- “Plane crashes with 72 on board on Christmas Day in Kazakhstan” – Footage of the crash in Kazakhstan shows the plane bursting into flames as it hit the ground and thick black smoke then rising, reports the Mail.
- “Officials report 29 survivors and 38 killed as plane crashes in Kazakhstan” – Aircraft carrying 62 passengers and five crew was en route from Baku to Grozny in Chechnya, according to the Guardian.
- “Did Russians shoot down jet that crashed and killed 38?” – The flight from Azerbajian’s capital Baku to the Russian city of Grozny crashed with 67 passengers and five crew members on board near Aktau, western Kazakhstan, this morning. Was it shot down by the Russians? asks the Mail.
- “Whitehall ‘braced for private schools collapse’ due to fee rises” – Contingency plans are being drawn up in Whitehall for an influx in demand for state school places amid fears private schools will go bankrupt and close because of fee increases, according to the Times.
- “Bear Grylls under fire for branding Mary a ‘Palestinian refugee’ in Christmas message” – The British adventurer posted a Christmas message that has led to several critics hitting out at Grylls including the Campaign Against Antisemitism, says the Telegraph.
- “Red Wall MPs tell Starmer to get tough on immigration or we will lose our seats to Reform” – A Labour pressure group has urged the Prime Minister to be more vocal about border control, as well as tackling anti-social behaviour and GP access, if Labour is to have a hope of hanging on to seats in the red wall at the next election, according to the Telegraph;.
- “Police log parking and Snapchat rows as hate incidents” – Schoolgirls falling out on social media and an offensive dog name are among more than 14,000 non-crime hate incidents dealt with by U.K. forces in the past year, reports Ben Ellery in the Times.
- “Luigi Mangione and America’s broken moral compass” – Supporters of the alleged murderer of health-care CEO Brian Thompson applauded his choice of target, even though he was innocent. What has gone wrong with America? asks Heather Mac Donald in City Journal.
- “Progressives lost their minds in 2024 – and alienated people with their nastiness and extremism” – Activists, whether campaigning for Palestine, Just Stop Oil or trans rights, did ittle to endear themselves to Britain’s tolerant citizens, writes George Chesterton in the Telegraph.
- “Amazon Prime slammed for removing main scene of It’s A Wonderful Life” – It’s a Wonderful Life fans have expressed outrage that Amazon Prime cut the scene in which the angel shows him what life would be like in Potterville if he had never existed, says the Mail.
- “It’s not such a wonderful life in Rachel Reeves’s Britain” – Had Labour lost the election, the U.K. would still face difficulties – but it wouldn’t be this bad, says Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “Martin Gurri: Cuba Enters the Dark Ages” – It isn’t just the power grid that’s failing. The entire infrastructure of the country—its entire Communist system—is crumbling to dust.
- “Merry Christmas, Bond fans” – The official James Bond X account has created a compilation of Christmas moments from Bond films.
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