Morgan McSweeney became the Prime Minister's chief of staff in October last year after Sue Gray quit the role.

Politics

Tensions have risen in the fallout from the Southport murders, with No 10 understood to be frustrated the Home Office has shied away from focusing on Islamist violence.

Society

The fortified Royal Mint complex in East London resembled the set of a B-grade horror movie as it was lashed last week by the gusting winds and torrential rain of Storm Herminia.

Economics

The club issued a statement expressing their anger after one of their players was the target of a racist post on social media.

Sport

While the public is now convinced leaving EU was a mistake, the Prime Minister won’t acknowledge it in case it opens the door to Reform in some Labour constituencies

Events

Reliving the chaotic 90 minutes running up to launch of Saturday Night Live in 1975, Jason Reitman’s film delivers infectious energy minus the requisite edgeThe behind-the-scenes drama, the high-stakes potential for disaster, the tussling egos, the promise of cultural impact or risk of ignominy: it’s not surprising that live television holds an enduring fascination for film-makers. For the most part, however, it has been news events and weighty current affairs programmes that get the big screen treatment, in films such as Ron Howard’s Frost/Nixon, George Clooney’s Good Night, and Good Luck, and the excellent forthcoming September 5, by Tim Fehlbaum.Jason Reitman’s latest picture, Saturday Night, argues that comedy can make history too, particularly if, as in the case of the very first edition of Saturday Night Live, the cast are fighting, the green room is awash with cocaine, the studio heads are threatening to pull the plug, and there’s a llama backstage and nobody can remember why...

Culture

Sir Ed Davey said a deal with the EU could strengthen the UK against the risk of American trade tariffs.

Politics

Sir Keir Starmer has been privately urged to boost defence spending to more than 3 per cent of GDP - far outstripping his 2.5 per cent target.

Economics

The former Labour leader and his son reveal how football changed their family, and discuss the pleasure and pain that comes from loving such a voraciously capitalist sportLast Saturday morning, with the biting cold and bright sunshine providing a perfect day for football, Jeremy Corbyn climbed off his bicycle at Tufnell Park playing fields. I joked about a red bike being appropriate for his politics and his beloved Arsenal but Corbyn just smiled and gazed at the teeming pitches.His eldest son, Ben, is a scout for the Arsenal academy and runs the London Football School which coaches around a thousand young footballers. They range in age from three to 18 and there are 42 LFS teams. Continue reading...

Sport

Prime Minister Keir Starmer's legal chief, Lord Richard Hermer KC is said to have helped write a handbook on how Palestinian victims could sue arms dealers in the UK. 

Events

Celtic launch bid for La Liga front man

Economics

Keir Starmer has been accused of making Britain 'the soft touch of Europe' after rolling back border laws designed to make it near impossible for illegal migrants to become UK citizens.

Events

UK officials in the Cabinet Office dubbed 'The Surrender Unit' are also discussing entering the Euro-Mediterranean Free Trade Area, in what Rachel Reeves' hopes will stimulate the economy.

Politics

Kim Kardashian looked ready for court as she arrived on the set of the new legal drama All's Fair in Beverly Hills on Tuesday, January 28.

Events

The Deputy Prime Minister reportedly fought to get the Duke of York removed from the official list of 'counsellors of state' who deputise for Charles if he is abroad or incapacitated.

Politics

The comedian has urged the Labour Government to set a date to finally ban trophy hunting in Britain. Gervais has garnered widespread support from colleagues the likes of Dame Judi Dench, Ozzy Osborne and more

Events

Kemi Badenoch challenged the Prime Minister to meet five ‘tests’ of maintaining UK sovereignty following Brexit.

Politics

Thousands of protestors in support Tommy Robinson have arrived at Westminster. Before setting off, the protestors sang 'Rule, Britannia!' and chanted 'We want Starmer out'.

Events

The Willie Mullins-trained great took the Paddy Power Irish Gold Cup again under Paul Townend. Bookmakers William Hill go 4-6 that he can equal Best Mate in the Cheltenham Festival feature next month

Politics

Thousands of Tommy Robinson supporters have begun marching towards Westminster. Before setting off, the protestors sang 'Rule, Britannia!' and chanted 'We want Starmer out'.

