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The government is pressing ahead with a digital visa scheme to prove the residency rights of millions of people from outside the EU without having completed the necessary checks, campaigners are warning.

The Home Office said in response to a freedom of information request from the

Observer

Film

American auteurs return

A new film from one of the heavy hitters of US cinema is always cause for celebration, and with projects from Kathryn Bigelow, Noah Baumbach and Paul Thomas Anderson on the horizon, there’s plenty to whet cineaste appetites in the coming year. Details on …

The

Islamic State

Hundreds of guards employed to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda have been told their jobs are being cut, the Guardian has learned.

About 280 Home Office contractors were informed on Friday that their roles were being made redundant because Labour has ditched the previous government’s controversial scheme to send asylum …

As a business proposition, Elon Musk’s ownership of X, formerly known as Twitter, has so far been a disaster: since he acquired X in late 2022, the social media company, according to one estimate, has

lost

As a political proposition, however, Musk’s …

A year is a long time in business: enough time for things to turn sour financially, or to engineer a comeback. Here are our picks of the figures across all sectors who face a testing year with something big to prove in 2025

Daniel Křetínský, Royal Mail bidder

Daniel Křetínský, …

“We have a plan but it’s a high wire act and we have got to keep both feet on the wire,” says Archie Norman, the chair of Marks & Spencer.

M&S may have had

a blockbuster year

A British man was among 14 people killed in a

New Year’s Day vehicle attack

The Metropolitan police said they were supporting the family of Edward Pettifer, 31, of Chelsea, who was killed in the attack in Bourbon Street.

His …

If, in 2024, you rawdogged a flight, wore brat green, indulged in some looksmaxxing or called someone babygirl … you are right on trend, as all of these words and terms broke through this year.

However, if the above sentence makes no sense to you, you may still be in …

When Angela Merkel stepped out of her car into the melee outside an asylum seekers’ shelter in Spandau, Berlin in September 2015, Anas Modamani, an 18-year-old Syrian refugee, had no idea who she was when he approached her to take a selfie.

“I assumed she was someone interested in seeing …