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A damning new report accuses the City regulator of getting too close to the very sector it was set up to protect consumers from
Billions of pounds in spending remains unaccounted for, with the National Audit Office unable to sign off the nation’s accounts
Experts say a complex but systematic series of electoral violations rather than a ‘single smoking gun’ have undermined Georgia’s parliamentary elections
Union leader accuses the Labour Government of “trying to face both ways” amid threatened strikes over orders for civil servants to return to the office
The financial data company is accused of listing dozens of bonds as raising funds for a ‘sustainable purpose’ when they could be used to fund fossil fuel companies and deforestation
The last Government’s battle with unions has ended with PCS now able to claw back tens of millions of pounds from Government
How did media outlets allow the narrative about this story to become so quickly dominated by one side?
As Donald Trump prepares to usher in an oligarchic dark age, Democrats must reflect on how their own flirtation with plutocracy shattered their party’s chances
Hundreds of millions were wasted on contracts with zombie companies which vanished before any taxpayers’ cash could be recovered
The admission came in a legal statement by Keir Starmer’s Government to the High Court, amid a challenge to the UK’s arms and F-35 exports to Israel
World leaders are failing to commit to the dramatic action required to prevent devastating climate change, reports Mike Buckley from the COP29 summit
The spectre of Boris Johnson’s assault on standards in public life is slowly retreating, argues Josiah Mortimer
As tensions mount over long range missile attacks on Russia, Chris York explains the daily routine for Ukrainians living in the capital Kyiv
The global consensus on tackling climate change is fragmenting at the very moment action is most needed
“We have to [only] choose the ‘good’ ones that have the best pictures or the highest fatalities”, says Laura Tobin
The Prince is suing the publisher of The Sun and the now-defunct News of the World alleging it unlawfully obtained private information about him from 1996 until 2011
Conservative ministers purchased the contaminated land and asbestos-ridden buildings, despite warnings from officials
Paul Niland explains why Trump’s talk of a ‘deal’ for peace will never work
‘I don’t fully understand why so many people would faint from horror at the thought of hearing a dog screaming in agony but have no real issue with the idea of a human doing that’
The President elect’s appointment of a group of fawning and ideologically blinded advisers should worry us all, writes former UK Diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall
YouTuber Niko Omilana’s prank highlights how few checks are made on the real identities of those who stand for election
Rachel Reeves will be leant on by City figures to deregulate the sector ahead of her keynote speech this Thursday. But transparency campaigners warn too many are falling victim to predatory finance firms
Remember this the next time you see a Mail headline lambasting human rights lawyers and the ECHR
Wondering what you’ve missed amid the noise surrounding Trump’s victory? Here are some stories you won’t have heard much about this past week
Hysteria around Labour’s VAT on private schools and inheritance tax on farms are not the existential threats they’ve been made out to be in the press
Governments around the world need to act now to prevent the worst of what is coming our way
After 80 years, Polish-Jewish lawyer Raphael Lemkin’s idea is more relevant than ever
A long awaited plan for ME and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome sufferers is due to be published this winter.
Six women were charged in the UK for ending their own pregnancy after the US overturned abortion rights in 2022. Investigations have also exposed how US lobby groups are funding UK anti-abortion organisations
Campaigners hope a proposed new law could bring an end to a system that puts vulnerable people into even more danger
Rescuers on the ground in Ukraine detail the ‘massive risks’ now involved in evacuating residents in areas under attack from Russian forces
The Conservative Party’s new leader has appointed a series of Shadow Cabinet ministers whose Government records were clouded in scandal
US Swing states are not the only focus of Russian interference, with the Kremlin’s attempts to swing elections in Moldova and Georgia in stark relief
The new Conservative Leader combines culture war politics with a deregulation agenda that would set the country back decades, Jon Bloomfield and David Edgar report
Lobby groups are accused of whipping up fears about Labour’s inheritance tax reforms despite figures suggesting the vast majority of UK farms will be unaffected
A systems lens suggests a quarter of GDP could evaporate on a pathway to violent civil unrest, concentration camps, and genocidal violence that would be a free gift to Putin
History will show the economic and social legacy of the outgoing President to have been leagues ahead of his predecessor Donald Trump
Byline Times reveals new WhatsApp messages and witness testimony on the reality star’s ‘sextortion’ by a leading TV executive, as a Labour Minister and former police chief demand a review of the investigation into his disappearance
The unspoken truth of Rachel Reeves’ Budget is that leaving the EU has left Britain permanently worse off