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  • Tuesday, 8 July, 2025
    UK crime
    Drop jury trials for some fraud and sexual crimes, official report recommends

    Former judge Brian Leveson says backlog in England and Wales ‘jeopardises’ entire system without radical overhaul

    General view of Blackfriars crown court
  • Sunday, 6 July, 2025
    Tom Tugendhat
    Pension and housing policy is a war on Britain’s young

    Residential property has become a tax-free retirement fund that excludes younger generations

    A person looks through the window of an estate agent in Birmingham
  • Friday, 4 July, 2025
    Palestine Action loses bid to secure block on UK government ban

    Activist group that broke into RAF military base will be proscribed as a terrorist organisation from midnight

    Protesters outside the Royal Courts of Justice on The Strand, central London, ahead of a hearing over whether proscribing of Palestine Action should be temporarily blocked
  • Friday, 4 July, 2025
    The Big Read
    How to get children reading again

    Fewer young people are reading for pleasure than ever before, with broad economic and social consequences. Can the trend be reversed?

    Nicki Duckett looks on at pupils at Silverdale Primary Academy
  • Thursday, 3 July, 2025
    FT MagazineSimon Kuper
    Myth of the big, bad megacity

    What the right feels about metropoles isn’t physical fear. It’s discomfort

    Illustration of a city skyline enclosed in a glass snow globe with colourful confetti inside
  • Sunday, 22 June, 2025
    LexTravel & leisure industry
    The new investment case for pubs Premium content

    In the past three months five pub groups have outperformed the FTSE 250

    A bartender pours a draught beer from a tap
  • Friday, 20 June, 2025
    Toby Porter
    We must renew palliative care focus as part of assisted dying decision

    The UK bill’s implementation period should be used to transform access to end-of-life support for all social groups

    Campaign placards outside the houses of parliament
  • Thursday, 19 June, 2025
    UK welfare reform
    Labour whip resigns over planned UK welfare cuts

    Vicky Foxcroft’s move could presage wider rebellion over changes to disability benefits

    Vicky Foxcroft
  • Tuesday, 17 June, 2025
    Maternal health
    MPs vote to decriminalise abortion in England and Wales

    Women would no longer face a criminal prosecution for ending their pregnancy after 24 weeks

    Activists from pro-choice group ‘Abortion Rights’ gathered near the House of Commons on Tuesday as MPs voted
  • Monday, 16 June, 2025
    Stephen Bush
    If we don’t watch TV together, can we still live together?

    Fragmentation of both our entertainment and our news harms societies as well

    Illustration of four cards with different drawings connected to make a figure: David Mitchell’s head, torso of an armoured knight, lower half of a Dr Who Dalek, and the bottom of a robe and feet
  • Sunday, 15 June, 2025
    National Health Service
    UK patients to gain direct access to clinical trials, says Streeting

    Expansion of NHS app comes as part of government’s 10-year plan for health service

    A researcher in a laboratory uses genome sequencing equipment
  • Tuesday, 10 June, 2025
    UK immigration
    UK should relax income rules for family visas, government advisers say

    Requirement of £29,000 to bring a spouse to Britain is among highest in advanced world

    UK border control
  • Monday, 9 June, 2025
    OutlookJosh Spero
    The UK Aids quilt is more relevant than ever

    These textiles serve as a poignant reminder of the horrors of the 1980s crisis

    Colourful quilted panels laid out on a marble floor
  • Saturday, 31 May, 2025
    London’s Garrick Club admits just 3 women after rule change

    Some members’ ‘fusty’ attitude leads to suggestion that ending men-only stance was a PR exercise

    (L-R) Actors Dame Judi Dench, Dame Siân Phillips and Celia Imrie
  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    Andy Haldane
    Governments are chasing the wrong rainbows

    Opportunity and upward mobility are more important than GDP growth

    Jonathan McHugh illustration of a man holding a cracked flower pot containing a plant, with watering cans flying around it
  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    News in-depthUK immigration
    ‘I’ve been tricked’: highly paid foreign workers reconsider ties to UK after rule change

    White-collar professionals fear being ‘kept in limbo’ after ministers extend waiting time for indefinite leave to remain

    Alexander Chreky
  • Wednesday, 28 May, 2025
    Biometrics
    UK must toughen regulation of facial recognition, say AI experts

    Campaigners call on Keir Starmer’s government to create clear laws to tackle growing use of the technology

    A police van with a facial recognition system at Oxford Circus, London, England on May 13 2025
  • Wednesday, 28 May, 2025
    UK welfare reform
    Ministers look at softening UK welfare cuts to avert rebellion by Labour MPs

    Government is seeking to save £5bn a year by reforming disability benefits known as ‘personal independence payments’

    A ‘Crips Against Cuts’ protest on College Green against the UK government’s proposals for cuts to disability benefits
  • Tuesday, 27 May, 2025
    Liverpool
    Man arrested on suspicion of attempted murder following Liverpool crash

    The people carrier struck pedestrians in the city centre at around 6pm on Monday, resulting in 65 casualties

    Forensic officers work near the site of an incident where a car drove into a crowd of Liverpool fans during a parade celebrating their side’s Premier League soccer title, in central Liverpool
  • Monday, 26 May, 2025
    Stephen Bush
    Britain’s two-child benefit cap must go

    The government should recognise that it has a stake in its people having enough children

    Illustration of a man in a suit holding up a three-person paper-doll chain
  • Monday, 26 May, 2025
    UK employment
    Sick need support to stay in work, says former John Lewis chair

    Charlie Mayfield speaks out as ministers face pressure over planned cuts to disability benefits

    Charlie Mayfield, former chair of John Lewis
  • Saturday, 24 May, 2025
    Anjana Ahuja
    Semicolons bring the drama; that’s why I love them

    Neither full stop nor comma, they symbolise a nuance that is disappearing in a polarised world

    Keyboard
  • Friday, 23 May, 2025
    Camilla Cavendish
    On free speech, Britain can learn from America

    Police are dragged into investigating petty incidents, undermining trust in our freedom to express opinions

    Illustration of a Newton’s cradle with each of the swinging balls as a speech bubble and one swinging the other way with an exclamation mark in it
  • Wednesday, 21 May, 2025
    Environment
    Wild camping on Dartmoor is legal, rules UK Supreme Court

    Ruling ends long battle over public’s right to camp in the Devon national park

    MPs and other campaigners outside the Supreme Court in London on Wednesday
  • Tuesday, 20 May, 2025
    UK employment
    UK youth risk jobs ‘scrap heap’ without urgent action, minister says

    New research shows people from disadvantaged backgrounds 66% more likely not to be in work, education or training

    Alison McGovern
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