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2. Paris Olympics emerges from darkness with unique opening ceremony

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   After the mayhem, the majesty. Paris conjured a truly indelible spectacle to launch the Games of the 33rd Olympiad, with a blazing hot-air balloon soaring high into the night sky offering a breathtaking showcase for the City of Lights. The four-hour opening ceremony was unlike any conceived in the 128 years of the modern Olympics, transplanting the host nation’s story from a stadium setting to a dozen complex tableaux on water, all while ferrying 6,800 athletes in a 3½-mile flotilla of 85 barges. Even Emmanuel Macron conceded the idea was “crazy”. The fact that it somehow succeeded was little short of miraculous.

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10. Starmer accused of U-turning on pledge to scrap his own pension tax perk

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    Sir Keir Starmer has been accused by the Tories of performing a U-turn on a pledge to scrap a “special tax perk” he enjoyed on his pension.

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