The Guardian Articles

A group of 30 Labour and Green MPs have written to Ofwat to demand that Thames Water is taken into special measures.

In an open letter to David Black, the chief executive of the regulator, the MPs expressed fears of an expensive public bailout and demanded that Thames Water be …

The head of the Office for National Statistics has been summoned for a grilling by MPs next week amid concerns the UK’s faulty economic data has become

“virtually unusable”

The cross-party Treasury select committee has asked Prof Sir Ian Diamond to appear before it, after the ONS …

Padel is widely considered the

fastest growing sport in the world

The upmarket Winchester Racquets and Fitness club has informed its members it expects to be served with a noise abatement notice after complaints from …

As Donald Trump

threatens to slap steep tariffs

Deferred contracts were once baseball’s annual joke played on the New York Mets.

They released veteran third baseman Bobby Bonilla after a dismal season in 1999. But rather than pay the $5.9m left on his contract as a lump sum, the club offered a 25-year deferred deal at a munificent …

Watching televised sports in 2025 can feel a little like sitting through one long gambling commercial, interspersed by occasional flashes of actual games. Those sports, meanwhile, are played in venues and uniforms plastered with the logos of yet more betting houses, airing on broadcasts that sprinkle in mentions of gambling …

Police forces in England and Wales are facing “difficult and challenging” circumstances, the policing minister has accepted, as some have been forced to cut their number of officers.

Diana Johnson said forces would need to make decisions locally on how many officers to have, days after Essex police said they …

UK health bosses privately admitted that a lack of border inspections in the wake of Brexit had left British consumers exposed to diseased meat, an investigation has found.

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism has previously uncovered a host of

failings in the government’s handling

House prices rose for a fifth consecutive month in January, but the annual rate of growth slowed as the UK property market showed signs of “softening”, according to Nationwide.

The building society’s monthly tracker found that prices in January rose 0.1% on the previous month, with the cost of an …

What if Ofcom had cut Royal Mail some slack half a decade ago? What if the universal service obligation (USO), the requirement on the postal operator to deliver nationwide six days a week at a uniform price, had been tweaked before letter volumes fully fell off the cliff?

Would Royal …