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Challenges facing institution include debate over Parthenon marbles, protests about BP links and a police investigation into missing items

It is thought around 3,000 priceless items were taken from museum storeroom, ranging from 15th century BC to 19th century AD

The concept of austerity featured prominently in the first round of hearings of the UK’s COVID inquiry, which has recently come to a close. Notably, former chancellor George Osborne claimed that austerity had a “positive” effect on the UK’s ability to withstand the pandemic.

Osborne’s regressive benefit policy is despised even by some of its Tory architects. But Starmer is in no mood to make spending promises

Regulators to be asked about how £10m scam was investigated, as Guardian Today in Focus podcast raises fresh questions about case

Designed by to morph from small-scale to vast and host the city’s international festival, Manchester’s new £211m complex feels like a missed opportunity

People like Matt Hancock and George Osborne show little respect for the process, but we bereaved families won’t give up, says writer Suyin Haynes

Science advisers demand creation of ‘cohort’ of community health workers to run test and trace

‘There’s a lot of unhappiness’: Keir Starmer hit by rebellion after backtracking on plans to scrap hated Tory policy