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Published: 12 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online For a time, Julia Ducournau was hailed as the rising French queen of body horror. Her debut feature, Raw, explored the visceral territory of cannibalism as an allegory for sexual awakening, while her follow-up, Titane, delved into the dark spaces of serial killing, family estrangement, and bizarre eroticism, including a scene in which a woman engages sexually with...

Published: 12 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Buckingham Palace is set to reinstate a hyphen in the surname of Prince Andrew, formally known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, following careful review of historic precedent and official records. The change comes after the former prince’s name was altered last month in the wake of ongoing controversy surrounding his connections with the late Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex...

Published: 12 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Nigel Farage’s selection for the presidency of a newly launched Reform UK youth wing has come under scrutiny after past social media posts revealed his critical comments about the King, describing him as “anti-British.” Jack Eccles, 21, was recently announced as the head of the Students for Reform group, a campus-focused initiative aimed at promoting the party’s political...

Published: 12 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online The UK toy industry is enjoying a remarkable year, buoyed by both children and adult collectors, as the annual DreamToys list highlights the season’s most sought-after items. From singing Wicked 2 dolls to manga-themed Lego, Pokémon games and quirky mini-fridge playsets, the list demonstrates that toys are no longer just for children. Increasingly, adults—dubbed “kidults”—are playing a major...

Published: 12 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online A binman who tragically lost his life after an out-of-control refuse lorry crashed into a house in Herefordshire has been named as Andzie “Stan” Stanik. Mr Stanik, a father of three and a familiar face in the local community, was a passenger in the lorry at the time of the early morning accident in Leominster on Tuesday, around...

Published: 12 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online MPs should stop relying on ChatGPT to draft their parliamentary speeches, according to Kanishka Narayan, the minister responsible for artificial intelligence in the UK government. While Mr Narayan confirmed he uses AI tools for “core research” and background work, he emphasised that he has not used them to write speeches on his behalf. The warning comes amid growing...

Published: 12 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Rachel Reeves has rebuffed a plea from Wes Streeting for an emergency injection of £1bn into the NHS’s budget to cover the cost of mass redundancies. The chancellor’s decision is a setback for the health secretary, who had been lobbying behind the scenes in Whitehall for extra money to pay off 18,000 personnel who are losing their jobs....

Published: 12 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Every school in England is to be issued with an AI-generated target for minimum pupil attendance, the government has announced, as part of its continuing efforts to tackle absence in the country’s classrooms. Headteachers will be given the targets this month in an effort to boost attendance rates, which remain stubbornly below pre-pandemic levels. Teaching unions, however, instantly...

Published: 12 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Tech companies and child protection agencies will be given the power to test whether artificial intelligence tools can produce child abuse images under a new UK law. The announcement was made as a safety watchdog revealed that reports of AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) have more than doubled in the past year from 199 in 2024 to...

Published: 12 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Over the past two weeks, the nation’s civilian airports, military installations, and even nuclear plants have found themselves at the centre of escalating security concerns, plagued by a series of drone sightings that have sparked widespread fear and confusion. What initially appeared to be isolated incidents now seems to form part of a disturbing pattern — one that...