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PRIZE CHUMPS
How the Royal Television Society got spooked into dropping a planned special award for journalists covering the conflict in Gaza.

HEEBIE-GB
With his online-only show edited to remove explicitly antisemitic material, loony presenter Neil Oliver seems to have gone too far even for GB News.

TOXIC WASTE
Political blog Guido Fawkes has set up a self-styled "UK DOGE" to challenge government spending, fronted by a 32-year-old ennobled by Boris Johnson.

GNOME CINEMA
Q Brick reviews black comedy Mickey 17, a "borderline fiasco" from Oscar-winning Parasite director Boon Jong-ho.

WORLD OF SPORT
Desperate to increase rugby union's dire finances, European executives are allowing the Chinese state to indirectly subsidise the game.

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