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Not everything has gone smoothly for Keir Starmer. At the end of Labour’s first calendar year in power since Gordon Brown was in Downing Street a decade and a half ago, the prime minister is on the back foot after a run of disappointing economic updates.

With a backlash over …

As the year draws to a close, South Koreans must have hoped for respite from the political chaos visited on their country in recent weeks.

It was going to take something out of the ordinary to overshadow

Friday’s impeachment of Han Duck-soo

The manosphere, the misogynist internet world populated by influencers such as Andrew Tate, is widely recognised as a toxic space where young men are at risk of radicalisation. Now, say researchers, women and girls are being sucked into potentially dangerous online spaces of their own: the femosphere.

It is a …

The information watchdog has been asked to investigate “authoritarian” government vetting that caused speakers to be banned from official events for criticising ministers.

Two experts, who discovered that civil servants had combed through years of social media posts to judge them “unsuitable” to address conferences, believe the practice was covert …

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK is planning to use a potential byelection to test its strength in Labour strongholds as it seeks to deploy its growing membership in local elections.

The party has been attempting to keep up its momentum after securing five MPs and more than 4m votes at the …

The end of the year is a time for pausing, reflection and exhaustion. But before throwing ourselves into 2025, it’s worth sifting through the remnants of 2024 to see who in the business world has done something worth remembering.

So, once more with gusto, the

Observer

• A Jeju Air flight from Bangkok carrying 181 passengers and crew has crashed while attempting a landing at Muan international airport

  in south-western South Korea on Sunday morning.

• All but two of the people onboard Flight 7C2216 are presumed dead

  , according to local fire authorities. Two people …

In Georgia’s turbulent political standoff, President Salome Zourabichvili has emerged as a defiant figure.

Zourabichvili’s role in Georgia is ceremonial, but far from fading into irrelevance in the twilight of her presidency, she has become a rallying figure for those opposed to the erosion of democracy and the abandonment of …

• Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has called on Russia to provide a clearer explanation of the Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash as he expressed condolences to his Azeri counterpart.

  “The key priority now is a thorough investigation to provide answers to all questions about what really happened. Russia must provide …

Police have arrested a third person suspected of murder after a man was fatally hit by a car outside a pub on Christmas Day.

Officers were called to reports of an incident at the Gate Street Bar and Grill in Blackburn, just before 4.50pm, after an argument in the venue.