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  • Lord Timpson.

    Prisons minister aims to close one women’s jail in England and Wales

  • he sign outside the Home Office in Westminster, London,

    Calls for Home Office to protect asylum seekers after accommodation violence

    Exclusive: NGOs say safeguarding policies need improving, as victims tell of multiple assaults and incidents of race hate
  • The Bank of England

    UK ‘second most attractive country for investment’, survey finds

    The survey of chief executives, published ahead of the World Economic Forum, follows an upgraded growth forecast from the IMF

  • Hospitality firms ‘to incur £1bn costs from employer NICs on 774,000 more workers’

  • Work-life balance more important than pay for employees worldwide

  • AI tool can give ministers ‘vibe check’ on whether MPs will like policies

  • Live
    David Beckham urges World Economic Forum to fight for girls’ rights – as it happened

  • Thirty-two people to give evidence for Guardian in libel case brought by actor Noel Clarke

  • Keir Starmer orders public inquiry into Southport attack

  • Trump presidency will help to ‘occupy Brussels’, says Orbán

UK politics

  • Nigel Farage at a Trump rally in November 2024.

    Farage claims chance he could be PM within four years is up to 25% – as it happened

  • Wes Streeting speaks in the Commons

    Work on some of Boris Johnson’s ‘40 new hospitals’ will not start until 2039

    • Southport killer’s father stopped him taking taxi to ex-school before attack

    • Delivery apps urged to lift lid on ‘black-box algorithms’ affecting UK couriers

    • Overhaul ‘unsustainable’ incapacity benefits system, Lords committee urges

    • ‘I don’t trust them’: voters wary as Reform eyes possible Runcorn byelection

    • Wales failing to tackle alarming decline in nature, report finds

    • University degree still best for young Britons’ life chances, says former minister

Analysis and explainers

  • An ice fisherman walks on a frozen Lake Champlain in Vermont as temperatures plummet this week.

    Weather tracker: polar vortex to bring severe cold spell to much of US

  • A man shows the work and pensions secretary, Liz Kendall, some carpentry work as she visits a skills centre in London.

    Can Labour cut welfare spending and still be seen as a party of social justice?

  • Rachel Reeves

    Market turmoil has calmed but Rachel Reeves faces more challenges ahead

  • 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?

Culture

  • David Hockney’s After Blake: Less is Known than People Think

    David Hockney unveils unseen work for major Paris retrospective

  • Portrait of Jack Kerouac

    ‘His soulful best’: Jack Kerouac’s Buddhist writings to be published for the first time

    Fifty years after his death, On the Road author’s spiritual reflections show him in a whole new light
  • Bela Lugosi as the Monster and Ilona Massey as Baroness Elsa Frankenstein in Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943).

    Frankenstein inspired by suicide of Mary Shelley’s half-sister, book reveals

    New collection of author’s diary entries provides tragic insight

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

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

  • Lisa Nandy vows to bulldoze barriers in arts and turbocharge growth

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

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

  • Weight-loss injection pen with cap on.

    Weight-loss jabs linked to reduced risk of 42 conditions including dementia

  • (L to r) Consultant neurosurgeon Asim Sheikh, patient Ruvimbo Kaviya, biomedical engineer Lisa Ferrie and facial surgeon Jiten Parmar.

    Medics remove tumour using keyhole surgery through eye socket in UK first

    • For sale and for rent signs outside terraced houses in a residential area of Nottingham.

      UK housing market ‘starts new year with a bang’, says Rightmove

    • Pollution and rubbish floats on the surface of a Canterbury city centre weir.

      Treasury seeks to keep water firm fines earmarked for sewage cleanups

    • New council houses with rooftop solar panels in Top Valley, Nottingham.

      Quarter of English councils may have to sell homes to balance books, study finds

Multimedia

  • people in formal wear stand and clap

    Trump’s inauguration day: a who’s who from Biden to Musk – in pictures

  • Donald Trump

    The return of President Trump – Politics Weekly Westminster

    • A colourful lantern display

      Colourful lanterns and daredevil motorcyclists: photos of the day – Monday

    • Rockwool Denmark’s Nicolai Sehested in action as his catamaran nearly capsizes in Auckland, New Zealand

      Assad’s narcotics and a troubled catamaran: photos of the weekend

    • 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

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