2 h. ago ANDREW NEIL: Weak Rachel Reeves' serial gaslighting of the British people is now clear for all to see. She is on her last legs... and Starmer will not be far behind

'Of course I didn't lie,' claimed Rachel Reeves on Sky News yesterday morning, though the Chancellor had to be pushed three times to say it. But how can we be sure that itself is not a lie?

Politics

45 h. ago AD FEATURE: Yorklea marks 35th anniversary and pays tribute to beloved manager

The Manchester care home reflects on its roots, its people, and the legacy shaping its future

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49 h. ago ANDREW NEIL: Starmer's shape shifting has left Britain with a government we didn't vote for. A reckoning is coming

To break one manifesto promise may be regarded as unfortunate. To break two in one week is not so much careless - as Oscar Wilde would have it - as par for the course.

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3 d. ago ANDREW NEIL: It accidentally leaked the Budget and gets its forecasts wildly wrong. Yet George Osborne's unelected quango has more power over Chancellors than ever

The premature publication of the Budget by the Office for Budget Responsibility was just about the only reason for a chuckle in what was a pretty grim day for the country and the economy.

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3 d. ago ANDREW NEIL: This is a watershed moment in our economic history that will consign Britain to a Lost Decade

In the end it was the old-fashioned Labour tax-and-spend Budget. But it was even worse marked a new era for Britain in which taxes and public spending remain permanently elevated.

Economics

4 d. ago The bird people of Lake Manchar: surviving in a vanishing oasis

The Mohana of Pakistan’s Sindh province once thrived on the lake but pollution and drought have caused the fragile ecosystem to collapse, along with their way of lifeAt the mouth of Lake Manchar, gentle lapping disturbs the silence. A small boat cuts through the water, propelled by a bamboo pole scraping the muddy bottom of the canal.Bashir Ahmed manoeuvres his frail craft with agility. His slender boat is more than just a means of transport. It is the legacy of a people who live to the rhythm of water: the Mohana. They have lived for generations on the waters of Lake Manchar in Sindh province, a vast freshwater mirror covering nearly 250 sq km. The lake, once the largest in Pakistan, was long an oasis of life. Now, it is dying.Bashir Ahmed in his boat on the lake, next to simple huts built on top of the right bank outfall drain Continue reading...

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5 d. ago US justice department memo about boat strikes diverges from Trump narrative

Exclusive: Officials frame strikes as self-defense against violence, without naming aggressor, while Trump claims they’re to stop US overdose deathsThe Trump administration is framing its boat strikes against drug cartels in the Caribbean in part as a collective self-defense effort on behalf of US allies in the region, according to three people directly familiar with the administration’s internal legal argument.The legal analysis rests on a premise – for which there is no immediate public evidence – that the cartels are waging armed violence against the security forces of allies like Mexico, and that the violence is financed by cocaine shipments. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Reeves pledges to ‘grip cost of living’ in Budget as tax hikes expected

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is grappling with weak economic growth, persistent inflation and an expected downgrade to official productivity forecasts.

Economics

9 d. ago ANDREW NEIL: No amount of arm twisting will stem the tide of licence fee refuseniks

Instead of shining a light through the fog of digital distortion which blights all our efforts to learn the truth, BBC News has become part of the problem, not the solution, writes ANDREW NEIL.

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9 d. ago Hong Kong charges four over online posts urging boycott of ‘patriots

Three men and a woman accused of provoking hatred against city’s government and inciting people to not vote in next month’s legislative council election

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1 week ago Why the Anthony Joshua vs Jake Paul charade is actually a GREAT thing for boxing

The controversial contest in Miami next month has split opinion in the sporting world with some people believing Britain's ex-world heavyweight champion is ruining his legacy

Sport

1 week ago A senior White House official has told me the REAL threat to Trump. Epstein is a humiliating distraction. But he's losing grip fast... this could be fatal: ANDREW NEIL

The manner in which Donald Trump was forced, in the end, to agree this week to the publication of the Epstein files should worry the President far more than anything that might be in them.

Events

1 week ago Cloudflare down LIVE as websites including Twitter not working

According to Downdetector.co.uk there have been a spike in reports of people struggling to access websites including X (formerly Twitter), League of Legends, OpenAi and Facebook

Politics

1 week ago New DWP update for people on legacy benefits ahead of payments ending in April

Legacy benefits including Income Support and Income-based Jobseekers’ Allowance are set to close at the start of April 2026.

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2 w. ago His research on autism was compassionate – how could Hans Asperger have collaborated with the Nazis?

The Vienna-based ‘father of neurodiversity’ was ahead of his time in his work but was also implicated in the Third Reich’s crimes. My novel set out to explore these contradictionsIn 2015, I decided to write a novel about Dr Hans Asperger, who worked at the University Children’s Hospital in Vienna during the second world war. My interest was sparked by two nonfiction books: NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People Who Think Differently by Steve Silberman and In a Different Key: The Story of Autism by John Donvan and Caren Zucker.Reading these stories told about Asperger, you would have thought they were talking about two different people. To Silberman, Asperger was a compassionate and original thinker, whereas Donvan and Zucker depict him as an enthusiastic supporter of Hitler. For a historical novelist, widely differing accounts of the same person are gold dust, and I began to dig deeper. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago ANDREW NEIL: The Chancellor looks haunted, distraught, even helpless. This is why I now believe there's every chance of a financial crisis

There is an increasingly haunted, distraught, even helpless look about her. She must know her second Budget is likely to be her last.

Events

2 w. ago AD FEATURE: ‘We don’t like to waste energy,’ – how one Port Talbot couple are using their smart meter to save money

Neil Jones and partner Andrew have found they can save by tracking their gas and electricity consumption

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3 w. ago Strictly legend swipes at BBC judging panel and digs 'people should get over it'

EXCLUSIVE: Strictly legend Arlene Phillips takes aim at the BBC judging panel, saying some scores are random and urging fans to "get over it" as the competition heats up

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3 w. ago Labour bosses know ditching Starmer won't save them, but their despair at the PM means they want him gone anyway. And the end could come soon: ANDREW NEIL

It's over for Keir Starmer. Don't take my word for it. Don't even be guided by the polls, which couldn't be more dire for him or his party. Just speak to his own MPs.

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3 w. ago Welsh farmers 'being invaded' by pylon plans take company to court

More than 300 people have launched High Court legal action against a green energy company planning to build the infrastructure across Wales

Events