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Mark Steel Farage eating chocolates at the Ritz feels really anti-establishment

Up until recently, to be anti-establishment you had to be in some way at least in part opposed to the establishment. But now that stuffy rule has been destroyed. This Christmas, the Queen will start her speech, 'This year, I for one have had just about enough of the establishment. Your la-di-da types can say what they like, and I can moan about immigrants whenever I fancy coz I’m a simple gal living in south London and I know what’s what'

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World news in pictures

World news in pictures

  • 1/29 24 November 2016

    Tokyo residents woke up Thursday to the first November snowfall in more than 50 years

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    Supporters of same-sex marriage attend a rally at the Legislative Yuan in Taipei, Taiwan

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  • 3/29 24 November 2016

    People protest against a proposal to legalize same-sex marriage at the Legislative Yuan in Taipei, Taiwan

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  • 4/29 24 November 2016

    At least 40 people were killed when part of a power station under construction in China

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  • 5/29 24 November 2016

    Workers search through the remains of a collapsed platform in a cooling tower at a power station at Fengcheng, in China's Jiangxi province

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  • 6/29 24 November 2016

    Fairground stallhorders block the access to the Place de la Concorde in support of Gerard Campion, whom is required from the state to remove his ferris wheel

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    Members of the Communist Party of India shout slogans outside a bank during a protest against Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the withdrawal of high-value banknotes from circulation, in Chennai

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  • 8/29 24 November 2016

    Indian police detain a member of the Communist Party of India outside a bank during a protest against Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the withdrawal of high-value banknotes from circulation

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  • 9/29 24 November 2016

    India's rupee headed towards a record low against the dollar, weakened by the government's shock currency shake-up and a greenback surge on expectations of a rate hike next month

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    Indian police tug at a member of the Communist Party of India during a protest against Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the withdrawal of high-value banknotes from circulation, in Chennai

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    An Indonesian prison guard removes handcuffs from Australian Sara Connor, before her trial in Bali, Indonesia. Connor and British man David Taylor were put on trial on accusation of murdering an Indonesian police officer in August

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    Backed-up traffic is seen outside the Tom Bradley International Terminal during the Thanksgiving holiday season, at Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California

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    Thanksgiving holiday travelers queue inside Tom Bradley International Terminal at Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California

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    Kuwaitis attend an election campaign meeting for the upcoming parliamentary election, in Kuwait City. A total of 287 candidates, including 14 women, have registered to stand for election to the 50-seat parliament

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    New People's Army new regional rebel commander and spokesman Jaime Padilla, who uses the nom de guerre Comrade Diego, answers questions from reporters during a clandestine news conference in their encampment tucked in the harsh wilderness of the Sierra Madre mountains southeast of Manila, Philippines. Communist guerrillas warn that a peace deal with President Rodrigo Duterte's government is unlikely if he won't end the Philippines' treaty alliance with the United States and resist control by other countries

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    Communist guerrillas warn that a peace deal with President Rodrigo Duterte's government is unlikely if he won't end the Philippines' treaty alliance with the United States and resist control by other countries

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    Japan's Meteorological Agency official Koji Nakamura gives a briefing following a 6.9-magnitude earthquake that hit the country's northeast, in Tokyo

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    People fleeing from Islamic State militants in Tahrir neighborhood, are seen in Mosul, Iraq

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    Displaced people fleeing from Islamic State militants in Tahrir neighborhood, walk in Mosul, Iraq

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    Firemen try to extinguish a fire at a plastic factory in Istanbul, Turkey

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    A policeman closes the gate from inside as people try to enter a bank in Ahmedabad, India

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    View of the Ajuankota water reservoir that supplies La Paz, at 1% of its capacity, in La Paz. Bolivia's government declared an emergency on Monday as the country suffers its worst drought in 25 years. The drought started two weeks ago and has caused shortages in seven of the country's 10 biggest cities

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    Displaced Iraqi boys ask for food supplies at a food distribution point in Khazer camp, Iraq

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    An Indian relative assists an injured train passenger at a hospital in Kanpur. Rescuers ended their search for survivors amongst the twisted remains of a derailed train as the death toll from one of India's worst rail disasters rose to 146

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    Iraqis, who were separated by the ongoing fighting, cry and hug their relatives as they meet after a long time, at the Khazir refugee camp near the Kurdish checkpoint of Aski Kalak

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    Activists of some far-right Ukrainian parties loot a branch of Russian Sberbank in the centre of Kiev after a rally marking the third anniversary of the Euromaidan protests

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    Forces loyal to Libya's Government of National Accord (GNA) hold a position amid the rubble of destroyed buildings in Sirte's Al-Giza Al-Bahriya district

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    Members of the General Security Unit of the National Palace (USGPN) try to disperse supporters of Fanmi Lavalas political party as they march next to the National Palace of Port-au-Prince, Haiti

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    An American flag hangs upside down in an encampment during a protest against plans to pass the Dakota Access pipeline near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, near Cannon Ball, North Dakota, US

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Kinsella giving back to football after a life of drugs and jail

Once of Liverpool Schoolboys, then of Tranmere Rovers, before finding himself in HM Prison Rye Hill, Michael Kinsella is now trying to stop others throwing away a career like he did his own

Murray 'too young' for knighthood and won't attend SPOTY awards

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Kevin Maxwell Sorry Louise Mensch, you don't get to decide how the law works

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Revealed: the two first homes to make the House of the Year shortlist

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Tesco bans microbeads from all products

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Petition urges Parliament to recall 'most extreme spying powers ever'

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