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  • A crowd of pro-Gaza protesters in London

    More than 70 arrested at London protest against Israel’s war in Gaza

  • A protest against Rwanda deportations outside a Home Office building in Croydon in April 2024.

    Revealed: Conservatives spent £134m on never-used IT systems for failed Rwanda scheme

    Home Office official says data protection laws caused the cost of its forced removal programme to increase
  • A hand holding sample UK driving licenses

    UK to introduce digital driving licences to ‘transform public services’

    The digital option will be made available through a government app, but will not be mandatory

  • Clean water campaigners claim victory in Windermere sewage case

  • Sadiq Khan warns western democracy at risk from ‘resurgent fascism’ ahead of Trump inauguration

  • Reform deputy leader Richard Tice splitting time between Skegness and Dubai after partner leaves UK

  • UK’s TV workers exposed to ‘illegal or barely legal’ conditions and traumatic content

  • Three more people charged with murder after shooting in north-west London

  • Labour pledges to make Sunday trains as reliable as weekday services

  • ‘Discovered’ diaries of British socialite Unity Mitford reveal Hitler relationship

UK politics

  • Palestinian children walk past the rubble of buildings

    Home Office accused of ‘blocking’ people stuck in war zones from joining family in UK

  • Donald Trump speaking at a podium in front of three US flags

    ‘A watershed moment’: how will Labour play Trump 2.0?

    • Home Office upgrades inquiry into Kent immigration centre after legal challenge

    • Half of new hospitals promised by Boris Johnson will not be built for years

    • Starmer urges world leaders to ‘double down’ on support for Ukraine

    • Police fear ‘rightwing driven’ reaction to grooming gangs will harm victims

    • Minister denies Labour ‘governing by social media’ after new grooming gangs review ordered – as it happened

    • Strangers’ bar in parliament to close after alleged spiking incident

Analysis and explainers

  • generic image showing hands of doctor wearing blue surgical gloves and holding prescription pad; the pocket of their blue overalls contains a syringe and there is a stethoscope around their neck

    After call to overhaul diagnosis of obesity, how can you tell if your weight is a problem?

  • Yvette Cooper announcing the plans on Thursday.

    Labour’s pivot on grooming gangs may not be enough to silence critics

  • Rachel Reeves with book shelf and union jack flag behind

    Reeves clings to green shoots of recovery as UK economy flatlines

  • Rachel Reeves visits a Brompton store in Beijing

    Dip in UK inflation offers respite for Reeves and paves way for interest rate cut

Culture

  • British prime minister Margaret Thatcher looking pensive at the Conservative Party Conference in Blackpool in 1985

    ‘She would have been in awe of him’: how Laurence Olivier gave Margaret Thatcher private seduction lessons

  • A row of traditional wooden beach huts. A man on stepladder inspects one of them, which has a blue plaque

    Plan to demolish UK’s first public beach hut in Bournemouth prompts anger

    Local people criticise council over decision to raze hut built in 1909 to make way for work on nearby pier
  • Lisa Nandy at the Glasshouse in Gateshead.

    Lisa Nandy vows to bulldoze barriers in arts and turbocharge growth

    Culture secretary announces investment in arts at Gateshead summit and accuses Tories of stifling creative industries

  • Experts hope The Brutalist will revive interest in UK’s modernist buildings

  • Joan Plowright, celebrated star of stage and screen, dies aged 95

  • Killer of teenager Jimmy Mizen is now rapper promoted by BBC, reports say

  • Former Hollyoaks star Paul Danan dies aged 46

Education

  • Katharine Birbalsingh

    London headteacher criticises Labour proposals to limit logos on uniform

  • A shoplifter in a store

    People with working-class accents more likely to be suspected of committing crimes

  • A crowd of students outside a students' union building.

    Ministers to revise university freedom of speech legislation

  • School children raise their hands in a classroom.

    Send crisis in England risks creating ‘lost generation’ of children

Society

  • Illustration: Observer Design.

    ‘We think of the body as a map’: a new approach to deciphering long Covid

  • Stuart Bretherton sitting outside. He is wearing a dark, casual shirt and is smiling at the camera

    ‘It’s got people questioning the value of prisons’: a pro-Palestine activist on his time inside

    • Polmont prison and young offender institution near Falkirk

      Deaths at young offender institution in Scotland ‘could have been avoided’

    • A glass with a reddish liquid placed alongside a pice of Banisteriopsis caapi, the vine from which the brew is made

      Psychedelic drug DMT to be trialled on UK volunteers to tackle alcohol misuse

    • Keir Starmer

      Starmer urged to prioritise child sexual exploitation victims

Multimedia

  • Men ride horses through a bonfire made of pine branches during the annual ‘Las Luminarias’ festival in Avila, Spain.

    Riding through fire and a retiring Sumo grand champion- photos of the day: Friday

  • Flats in Lincoln

    Flats for sale in fashionable parts of cities in England – in pictures

    • Joe Biden sits behind large desk in the Oval Office

      President’s farewell and a prince in a pub: photos of the day – Thursday

    • Drones and firing over Kyiv as Starmer arrives to meet Zelenskyy – video

    • Sienna Miller

      Legends: famous faces shot by photographer Zoë Law – in pictures

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