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Help with bills via a social tariff would hark back to the success of the Covid universal credit uplift, writes Polly Toynbee

EXCLUSIVE: Deputy PM Oliver Dowden takes aim at the striking unions, the bigger Ulez and backs Susan Hall as ‘excellent’ choice for Mayor

Boss of Britain’s oldest Brewer hails the return of office workers and dismisses surge pricing in his pubs

Britain’s biggest art prize has got Eastbourne excited. The way the annual show has been embraced by the community is more powerful than the work itself, writes Mark Hudson

Aftershocks continue to be felt from Suella Braverman’s incendiary speech on immigration. In one of her most controversial remarks, she spoke of ‘an existential challenge for the political and cultural institutions of the West’ and declared that the ‘misguided dogma of multiculturalism’ has allowed people to come to Britain with…

Former PM will push for plan to ‘make Britain grow again’, in attempt to put pressure on Rishi Sunak

Although the Potter role raised Gambon’s international profile and introduced him to a new generation of fans, he had long been recognized as one of Britain’s leading actors.

We must defend the right to offend. The most important aspect of the right to offend is the one that confronts those in power with the truths that they most eagerly wish to conceal. Without this right, the powerful become untouchable.

I don’t know about you, but I’m suffering from chronic metaphor fatigue. There is nothing that goes horribly wrong, falls apart, arrives late, costs too much, delays millions and undermines our sanity that cannot be co-opted as a metaphor for Britain’s dysfunction in 2023. Everyone wants to control the narrative…

Net zero tsar Chris Skidmore said the country is lagging behind Europe on energy efficiency.

The celebrated filmmaker behind ‘Kes’ and ‘I, Daniel Blake’ speaks to James Mottram about the culmination of his unofficial trilogy of films about modern Britain, his expulsion from the Labour Party, and who he’ll vote for come election time