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Despite its trials saving thousands during the pandemic, funding is being stopped for the groundbreaking UK Recovery programme

Josh Kerr, in the men’s 3,000m, and Molly Caudery, in the women’s pole vault, won gold for Great Britain at the world indoor championships

The author and Labour MP on his book about the last men in Britain to be hanged for their sexuality, his misgivings about the Church of England and the novel he always goes back to

The Tory leader has been flabby about policing extremism on his own side

It’s rare to feel excited about UK housing developments, but this ambitious project in Sussex is truly remarkable, says writer and curator Phineas Harper

Now available at supermarket chains as well cafes and bakeries, the pastel de nata has become a UK staple

From a huge budget deficit to weak GDP and a record rise in tax, we look at the background to the Tory budget

PM says in No10 address that extremist groups are a growing threat to British democracy

A spotlight on the Leeds music scene, from visionary tracks about broken Britain to early Beefheart-meets-Disney

The past was not a good place to die in Britain. Frightening diseases that are essentially vanquished in modern times were rife, deadly, and untreatable. Think syphilis, leprosy and the Black Death. Then there was the endemic violence. Readers of Alice Roberts’s Crypt, the third in her trilogy of books…

The level of debate was like a saloon bar shouting match. But all juries need reform, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins