Rising costs likely to outstrip funding in coming year, despite recent injections of additional money Schools in England are facing “death by a thousand cuts”, headteachers have said, after a leading economics thinktank said rising costs are likely to outstrip funding in the coming year, despite recent injections of additional […]

Hospitals in Birmingham, Cornwall and Liverpool among those affected, with one patient forced to wait 50 hours to be admitted A number of NHS trusts have declared critical incidents due to “exceptionally high demands” in emergency departments, with a patient at one hospital forced to wait 50 hours to be […]

Inquiry hears elite forces had a ‘kill all males on target whether they posed a threat or not’ policy in Afghanistan Afghans who were killed by members of the SAS in Afghanistan were described dismissively as having been “flat packed” according to revealing testimony given by a former member of […]

Russia’s defence ministry claims capture of Kurakhove, a Ukrainian logistics hub which Russian forces have been advancing toward for months. What we know on Day 1,048. See all our Ukraine coverage Ukrainian president, Voldymyr Zelenskyy, said that almost 15,000 Russian soldiers had died after five months of fighting in Kursk. […]

Ministers say predators could face two years in jail, and plan to include creating sexually explicit deepfakes in bill Predators who take intimate images of unwitting victims or install cameras to do so could face up to two years’ in jail under plans drawn up by Labour. Ministers have also […]

British Retail Consortium figures show sales growth close to flatlining, as card spending fails to rise Britain’s largest retailers are warning they could be forced to cut thousands of jobs this year as the industry braces for higher taxes and employment costs after a bleak Christmas shopping season. In the […]

Trudeau says he will bring an end to his nearly 10-year spell in power once his Liberal party has found a new leader Justin Trudeau has said he will step down as Canada’s prime minister after his party finds a new leader, a decision that in effect brings an end […]

PM also criticises politicians ‘jumping on the bandwagon’ amid row over action on child sexual exploitation Keir Starmer has condemned Elon Musk’s increasingly erratic attacks on the government, suggesting his “lies and misinformation” on grooming gangs were amplifying the “poison” of the far right. The prime minister angrily criticised Conservative […]

This year’s awards season kicks off with big screen frontrunners such as The Brutalist, Wicked and Conclave, while on the small screen, Shōgun and The Bear lead the way Full list of winners Zoë Kravitz could make a hot water bottle look chic, and here she doesn’t have to because […]

It is unclear what prompted Musk to write on X that Farage ‘doesn’t have what it takes’ to be Reform UK’s leader Elon Musk has called for Nigel Farage to be replaced as Reform UK leader hours after Farage described the billionaire businessman as “a hero”, in what is likely […]