9 m. ago Labour revolt on tough borders: Mahmood plans to strip assets from Channel boat migrants and make them wait 20 years for settlement

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is unveiling what she has promised will be the biggest overhaul for decades, admitting that uncontrolled immigration is dividing the nation.

Events

14 m. ago HMRC to pay £1,200 to Universal Credit claimants with 7.5m eligible

The government scheme is backed by money-saving expert Martin Lewis, who has encouraged people to take part in the risk-free savings program

Economics

34 m. ago Two Strictly 2025 stars plot new TV show together after forging close bond

The pair were close before they both appeared on Strictly this year - now they're even closer

Culture

48 m. ago Trump turns on one of his most fervent supporters in row over Epstein files: Marjorie Taylor Greene says her life is in danger after president called her a 'ranting lunatic traitor'

Trump has publicly broken with Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene over her push to unseal documents that some believe could link him to Jeffrey Epstein's crimes.

Politics

72 m. ago Budget 2025: Reeves set to drop tax hikes in favour of threshold freezes

Millions may face higher bills as frozen tax bands quietly push more income into taxation 💸

Economics

97 m. ago Borderline Fiction by Derek Owusu review – life with borderline personality disorder

A student navigates troubled relationships at age 19 and 25, as he comes to terms with mental health difficulties“The best way to make sense of life,” Derek Owusu believes, “is to write about it.” His semi-autobiographical debut, That Reminds Me, was an attempt to understand how he came to be diagnosed with borderline personality disorder: a condition marked, among other things, by intense emotions, self-destructive impulses, fear of abandonment, black-and-white thinking, and an unstable sense of self. The novel, written in an elliptical and densely poetic style, offered an illuminating, if harrowing, account of alienation, addiction and self-harm, through the story of K, an alter ego whose early childhood, like Owusu’s, was spent in foster care. It won Owusu the Desmond Elliott prize in 2020, and announced him as an idiosyncratic talent; in 2023, he was named one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists.Owusu now turns again to the subject of BPD, this t...

Politics

2 h. ago Small businesses start with less than £6k and a third fail to break even for years

Many small business owners had to pull in money from personal savings, family loans and credit cards when they tried to get their companies off the ground, research found

Economics

2 h. ago Nostradamus' chilling end of year prediction as 2025 finishes with 'catastrophe'

As 2025 concludes, panic settles in as one the "most famous" predictions about humanity's demise could become a reality.

Politics

2 h. ago Weather phenomenon that caused 'Beast from the East' 'could return' in Scotland

The so-called Beast from the East sent temperatures across the country plummeting in February 2018, with several areas seeing as much as 20 inches of snow settle on the ground.

Politics

4 h. ago OJ Simpson's estate has agreed to settle with Fred Goldman for nearly £61 million

OJ Simpson’s estate has agreed to pay Fred Goldman a payout of up to £61 million in the long-unresolved wrongful death case tied to the 1994 killing of Ron Goldman

Economics

5 h. ago Swiss investors push for UBS to settle over Credit Suisse bond write

A surprise court ruling that the move lacked a legal basis could lead to years of appeals and proceedings

Economics

9 h. ago Rosamund Pike reveals she thought she accidentally waxed Pierce Brosnan's chest during racy Die Another Day sex scene

The actress, 46, revealed she panicked she had accidentally waxed Pierce Brosnan 's chest while filming their sex scene in James Bond 's Die Another Day.

Events

13 h. ago Trump’s investigation into Epstein ties to political foes might be ‘smokescreen’, Republican says

Thomas Massie says move could be Trump’s ‘last-ditch effort’ to keep Epstein files from becoming publicRepublican congressman Thomas Massie challenged Donald Trump on Sunday over whether the US president is making a “last-ditch effort” to keep the full files on the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein from becoming public by ordering a fresh investigation.Massie and Democratic congressman Ro Khanna, the two US representatives leading the bipartisan push to make all the files held by the government public both raised fresh concerns about the latest actions by the White House. Continue reading...

Politics

14 h. ago Inside Aitch's unbreakable bond with his sister Gracie as he arrives in I'm A Celebrity jungle

Aitch has publicly announced that one of the major reasons he is participating in I'm A Celebrity is so that he can raise awareness of Down's Syndrome for his sister Gracie

Politics

14 h. ago I'm A Celebrity star Aitch's close bond with sister Gracie and being a 'stereotypical Manchester kid'

"I’ve made songs with most people I grew up listening to, now I’m going on the show I grew up watching"

Politics

16 h. ago Gary Numan, 67, breaks down on stage during setlist after receiving the 'worst news' as his wife Gemma rushes to comfort him

The singer, 67, was performing Please Push No More at the O2 Academy Birmingham when he broke down on stage.

Politics

17 h. ago Florian Wirtz blame game settled in brutal Liverpool accusation after Gary Neville claim

Germany midfielder Florian Wirtz has endured a difficult start to life at Liverpool following his big-money move from Bayer Leverkusen in the summer transfer window

Politics

18 h. ago Nearly 1.3m foreign nationals are now getting Universal Credit as Tories demand cuts to handouts instead of tax hikes

The latest government data show that 1,270,107 people who were not UK or Irish nationals were receiving the main jobless handouts as of last month.

Politics

19 h. ago Putin's new 'super weapons' that could obliterate the West in seconds: How Kremlin can trigger Armageddon at the flick of a switch with 'Flying Chernobyl', tsunami torpedo and space nuke

Deep inside Russia 's military machine, the tyrant is quietly assembling an arsenal designed not to win a war in Europe, but to decimate whole nations at the push of a button.

Politics

20 h. ago Labour plan to overhaul UK asylum system 'will push more families into destitution', warns SNP

Glasgow has become a magnet for former asylum seekers looking for emergency housing due to more liberal laws in Scotland.

Events