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              • Friday, 10 January, 2025
                UK crime
                ‘Anybody can be a victim’: what do UK grooming gangs look like today?

                New data shows the shape of child sexual abuse after Elon Musk highlights decades-old scandal

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              • Friday, 10 January, 2025
                Social affairs
                UK businesses back scheme to prevent repeat offending

                Prisons minister James Timpson’s initiative will see people on probation and serving sentences outside jail helped into work

                James Timpson
              • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
                National Health Service
                Flu cases in England’s hospitals soar after season starts early

                NHS data shows mounting pressure from ‘quad-demic’ of viruses

                Paramedics and ambulance staff move a patient to The Royal London Hospital in London
              • Wednesday, 8 January, 2025
                Advertising Standards Authority UK
                UK watchdog bans adverts featuring burning dollars

                Posters from Islamic finance start-up Wahed Invest likely to cause ‘serious offence’, rules ASA

                Poster showing Ismail ibn Musa Menk, left, and Khabib Nurmagomedov pointing up as burning US banknotes fall, next to the caption ‘Join the Money Revolution’
              • Tuesday, 7 January, 2025
                Breaking news in brief
                New updates from January 7: Trump refuses to rule out force to take Greenland and Panama Canal; Meta ends fact-checking
              • Saturday, 4 January, 2025
                Camilla Cavendish
                Secularists must remember that religion is on the rise

                Western rationalists have always assumed that atheism is the logical end point of prosperity. But I’m no longer so sure

                Efi Chalikopoulou illustration of a person looking up at the sky as rays stream down from a large sun
              • Friday, 3 January, 2025
                National Health Service
                Flu season ‘one of the worst’ on record as cases jump in England

                NHS data shows number of people in hospital with the illness has quadrupled over past month

                An ambulance crew moves a patient outside a hospital
              • Thursday, 2 January, 2025
                Elon Musk
                Tories seek UK probe into rape gangs as Musk spat with Starmer escalates

                Tech billionaire claims PM failed to tackle grooming scandal when he was head of prosecution service

                Elon Musk
              • Thursday, 2 January, 2025
                UK politics
                UK tech secretary backs away from social media ban for under-16s

                Peter Kyle had said option was ‘on the table’ after Australia restricted use of sites such as Instagram

                Peter Kyle
              • Saturday, 28 December, 2024
                LexTechnology
                Hire purchase gets a new lease of life Premium content

                Technology’s biggest failure now is its propensity to be rendered inferior by successive versions

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              • Saturday, 28 December, 2024
                UK politics
                Starmer must make 2025 ‘year of delivery’, says union boss

                TUC chief Paul Nowak calls for prime minister to set out road map on public services and see off populist right

                TUC general secretary Paul Nowak
              • Thursday, 26 December, 2024
                Jonathan Goodman
                The enduring power of an accent

                Identifying one’s tribe may be a matter of survival and we are surprisingly good at detecting fakes

                Illustration of two women in military fatigues seen in profile with speech bubbles coming out of their mouths. One has the shadow of a bear on the wall behind her while the other has the shadow of a dove
              • Wednesday, 25 December, 2024
                Ella Risbridger
                The paradox of Christmas is what makes it so compelling

                In containing everything all at once, it turns a magnifying glass on your life

                Illustration of a partridge with red ribbons swirling around it and gold rings and pears
              • Tuesday, 24 December, 2024
                The Big Read
                How we fell out of love with dating apps

                The biggest online dating companies are in crisis, as women and younger users look elsewhere, towards niche sites or real-life meets

                A couple on a date reflected in a mirror behind the table where they are sitting
              • Tuesday, 17 December, 2024
                UK immigration
                Skilled migrants contribute more to public finances than working Britons, report finds

                Migration Advisory Committee figures highlight trade-offs of tighter UK immigration policy

                People waiting in a queue to enter the UK at passport control at Heathrow airport
              • Saturday, 14 December, 2024
                Data PointsJohn Burn-Murdoch
                The London problem is holding young Brits back

                Americans and Europeans have a choice of places to prosper

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              • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
                Anjana Ahuja
                Our humdrum A-Z goes back further than we think

                An archaeological discovery in Syria may force a revision of the alphabet’s origin story

                Andy Carter illustration of an archaeologist dusting sand away from a gift tag, enabling him to read the writing.
              • Tuesday, 3 December, 2024
                Food diet
                UK junk food ad ban includes porridge and pitta bread snacks

                Unhealthy foods cannot be shown online or before 9pm under new rules to cut childhood obesity

                An oat-based cereal
              • Tuesday, 3 December, 2024
                Paula Harriott
                Old convictions are holding too many back

                Criminal records should be reformed to offer employers a better, fairer way to assess potential hires

                Louise Haigh
              • Thursday, 28 November, 2024
                Lucy Webster
                The assisted dying bill does not protect sick and disabled people

                This legislation does not contain watertight safeguards, leaving vulnerable groups at risk

              • Wednesday, 27 November, 2024
                Anjana Ahuja
                On assisted dying, are we really any good at predicting survival?

                Forecasting the last seven days of life is harder than the final 24 hours; beyond that, things become shakier still

                Andy Carter illustration of a doctor leading a patient into a glowing section of a clock suggesting their time has come, having estimated their remaining time left.
              • Tuesday, 26 November, 2024
                UK politics
                Judges’ role in assisted dying bill criticised as ‘rubber stamping’

                Former members of judiciary question whether their role would be a proper safeguard

                Campaigners in support of voluntary euthanasia protest outside parliament in Westminster, London, England
              • Tuesday, 26 November, 2024
                UK employment
                Starmer ‘youth guarantee’ will not fix fall in apprenticeships, says UK industry body

                Warning comes as prime minister unveils proposals to boost labour market

                Keir Starmer talks to apprentices during a visit to BAE Systems in Barrow in Furness, UK
              • Monday, 25 November, 2024
                UK floods
                Storm Bert reinforces need to prioritise UK’s flood defences

                West Worcestershire MP urges Environment Agency to expedite permanent scheme as storm causes damage across country

                Two shop owners console each other as they clear furniture from their flood damaged property in Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire, England on November 25 2024
              • Monday, 25 November, 2024
                Media
                UK news coverage at risk of ‘fracturing irreparably’ within 10 years, peers warn

                Lords communications committee calls on government to take steps to avert ‘two-tier’ media environment

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