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In 1995, Nick Leeson, a 28-year-old trader for Barings Bank, brought down the City’s oldest finance house by, among other things, betting that the Bank of…

Disadvantaged primary school pupils at the government’s first wave of new breakfast clubs can expect to be trained in toothbrushing, as well as fed. Data showing…

The decision by Nottinghamshire council’s Reform UK leader, Mick Barton, to ban his councillors from speaking to the Nottingham Post is as absurd as it is troubling.…

The political conversation is becoming ever more focused on migration, with Reform UK leader Nigel Farage determined to make small boat crossings and asylum seekers the…

Once, it seemed that much of the world was intent on drastically cutting back on meat for health and environmental reasons. Vegetarian and vegan options appeared…

“People gone; buildings empty: this is the fact of daily life in the countryside,” lamented the author Liang Hong in her bestselling account China in One…

To an outside eye, English cities might seem deliberately designed to foment a housing crisis. Unconstrained by craggy topography or fortified ramparts, their Victorian developers built…

EPA-EFE/Rex/ShutterstockNoel Clarke pictured outside the High Court in London in MarchActor Noel Clarke has lost his libel case against the Guardian, after he sued the newspaper’s…

The traditional test of effectiveness in a leader of the opposition is whether the holder of that office looks like a prime minister in waiting. It…

The verdict on Donald Trump’s meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other European leaders on Monday depends entirely upon the metric used. The great fear was that this might…