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Traditional affinity between Conservatives and the newspaper has given way to a complex, splintered drama, and the attempted acquisition by Gulf-backed RedBird IMI lies in limbo

Foreign governments should not own British newspapers. Our Government seems to be listening

Along with its sister newspapers the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Spectator faces being controlled by a fund majority-owned in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

In what has been described as a miracle, a baby in Clarksville, Tennessee, was found unharmed in a tree after a deadly tornado ripped through his home, tearing off the roof and sweeping him up out of his crib, ABC News reports. Although his home was completely destroyed, four-month-old Lord Moore suffered only a cut to his face in the tornado, which killed three people and injured dozens of others as it stormed through Clarksville on Dec. 9.

I don’t know what the Cop28 summit in Dubai achieved for the environment, but it was a gift to satirists. As if the base irony of world leaders flying in, expending countless gallons of jet fuel to grandstand about climate change wasn’t delicious enough, the chief coordinator of the charade turned out to be the head of one of the world’s biggest oil fields, Sultan Al Jaber.

Former Telegraph editor Charles Moore revealed that Lady Penn, who died aged 97 last month, had warm words for Foy, who portrayed the Queen in the first two series of The Crown.

The rector of St Bride’s, the journalists’ church, has emphasised the “need for media freedom” amid an attempt by Abu Dhabi to take control of The Telegraph.

Call for national security law to be used to investigate proposed deal involving consortium backed by UAE

Lord William Hague said that if he were culture secretary, he would intervene in the deal to buy the titles as Secretary of State Lucy Frazer has said she is minded to do

The UAE will have its moment of glory while the UK press worries more about petrostate money buying the Telegraph, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde