6 d. ago Anna Wintour's scathing review of Lauren Sanchez's fashion taste revealed

But sometime in between those major milestones, it emerged that Wintour had given a particularly scathing review of the former journalist's own fashion sense.

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7 d. ago Royal train to be decommissioned following review, reveal royal accounts

The Sovereign Grant is funded by the taxpayer in exchange for the King’s surrender of the revenue from the Crown Estate.

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2 w. ago Perfumed With Mint review – poetic Egyptian stoner flick reveals inertia of failed revolution

Debut from Muhammad Hamdy, who won an Emmy for his cinematography, features dramatic chiaroscuros and panning shots to rival AntonioniMuhammad Hamdy’s debut feature is what you might call an Egyptian stoner flick – if Cheech and Chong were a pair of exhausted, poetry-spouting revolutionaries roaming a broken-down necropolis. Hashish is the means of dulling painful memories and, apparently, preventing subcutaneous eruptions of mint, in this distinctive and stubborn-headed post-Arab-Spring reckoning which comes with magic-realist overtones.Bahaa (Alaa El Din Hamada) is a disaffected doctor who, on hearing a woman’s complaint about being unable to stop her dead son manifesting, passes her a joint. Wandering through a set of decrepit apartments in a becalmed nocturnal purgatory, pursued by sprinting shadows and bemoaning his lost love Dalal, it seems he and his friend Mahdy (Mahdy Abo Bahat) have joined the ranks of the ghosts themselves. These ruins are psychological as much as anythin...

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2 w. ago Scottish Government backs review of sarcoma treatment after new report reveals stark inequalities in care

A major new study has revealed that hundreds of Scottish sarcoma patients are waiting six months or longer for diagnosis of the rare and often deadly disease due to 'systematic failings' in care.

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2 w. ago Failure to collect ethnicity data on grooming gangs has been a ‘bloody disaster’, Baroness Casey fumes

The author of a damning report also hit out at Tory leader Kemi Badenoch, saying she was ‘disappointed’ by the Conservatives’ response to her review of the scandal

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2 w. ago Children in London being sexually and criminally exploited, Casey review reveals

Children in London being sexually and criminally exploited, Casey review reveals  London Evening Standard

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3 w. ago Police to collect ethnicity data for all cases of child sexual abuse

Requirement made as review finds ‘over-representation’ of Asian men among grooming gang suspectsYvette Cooper has condemned damning failures by the authorities to protect children from grooming gangs as she announced there would be a formal requirement on police for the first time to collect ethnicity and nationality data for all cases of child sexual abuse and exploitation.The home secretary confirmed the government would accept all 12 recommendations of Louise Casey’s rapid review, including setting up a statutory inquiry into institutional failures, marking a significant reversal after months of pressure on Labour to act. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Grooming gangs: Children in London being sexually and criminally exploited, damning Casey review reveals

Baroness Casey found ‘deep-rooted failures’ to protect children from rape, exploitation, and violence, with continued fragmentation in the authorities' response

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3 w. ago SUE REID: I uncovered the grooming gangs scandal 15 years ago

At last Sir Keir Starmer has announced a national inquiry into the mass-rape gangs prowling the streets of our towns and cities to target young girls for sex. And not before time.

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3 w. ago The Spending Review: the property announcements in spending plans revealed

All the housing announcements from the Government’s Spending Review

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3 w. ago Rachel Reeves seized her moment – whatever the future brings, Labour’s economic course is now set | Martin Kettle

The chancellor is no mere technocrat: her spending review revealed a visceral commitment to social and economic mobilityThe consensus has long been that the 2025 spending review would be a defining moment for Keir Starmer’s government. For once, the consensus proved spot-on. The government’s main priorities were set out on Wednesday in a blizzard of Commons announcements from Rachel Reeves, some economically substantive, others more for show. The upshot is that the shape of the British state, as Labour intends it, is now decided until the eve of the next election.There are further crossroads still to come, some of them major, as the years covered by the review unroll. Taxes are likely to rise, probably as soon as the autumn budget, to pay for Reeves’s big ticket boosts on Wednesday for defence, health and housing. Council tax could rise too, with possibly dramatic results. The review’s emphasis on capital spending means current spending could be squeezed again, perhaps heralding pay...

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3 w. ago The Spending Review: the property announcements in spending plans revealed today

All the housing announcements from the Government’s Spending Review

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3 w. ago Spending review live: Reeves to reveal how she’ll spend Britain’s cash to make working people ‘better off’

Chancellor is set to unveil plans for all department funding today

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3 w. ago Londoners net Treasury £5,000 per head, new report reveals as Reeves and Khan in Spending Review clash

Analysis by the House of Commons Library lays bare how dependent the UK is on the capital as its economic engine

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3 w. ago Londoners are netting Treasury £5,000 per head, new report reveals ahead of Rachel Reeves Spending Review

Analysis by the House of Commons Library lays bare how dependent the UK is on the capital as its economic engine

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4 w. ago Voices: The spending review will reveal how far the government has been blown off course

In her last-man-standing battle with the Treasury, Yvette Cooper has shone a light on how Starmer’s administration is now quietly tacking to the left, says Sean O’Grady

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