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  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
    UK police
    Met police use of facial recognition in London surges

    Force used the technology 117 times from January to August, up from 32 between 2020 and 2023

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  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    UK immigration
    Overseas student and worker curbs will cost UK business over £40bn

    Home Office assessments come as new Labour government presses ahead with curbs on immigration

    Students from LSE celebrate graduating
  • Tuesday, 24 September, 2024
    UK economy
    UK household disposable income fell below pre-pandemic levels in 2023

    ONS figures underline impact of rising prices and higher interest rates on personal finances

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  • Sunday, 22 September, 2024
    Government urged to improve frontline health services after drop in childhood jabs

    Lack of appointments blamed for fall in take-up of key vaccinations

    A nurse is administering the NHS 4-in-1 pre-school booster and MMR second dose immunisation to a three-year-old girl who is sitting on a woman's lap.
  • Tuesday, 17 September, 2024
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    Tesco plans to expand use of AI to personalise how people shop

    UK’s biggest supermarket says technology may nudge people to buy healthier products and reduce waste

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  • Saturday, 14 September, 2024
    Andy Haldane
    What Taylor Swift and Oasis can teach us about the economy

    The music industry’s shift from product to performance foreshadows a widespread move towards intangible assets

  • Saturday, 14 September, 2024
    Alex von Tunzelmann
    Kitsch, pompous and nostalgic: why honorific statues are so bad

    Often the pet project of a zealous sponsor, they tend to go untested with the public until their unveiling

    A statue of Queen Elizabeth II, created by artist Anto Brennan, stands alongside an earlier work of Prince Philip in Antrim Castle Gardens, Belfast
  • Monday, 9 September, 2024
    Edward Timpson
    The best support for children keeps things simple

    Policies that actually work trust local communities and focus on getting the fundamentals right

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  • Monday, 9 September, 2024
    Catherine, Princess of Wales
    Princess Catherine announces she is ‘cancer free’

    UK royal says completion of chemotherapy treatment is ‘relief’ but stresses full recovery will take time

    Princess of Wales with the Prince of Wales, Prince George (right), Princess Charlotte (second right) and Prince Louis (left).
  • Friday, 6 September, 2024
    UK riots
    Nine-year jail term for man involved in asylum hotel fire during UK riots

    Sentence is one of the longest in connection with far-right violence over the summer

    Thomas Birley holding a police baton during the riot in Rotherham
  • Wednesday, 28 August, 2024
    UK inflation
    UK mortgage holders and renters hit hardest by inflation

    ONS data underscores uneven social impact of surge in living costs

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  • Saturday, 24 August, 2024
    UK schools
    Dulwich College headmaster steps down after outburst at staff party

    Joseph Spence to move to ambassadorial role at £55,000-a-year private school after ‘losing [his] temper’ with a colleague

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  • Monday, 19 August, 2024
    UK riots
    UK to hold offenders in police cells amid justice system ‘crisis’

    Operation Early Dawn activated following violent unrest across country in recent weeks

    Police on horses patrol as anti-racism counter-protesters gather in Preston, UK
  • Saturday, 17 August, 2024
    Janan Ganesh
    Beware the professional ghetto

    The perils of too much socialising with your peers 

    Black and white photograph of three white middle-aged men in dark suits, white shirts and dark ties, looking across as if listening to someone out of frame.
  • Wednesday, 14 August, 2024
    Robert Shrimsley
    UK needs no lessons from apologists for rioters

    The historic mission of mainstream politics is to listen to the real communities, not their malign mouthpieces

    Ann Kiernan illustration of a Banksy-style graffiti of a rioter about to throw a brick but who has a surveillance camera in his face and a hand reaching out to him with handcuffs.
  • Wednesday, 14 August, 2024
    News in-depthUK riots
    False information cases in wake of riots test UK’s online safety law

    Authorities have moved swiftly to punish people alleged to have been involved in the worst unrest England has experienced since 2011

    Montage of two smartphones showing TikTok and X against a background showing a youth in a hooded top about to throw an object
  • Tuesday, 13 August, 2024
    UK politics
    Tom Tugendhat hits out at Starmer’s response to far-right violence

    Tory leadership hopeful accuses PM of ‘falling short’ in ‘first test’ since taking office

    Tom Tugendhat
  • Monday, 12 August, 2024
    UK riots
    Two 12-year-olds plead guilty over UK riots

    Prosecutions for violent disorder are youngest to date over far-right violence

    Riots in Southport on July 30
  • Sunday, 11 August, 2024
    UK riots
    Ministers warn UK riots will set back efforts to fix justice system

    Labour government inherited Crown Court backlog of 68,000 cases and prison overcrowding crisis

    A police officer looking at a car that is on fire
  • Sunday, 11 August, 2024
    Luke Tryl
    Rioting has left Britain deeply shaken

    Fear and dismay are widely shared but new research reveals more profound, and differing, sources of unease

  • Saturday, 10 August, 2024
    ExplainerUK riots
    How are judges dealing with England’s rioters?

    Fast-track hearings have led to more than 30 individuals appearing in Crown Court so far as prosecutors bring range of charges

    Montage of photos issued by police forces and the CPS of some of the defendants who have appeared in court following serious disorder during anti-immigration protests in the UK
  • Friday, 9 August, 2024
    UK riots
    UK considers forcing tech firms to remove ‘legal but harmful’ content after riots

    Proposals come as first person jailed for online posts that stoked far-right violence

    Riot police hold back protesters after disorder broke out on July 30 in Southport
  • Friday, 9 August, 2024
    Camilla Cavendish
    When the dust settles after the riots, Britain will need a rethink

    While lurid predictions of civil war are misplaced, this is not a country at ease with itself

    A man wearing a Union Jack scarf around his eyes brandishes a mobile phone in one hand and a brick in the other
  • Friday, 9 August, 2024
    UK riots
    Hooligans, criminals, children: Who are the UK rioters?

    First ‘swift justice’ court cases show those convicted for far-right violence

    Rioters in Rotherham
  • Friday, 9 August, 2024
    The Weekend Essay
    How to read a riot

    Violence on British streets has reopened an age-old debate about what drives disorder — and what can be done about it

    A group of men are gathered on a grassy area, holding planks and sticks. Some are draped in England flags, one waves a union jack and many are filming with phones
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