25 h. ago Next manuscript by Amitav Ghosh to be kept sealed for 89 years

The Indian author is the next Future Library writer, set to submit a secret work to be locked in a library until 2114The next manuscript by Indian writer Amitav Ghosh will not be read for 89 years, as he becomes the 12th author to contribute to the Future Library project.Ghosh joins Margaret Atwood, Han Kang, Ocean Vuong and other prominent authors who have written secret manuscripts, which are locked away until 2114. Continue reading...

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33 h. ago Leeds Festival: 15 acts who we still think could perform a secret set at this year's event

Let the speculation continue as Leeds Festival is a mere fortnight away.

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55 h. ago Creamfields 2025: Who could perform a secret set at this year’s festival

Who are the leading contenders who could occupy the 9:30pm slot on Creamfields Saturday?

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3 w. ago EastEnders' Oscar drops new Max Branning bombshell as a huge secret is revealed

EastEnders newcomer Oscar Branning is set to learn a family secret in next week's episodes

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3 w. ago Grant Shapps ‘surprised’ Afghan data leak kept secret for so long – despite fighting to keep media gagged

The ex-defence secretary says he was ‘surprised’ gagging order was in place for ‘so long’ - despite fighting himself to maintain it

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3 w. ago Grant Shapps defends Afghan data leak superinjunction that gagged media for two years

The ex-defence secretary said the pubilc understands ‘there are things that the state just has to do secretly’

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4 w. ago Healey: Accountability starts now over Afghan data leak and injunction

Thousands of people have been relocated to the UK as part of a secret scheme set up after data on Afghans who supported British forces was leaked.

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last month Former defence secretary makes ‘no apology’ for Afghan injunction

Thousands of people are being relocated to the UK as part of a secret £850 million scheme set up in the wake of the breach.

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last month Afghan nationals: have you arrived in the UK under the Afghanistan Response Route?

We would like to hear from Afghans who have arrived or are due to arrive in the UK under the Afghanistan Response RouteThousands of Afghans have been relocated to the UK under a secret government scheme following a data leak.Personal information about more than 33,000 Afghans seeking relocation to the UK after the Taliban takeover was released in error by a defence official. Fears that the individuals named would be at risk from reprisals from the Taliban led the last government to set up a secret relocation scheme, the Afghanistan Response Route (ARR), involving 20,000 people. Continue reading...

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last month Carla Connor's secret 'exposed' in Coronation Street after surprise discovery

Coronation Street's Carla Connor is set to have a new secret next week, with viewers taking to social media to share their theories as to what she could be hiding

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last month Thousands offered UK asylum in secret scheme after personal data of Afghans who helped British forces leaked by mistake – live

Dataset containing details of thousands of Afghans who applied for relocation to UK released ‘in error’ in 2022Helen Miller is taking over as director of the Insitute for Fiscal Studies thinktank this week, taking over from Paul Johnson, who established himself as the nation’s leading budget commentator.Budget commentary tends to focus on the Treasury’s fiscal rules, on how much “headroom” is available to Rachel Reeves (spare cash in the budget – based on spending plans and anticipated tax revenue, based on the OBR’s growth assumptions), and whether tax or spending plans need to change because the OBR’s forecasts have shifted.Labour came to office with the promise of a ‘mission-driven’ government – a commitment to long-term thinking and systemic reform. The ambition that we should be ‘raising our sights as a nation’ and finding ways to tackle the big challenges we face is the right one.Despite this, we continue to limp from fiscal event to fiscal event, obsessed with whether run of ...

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last month UK set up secret Afghan immigration scheme after data leak and gagged media

‘Super-injunction’ lifted two years after 25,000 were placed at risk of Taliban reprisals

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last month UK set up secret Afghan immigration scheme and gagged media after data leak

‘Super-injunction’ lifted two years after 100,000 people were placed at risk of Taliban reprisals

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last month Breach ‘one of many data losses’ connected to relocation scheme, government says

Security lapse has put tens of thousands of Afghans at heightened risk of murder and torture by the Taliban

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last month Massive data leak saw 100,000 Afghans put in danger as thousands brought to UK

A secret £850million scheme was set up after details of those who supported British forces emerged, it can now be reported after an unprecedented superinjunction was lifted

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last month How one of the gravest security lapses in history was kept secret

Successive UK governments gagged the media over a leak that put thousands at risk of Taliban reprisals

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last month Coronation Street confirms Lou Michaelis' future after Mick's escape plan ends in fight for life

It has been no secret that Farrel Hegarty was set to bow out of the ITV soap, just months after making her debut in the role

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