Events

Scotland 31-19 Italy: Scotland were stunned by the Azzurri last year and held off a fightback this time to claim a bonus-point win

Politics

Visitors can forge a winning new identity under Maro Itoje but the experienced Irish remain marginal favouritesEvery Six Nations fixture is a grand occasion but some games are bigger than others. Ireland and England both know how crucial today’s Dublin eliminator will be in terms of establishing early championship momentum. Listening to the upbeat pre-match tone of the visitors’ new captain, Maro Itoje – “I think we have a team that’s ready to write our own stories” – this also feels like a pivotal moment for Steve Borthwick’s whole England project.A lot has already been said and written since last March’s corresponding match when Marcus Smith drilled a last-gasp drop-goal through the sticks amid ecstatic Twickenham scenes reminiscent of Meg Ryan in When Harry Met Sally. England have subsequently played eight Test matches and lost six, beating only Japan twice. The majority of those losses have been tight but close doesn’t win any cigars at the elite level. Continue reading...

Events

The deputy prime minister reportedly contacted Buckingham Palace and senior civil servants in a bid to remove the disgraced Duke of York from a list of royals who could step in for the King

Politics

Social media users have shared their devastated reactions to one of the final performances of two child figure skaters who died in the horrifying Washington DC plane crash.

Events

Keir Starmer should take his cue from Cummings in pursuing his EU ‘reset’ and seek a customs union with the EU. The director of the Vote Leave campaign supported it – among other surprises, writes John Rentoul

Politics

Exclusive: Chief climate adviser calls on Starmer to make ‘strong, confident’ case for green UK that public can buy intoEnsuring that the costs of decarbonisation are shared fairly across society must be a top priority for ministers or they risk losing public support for net zero, the UK’s chief climate adviser has warned.Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves should be making a “strong, confident” case for decarbonisation as an engine of economic growth, according to Emma Pinchbeck, the chief executive of the Climate Change Committee, the independent statutory adviser. Continue reading...

Events

Sutton Trust founder Sir Peter Lampl made the claim as he criticised the Government’s plans to charge VAT on private school fees.

Politics

Four years after Myanmar’s military coup sparked gunfighting, torture, rape and arson in Rakhine state, young Rohingya men are now being forcibly conscripted to fight for both the junta and the rebels. Shweta Sharma reports from Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh

Events

Trump’s pretense as king has quickly devolved into his strutting insult routine. He will always exploit tragedy to display his self-regardOutrages of Donald Trump’s rancid character topple over each other so rapidly and in such volume that they long ago became banal. His vileness is unremarked upon, his rottenness unworthy of further commentary. Trump’s offensiveness is an unspoken assumption. Rules and norms exist for him to break. More, he is rewarded. Meta, after discarding monitoring of hateful content and disinformation on Facebook, is paying him $25m in tribute to settle his lawsuit against it for having banned him after his attempted coup on January 6 and his potential “instances of violence” and threats to “public safety”. All is forgiven, if not forgotten. There are no gates; there are no gatekeepers. Let the bad times roll.But Trump crashed through a new boundary after an army helicopter collided with an airliner about to land at Washington’s Reagan National airport on 29 ...

Politics

Ainsley has become a household name thanks to shows like Ready Steady Cook

Politics

So many pre-election promises: but still a cultural malaise spreads from our schools to museums, galleries and theatresIf a former director of the National Theatre says that “more harm has been done than good” to the arts by the new Labour government, it is safe to say things have got off to a rocky start. It is hard to imagine a slice of British society more sympathetic on principle to Labour than those working in the creative sector. Hopes were high: Keir Starmer made a powerful speech on the arts before the election. The culture secretary, Lisa Nandy, began by doing everyone a service by unilaterally declaring the end of the culture wars – perhaps something not entirely in her gift, though it’s clear she was calling time on the endless spitting and sniping at the “woke” arts favoured by the previous government. And yet: all I hear is disappointment and desperation, and not only from Nicholas Hytner. There is a void where policy and action should be. In a speech in Gateshead in mi...

Politics

This Chinese restaurant has been praised highly by food critic Jay Rayner and it is like stepping out of Swansea into a different world

Politics

Liz Kendall blamed the Conservatives for failing to control welfare spending.

Politics

Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of 'fudging the facts' about attending a state school by Sir Peter Lampl, founder of social mobility charity Sutton Trust, who also attended Reigate Grammar.

Politics