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I can’t really claim I had a well-developed political understanding at the age of six years when the Emergency was imposed by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1975. But I do have a visceral political memory of the times, the black cloud of suffocation as well as the spirit of…

“In my 33 years as an educator, I’ve never known teachers to come out against a bond. I’ve never seen so much community involvement and participation, mainly because we do not trust Mike Miles.”

Rachel Reeves throws down budget gauntlet to new Tory chief as party’s first black leader is congratulated on win

Terrorist Callum Parslow was previously jailed for sending 10 women sexually explicit and misogynistic messages, and targeted a former GB News presenter

Sources say key people at Clifford Chance were not consulted, as it emerges another company refused job due to reputational concerns

Badenoch says Tories need ‘a clear plan to change this country by changing the way that government works’

Two children decode a dystopia, in a chilling and wistful novel that speaks to our times

A note from the interim editor-in-chief

From loving letters to his parents expressing early anxieties to later exchanges with scientific heavyweights, this collection of correspondence only cements Sacks’s legacy as a man of great compassion