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March 25, 2025

The mountain Labour must climb to fix the welfare state

Alicja Hagopian and David Maddox investigate the figures behind the party’s clampdown on the ballooning benefits bill

8 mins

Is welfare over warfare right in our dangerous world’?

Bill for working-age benefits twice that of defence, analysis reveals, as debate over government spending intensifies

3 mins

Confusion in government over civil service job cuts

There appears to be confusion at the top of government over proposed cuts to the civil service, as a minister has insisted there are no targets for redundancies despite the chancellor saying just one day earlier that 10,000 jobs would be lost.

3 mins

Will Labour really risk a row about free school dinners? f oo ee

Rachel Reeves says she does not recognise” news reports that ministers are considering the future of free school meals for infant pupils in England it is a devolved matter).

3 mins

Decision to shut Heathrow wasn’t difficult’, says CEO

A quarter of a million passengers who were due to fly to, from or via Heathrow on Friday and over the weekend saw their travel plans wrecked.

3 mins

Only 3 per cent of abusers charged after victim suicide

Only 3 per cent of domestic abusers whose victims took their own lives have faced criminal charges in the past four years, figures show.

3 mins

Village overrun by tourists considers ban on coaches

With its picturesque stone buildings, slow-moving river and welcoming pub, the charming village of Bibury is a well-known destination in the Cotswolds.

2 mins

Women live 8 years longer in Chelsea than Blackpool’

Living in the poorest parts of England could cost you almost five years of your life, a report on ageing has revealed.

3 mins

Police question Holocaust survivor for laying flowers at Gaza genocide’ protest

An elderly Holocaust survivor has been questioned by police after he laid flowers at Trafalgar Square during a Gaza protest to commemorate the tens of thousands of Palestinians killed in the Israel-Hamas war.

4 mins

Clear solar cells could make skyscrapers power stations

Researchers have set a new efficiency world record for converting sunlight into electricity using transparent solar cells.

1 min

Russia continues airstrikes during Saudi ceasefire talks

At least 74 people wounded, including 13 children, after a school and hospital are struck in the Ukrainian city of Sumy

3 mins

‘It’s what happens when you drop a bomb on a hospital’

Surgeon Feroze Sidhwa tells Bel Trew about the teenager he operated on who was killed in his bed by an Israeli airstrike

3 mins

Yemen strike plans shared with journalist by mistake

The Trump administration has been accused of a gross breach of security after the editor of The Atlantic was included in a group chat with top officials and cabinet secretaries outlining plans to strike the Houthis in Yemen.

6 mins

What we know as 1,100 held over Turkey mass protests

Tens of thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets in growing protests across Turkey, after the main rival to the country’s president was arrested and charged with corruption in a move that has been widely decried as politically motivated.

5 mins

Denmark opposes planned visit to Greenland by Vance

Usha Vance set to arrive on Thursday for cultural visit’ as her husband vice-president JD Vance’s bellicose quotes resurface

2 mins

Depardieu in court in Paris as sexual assault trial begins

French actor Gerard Depardieu has gone on trial accused of sexually assaulting two women on a film set, as he finds himself at the centre of a case that is seen as a potential watershed for the MeToo movement in France.

3 mins

Excess all areas: the story of rock’s wildest documentary

From drug binges to onstage brawls, 2004’s Dig!’ captured the competing highs and self-sabotaging lows of the Brian Jonestown Massacre and the Dandy Warhols. Its director and participants tell Kevin EG Perry about rock’n’roll revolution

8 mins

Why armchair diagnosis is now all the rage on TikTok

Helen Coffey questions why social media users have become so emboldened to pronounce autism and ADHD in others

4 mins

The Patti Smith classic that merged punk and poetry

With Horses’ turning 50 this year, Fiona Sturges reflects on how Smith overcame the misogyny of the 1970s rock scene and pays tribute to a masterpiece that nearly didn’t get made

7 mins

An emotionally shattering re-examination of Covid

BBC documentary Love and Loss: The Pandemic 5 Years On’ lays bare the political failures and human costs of an unprecedented period in UK history, writes Phil Harrison

3 mins

Morrisons to shut dozens of cafes and stores in shake-up

Morrisons will close 52 cafes and 17 stores as well as dozens of meat and fish counters as it continues a massive overhaul of its store operations under boss Rami Baitieh.

1 min

England made to work but Tuchel secures second win

Thomas Tuchel’s otherwise forgettable second win at least brought some memorable firsts.

3 mins

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