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The small-boats ‘summit’ is doomed – there will be smugglers as long as there are people as desperate as I was

Public choosing ‘Shakespeare over invasion’ and becoming more discerning about Britain’s history, says Alan Lester

US tech titan Google employs "anti-competitive practices" with regards to online advertising, Britain's competition watchdog concluded Friday in provisional findings of a two-year long investigation.

GB are in Group D and will face 2022 champions Canada, Finland and Argentina in Manchester next week

Where once a privy out the back sufficed, now the children need their own loos too

Scottish runner joins Dame Sarah Storey in making it a successful start to day nine of the Games for ParalympicsGB in Paris

Areas where billion of pounds of extra investment are urgently needed include housing, energy and water

Exclusive: Reliance on fossil fuels fell in August to less than one-fifth of all electricity generated across country

ParalympicsGB’s men’s team defeated Germany 71-43 at the Bercy Arena to book their place in the final

Wherever you are on the political spectrum, shoplifting has come to symbolise today’s “broken Britain”. On the left, it is an inevitable product of the cost of living crisis and poverty, fuelled in part by growing levels of drug and alcohol addiction. On the right, it is a damning symptom…

Too much time and money is wasted on these buck-passing exercises, which only allow politicians and regulators off the hook, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins