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RACING UNCERTAINTY
TV horse racing presenter Matt Chapman is on the Individual Insolvency Register, his firm having gone into voluntary liquidation.

WORTHLESS ORIGINALS
Another extremist has appeared on "GB News Originals", the broadcaster's online spin-off taking its most tin-foil hat output beyond the reach of Ofcom.

GULF OF OPINION
Why did Tommy Robinson suddenly start posting long, jargon-heavy messages on X about the Sudanese and Yemeni civil wars?

SHOOTING PRACTICE
Football fans not keen on being in the US for this summer's World Cup are instead heading to co-host Mexico – but that option is also fraught with risk.

BUM NOTES
Dumbing-down at Desert Island Discs, as Radio 4 played the Pie Jesu from Andrew Lloyd Webber's Requiem instead of the Fauré the guest had chosen.

ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA
The government says its consultation on banning social media for under-16s, would be "evidence-led", but that depends on which evidence it looks at.

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