence of the Common Wealth thinktank

The Guardian - UK

Why Britain’s climate and defence strategies need to be better integrated

Letter: Lt Gen (retd) Richard Nugee highlights the vital link between climate resilience and national security

The Guardian - UK

How the spy trial row has exposed Britain’s China problem

NEWS ANALYSIS: Political editor David Maddox explains why successive UK governments have dithered over deciding whether Beijing is a friend or foe

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I’m glad we can now talk about Brexit damage, says Wes Streeting

The prime minister is gearing up to blame Nigel Farage and Brexit for Britain’s expected downturn in productivity at the November Budget

Evening Standard

Britain’s tallest Tory opens up for first time about being bullied and his ‘heroine’ Kemi Badenoch

James McAlpine, 22, who stands at 7ft 2in, became an unlikely star of last week’s Conservative Party Conference

The Independent UK

Why Donald Trump keeps rescuing Keir Starmer from international humiliation

NEWS ANALYSIS: With Keir Starmer facing scorn from both Israel and the US ambassador in Tel Aviv over the UK’s role in the Middle East peace process, the US president has once again come to his aid. Political editor David Maddox explains why

Evening Standard

Nigel Farage blames Keir Starmer as Reform UK council leader, 19, ‘attacked in the street’

George Finch, 19, claims a suspect branded him ‘racist and fascist’ and assaulted him while he was out with a female friend

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Where the Ugliest Face Wins: Inside Britain's Bizarre but Beloved World Gurning Championships

At Britain's World Gurning Championships in Egremont, Cumbria, contestants compete to pull the ugliest faces through a horse collar . This year's winners prove that sometimes, imperfection really is something to celebrate.

The Guardian - UK

‘A palette unlike anything in the west’: Ben Okri, Yinka Shonibare and more on how Nigerian art revived Britain’s cultural landscape

To mark a new exhibition at Tate Modern, author Ben Okri and other leading British-Nigerian cultural figures trace the impact of their heritage on their work, and consider its growing influence on the world stage

The Guardian - UK

Most of Great Britain’s major rail operators are back in public hands – is it working?

Explore the Guardian’s tracker to see which operators are nationalised and if services are improving under public ownership

The Guardian - UK

Energy firms complete UK’s first ‘hydrogen blending’ trial to power grid

A 2% blend of low-carbon gas injected into gas grid to fuel Brigg power station in North Lincolnshire is a UK first

The Guardian - UK

Looking for signs of life in centre-right politics in Britain

Letters: Responding to articles about the Conservative party conference, David Redshaw suspects there may be life in Thatcherism yet. Plus letters from Des Senior, William Wallace, Les Bright, Katy Jennison and Peter Brooker

The Independent UK

Growing questions over collapsed China spy trial as ex-MI6 chief ‘confused’ by abandoned prosecution

The failure of the case has raised questions about Britain’s willingness to confront China as the government looks to build closer ties with the country

The Guardian - UK

Move over, Alan Turing: meet the working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn’t see in the movies

The Oxbridge-educated boffin is feted as the codebreaking genius who helped Britain win the war. But should a little-known Post Office engineer named Tommy Flowers be seen as the real father of computing?

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