Paper Cuts Huw Edwards latest: Disgraced BBC star avoids jail – Starmer backlash over Meloni meeting – The wild world of boozy advent calendars
We read the papers so you don’t have to. Today: Disgraced ex-Beeb presenter Huw Edwards avoids jail. The papers react to his sentencing. When in Rome. The Guardian isn’t happy with Keir Starmer’s chummy meet up with Italy’s right-wing PM. And a partridge in a pear tree The Telegraph explores pricey advent calendars full of luxury goods and booze.
Alex von Tunzelmann is joined by the journalist Natasha Devon and the host of The Way They Were Gráinne Maguire.
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