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The chances of the UK striking key deals with Brussels are looking up, with many seeing the new foreign secretary David Cameron as the latest step in a rapprochement

Twenty years after Section 28’s repeal, Posener’s work – which sticks a middle finger up at puritanical censorship – is taking up a well-earned place in the Tate Britain

They used to say the sun never set on the British Empire because God wouldn’t trust an Englishman in the dark. And when darkness fell on the empire after the Second World War, that was proven unsettlingly true. While politicians in the post-war period spoke of a “wind of change”…

Reigning world No1 is plotting GB's downfall after he competes for a record-breaking ATP Finals title in Turin

Doctors have been warning of the health risks from sugar for almost 400 years. Here’s how we still ended up consuming so much of it

John Vaillant's Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World was awarded Britain's leading nonfiction book prize on Thursday in London.

Exclusive Ipsos UK survey lays bare the dire state of the country's public services

A book about an inferno that ravaged a Canadian city and has been called a portent of climate chaos has won Britain’s leading nonfiction book prize

Government and Ofgem aim to prevent delays to projects such as Tata’s £4bn electric battery factory

Britain’s medicines regulator has authorized the world’s first gene therapy treatment for sickle cell disease, in a move that could offer relief to thousands of people with the crippling disease in the U.K. In a statement on Thursday, the Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency said it had approved Casgevy, the…

While Vietnam remains a developing country, it boasts one of the best education systems in the world. According to data from the World Bank, Vietnamese students outperform not only their peers in nearby Malaysia and Thailand, but also those in wealthier countries such as Britain and Canada. Vietnamese students’ top-notch…