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    The Guardian view on Starmer’s Mandelson gamble: his political judgment faces scrutiny in pivotal week | Editorial

    It is unlikely that events this week at the foreign affairs select committee will deliver a knockout blow to Sir Keir Starmer over his appointment of Peter Mandelson as Britain’s US ambassador. Westminster will instead see a stress test, forcing competing versions of events into the open – a risk for Downing Street if the story crystallises unfavourably….

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    Books Our Editors Loved This Week

    Gothic Fantasy Weavingshaw by Heba Al-Wasity Al-Wasity’s haunting and romantic novel follows Leena Al-Sayer, a young refugee woman who can see ghosts, and St. Silas, a mysterious and supernatural Mafioso, as they embark on a quest that takes them through the urban underworld and eventually to the crumbling Weavingshaw estate, grappling with evils both supernatural…

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