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Elon Musk has denied he is gearing up to chuck $100m at Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party, as it pushes to take on the Tories. But the very fact the question arose is a reminder of the pressing need for political funding reform on this side of the Atlantic.

Musk …

When the family of Roger Leadbeater, a 74-year-old man stabbed to death while walking his dog yards from his home in Sheffield, went to lay flowers at the scene two days later, they were met with a horrifying sight.

“Nobody had cleaned the scene. It was the most barbaric thing …

After securing a win inside three days in a howling gale, the series victory over New Zealand also claimed with a Test match to spare, Ben Stokes was blown away himself. “Quite phenomenal,” was the England captain’s reaction to

the monstrous 323-run scoreline

“Everyone remembers their first Nokia,” says Mark Mason, who joined the telecoms company’s design team back in its 1990s heyday. “When you say the name, it evokes a memory.”

This is not as hyperbolic as it sounds – in 1998, the Finnish consumer electronics company was the bestselling phone brand …

Migrant rights groups have warned that British residents could still be barred from returning from abroad because of the switch to digital visas, despite the government extending the deadline by three months.

The

Home Office announced last week

Right on cue, just as his mum is explaining how the unexpected sight of him instantly made everything bearable when confronted by more Olympic heartache, Tommy pipes up on the baby monitor; the squawks of a premature wake from the morning nap.

“Sorry, I’ll have to stick a dummy …

Crisis averted. Panic stations vacated. All units stand down. Australian cricket followers were hitting every big red button they could find after India handed out a hammering in Perth, but the Australian team hit the big pink button in Adelaide. A different style of thrashing has levelled the five-match series. …

The relationship between the prime minister and chancellor is one of the most crucial in British politics. My old friend Nigel Lawson (chancellor 1983-89) certainly thought so, which is why it pained him and Margaret Thatcher when they fell out over whether the UK should put the pound into the …

Only half of the Home Office’s recent asylum decisions have met its own internal quality checks, significantly fewer than before Rishi Sunak’s push to clear a backlog of old claims.

Civil servants and lawyers say errors and omissions are also driving a huge increase in costly legal challenges, with more …

Images of arrested people who were innocent of any crimes are still being stored in a police database that may be used for facial recognition purposes, an official report has warned.

In 2012, the high court ruled that keeping the images of people who faced no action or who were …