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More than £50,000 of taxpayers’ money was spent on lawyers to try to prevent the release of a safeguarding review ordered after a disabled man starved to death in his own home.

The costs were part of a bill of nearly £1m spent under the last government to prevent the …

Good morning. I hope you had a restful Christmas and New Year, spent in a spirit of calm and conviviality. Kemi Badenoch, the already embattled new leader of the Conservative party, spent hers on the front pages after picking an extravagantly unnecessary fight with Nigel Farage over

the reliability …

The Home Office is facing calls to introduce 10,000 refugee visas in an effort to reduce the death toll from people crossing the Channel in small boats, after a record number of lives were lost in 2024.

The groundbreaking proposal aimed at stopping migrants from resorting to using smugglers is …

The UK lost about 37 shops a day during 2024 in yet another brutal year for the high street, data suggests.

Almost 13,500 retail stores closed for good in the last 12 months, a rise of 28% on 2023 – although the losses were below the levels seen each year …

A healthy democracy depends on people participating in it. In the UK, the proportion of people doing so is falling. Voter turnout in general elections stayed above 70% from 1945 through to 1997, hitting more than 80% in 1950 and 1951. But it collapsed to 59.4% when Tony Blair won …

UK elections are “close to a tipping point” where they lose legitimacy because of plummeting voter turnout among renters and non-graduates, an influential thinktank has said.

Analysis by the Institute for Public Policy Studies (IPPR) found that the gap in turnout between those with and without university degrees grew …

Amany Killawi made a breakup playlist every time she was dumped, three in all. The playlists, which feature songs such as Gotye’s Somebody That I Used to Know and Apologize by OneRepublic, would make good soundtracks to romantic splits, but that’s not what they were. The playlists came together after …

Global stock markets climbed in 2024, helped by falling inflation and the US economy’s success in avoiding a hangover from a strong post-pandemic recovery.

While Europe and the UK struggled to make headway, the US maintained pole position at the top of the rich nations’ growth league, pushing shares in …

The father of Stephen Lawrence has said he would accept one of the teenager’s killers being released if he can show remorse.

A parole hearing could take place this year in the case of David Norris, one of only two of the killers of the 18-year-old to have been brought …

Frankly, the process has been going at a snail’s pace.

In 2019 the Australian government began a risk analysis on bringing European molluscs into the country for breeding and, eventually, eating.

Now farmers hope that early next year they will finally learn whether importing live garden snails –

Cornu …