A tiny department is playing a defining role in the Labour government

Manchester United is used to success. But it is languishing in the league and saddled with debt

Weighed down by £6.6bn of arrears, English local authorities have turned to debt agencies – with some shocking results

One of Britain’s biggest trade unions has built a hotel in Birmingham at vast cost. Following the threads which explain why it became so wildly expensive leads inevitably to a surprising place: to Liverpool. And to questions which could hurt the Labour party.

A new feature that allows users to see where accounts are located seems like a positive step, but this so-called transparency comes with major drawbacks

Limiting global warming to 1.5C becomes unlikelier by the day

It still might not stop Reform

Holyrood wants more community ownership of rural land – but it’s an uphill struggle

A misleading BBC edit of a Donald Trump speech has snowballed into a crisis

The campaigner got her parking fine rescinded. Now she wants the city to revoke thousands more

The prime minister has resigned in the middle of escalating protests

They may also drive lower-income groups to the black market

There is little expectation that December’s vote will be free or fair

Platform directly employs just 46 people, helping it achieve a better operating margin than Alphabet, Microsoft or Meta

An asylum hotel ban may not be replicated elsewhere. It’s still bad news

JD Vance’s trip to the UK makes this a summer of transatlantic soft power

The ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina is being tried in absentia as she refuses to leave India. She is in other trouble too

Union anger after claims its former boss took free trip to watch Liverpool in Madrid

The president’s return to his maternal homeland has triggered the country’s biggest security operation since the death of the Queen

An internal report claims building firm behind trade union’s disastrous hotel project provided a private jet to take Len McCluskey to the Champions League final

The US president’s closest aides loved to blame the Biden team for covering the sex offender’s tracks. Yet in power, they now call the client list a hoax. The trouble is the Maga movement is not buying it

A team on a restored Dutch tall ship have followed in the footsteps of the great naturalist, 200 years after his original expedition