17 h. ago Voices: ‘She screamed in his face’: Readers share shocking examples of toxic bosses amid sick leave row

Our community say Britain’s workplace sickness crisis is driven not by ‘attitude’ but by toxic bosses, poor management, low pay and relentless pressure

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29 h. ago Moment knifeman who killed Porsche driver in 'Wild West' attack is tackled by police

Awad Abdel Samad, 24, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 27 years for murder on Thursday

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58 h. ago Man who stabbed Porsche driver to death in 'Wild West' attack on Edgware Road jailed for life

Awad Abdel Samad, 24, killed Mohamed Abdi, 19, during an outbreak of violence near Edgware Road station

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58 h. ago Man jailed for murder over 'Wild West' knife fight in London

Man jailed for murder over 'Wild West' knife fight in London  BBC

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60 h. ago Porsche driver killed in 'Wild West' scenes as ruthless attacker jailed for life

Awad Abdel Samad, 24, insisted he was acting in self-defence when he took the life of Mohamed Abdi, 21, during a violent confrontation on London's Edgware Road last year

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63 h. ago Immigration courts backlog DOUBLES since Labour came to power, topping 121,000 cases

HM Courts and Tribunal Service published new data showing there are 121,010 applications awaiting a hearing in the immigration and asylum tribunal.

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4 d. ago Men bear brunt of jobs bloodbath as number out of work tops one million for first time in a decade

Official figures showed the jobless rate among men climbed to 5.4 per cent in the three months to September, up from 4.2 per cent when Labour came to power last summer.

Economics

5 d. ago Jail with 42 staff recruited from overseas would be left in crisis under new visa rules, warns prisons boss

THE Chief Inspector of prisons has warned that a jail with 42 staff recruited from overseas would be left in crisis if the new visa restrictions are not reversed. Britain’s prisons are facing a staffing shortage as visa rules threaten to force a wave of foreign recruits to return home. There has been a surge...

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7 d. ago Record numbers of shoplifters are being jailed as UK fights back against crime 'epidemic'

EXCLUSIVE: While Britain continues to be hit hard by the cost of living crisis, more and more people are resorting to shoplifting, resulting in more offenders being jailed

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8 d. ago Dark truth behind world’s ‘tantric capital’ where Brit hippies chase sexual nirvana & male gurus ‘lure students to bed’

WITH alluring promises of ‘showers of love’ and classes on how to ‘surrender in bed’, it is the sun-soaked holiday hotspot beloved by hippy Brits seeking sexual nirvana. But beneath the surface, horrified insiders warn how this destination for ‘sacred eroticism’ has become a ‘Wild West’ for corruption and sexual abuse at the hands of...

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9 d. ago Unesco adopts global standards on ‘wild west’ field of neurotechnology

UN body’s recommendations driven by AI advances and proliferation of consumer-oriented neurotech devicesIt is the latest move in a growing international effort to put guardrails around a burgeoning frontier – technologies that harness data from the brain and nervous system.Unesco has adopted a set of global standards on the ethics of neurotechnology, a field that has been described as “a bit of a wild west”. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Inside David Beckham's raucous knighthood afterparty at Gordon Ramsay's west London restaurant

Sir David’s rarely-seen nieces and nephews as well as his children shared glimpses from the wild night in west London

Society

1 week ago Pubgoer smashes stranger with bubble gum machine in Wild West

Luke Williams, 30, left his victim with 'horrific' injuries after the attack at The New Glynne Arms in Broughton, North Wales which 'came from nowhere', a court was told

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1 week ago Sicknote Britain is costing more than £200bn a year as the country slides into an 'avoidable crisis'

A new report by former John Lewis boss Sir Charlie Mayfield lays bare the impact of the growing problem on taxpayers, the NHS and the wider economy.

Economics

1 week ago Britain's child obesity crisis laid bare: One in three kids in parts of the UK now overweight or obese BEFORE they start primary school

Some 30 per cent of six-year-olds in County Durham were classed under the category, double the level logged in Wiltshire.

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2 w. ago Dog's intestines 'pushed back into place' after 'savage attack' on family walk

Taxi driver Iain Robson received a call from his wife about the incident which led to extremely hefty vet bills that topped £5,000 on credit cards.

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2 w. ago Andrew's royal exit is the latest crisis for Britain's monarchy

Britain’s monarchy holds prestige but not power and is subject to public sentiment

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2 w. ago Cost of iconic British meal set to soar after Russian fisheries slapped with sanctions

Britain’s iconic fish and chips dish faces a fresh crisis as soaring cod prices, driven by tough new UK sanctions on Russian fishing giants, threaten to put the nation’s favourite comfort meal out of reach for many families

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2 w. ago Want to know what’s really up with Britain? Take a look at our no

Talk of ‘small boats’ may dominate politics and the media, but the cost of living crisis is what most adults spend their time worrying about Wage increases finally began to outpace price rises in June 2023, so we could technically class the previous month as the height of the cost of living crisis. Certainly, May that year was when the headlines about butter peaked. Lurpak and Anchor, both owned by the same dairy co-op, Arla, had reduced the size of their standard butter pack from 250g to 200g. The price was brought down accordingly, in due course, but for a while, certain supermarkets were still charging half-pound prices for a “what would we even call 200g?” pack.The problem was, butter units are universal. A half-pound of butter always weighs the same amount in your hand, regardless of the brand. Seeing the small version in a supermarket felt almost sci-fi, like a tiny off-key detail that alerts you to the fact you’ve been kidnapped by aliens into a simulacrum world. They would h...

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2 w. ago Line of Beauty at Almeida Theatre: 'Hugely entertaining skim across shiny 80s Britain'

This adaptation of Alan Hollinghurst’s novel looks at Thatcherism, the AIDS crisis and class in 80s Britain in satirical fashion

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