Against the backdrop of the cost-of-living crisis, data highlights a worrying trend: CEO salary increases outstripping those of the wider workforce.

Reform UK leader launches tirade against broadcaster in latest effort to address claims of abuse from school contemporaries * UK politics live – latest updates Nigel Farage has denied saying anything racist “with malice” in his latest attempt to address allegations of abuse made by numerous of his contemporaries at school. The Reform leader declined to call his accusers liars, but lost his cool as he turned his fire on the BBC for questioning him about alleged antisemitic comments. Continue reading...

Reform leader claims he has had letters of support over racism allegations, but that those letters also described some of his comments as offensive

THE ban on protests against Palestine Action’s proscription have proven “unenforceable,” campaigners argued today, after several police forces chose not to arrest peaceful sign-holders over the weeken...

Britain is in a mess. Growth is weak and the recent budget ducked the reforms needed to lift it. Britons, fed up with immigration, a lack of housing and decades of stagnant wages, tell pollsters that they intend to abandon the political mainstream. Is Sir Keir Starmer’s government mostly to blame? Or is centrism itself running out of road? Zanny Minton Beddoes, our editor-in-chief, Edward Carr, deputy editor, and a panel of our journalists consider the scale of Britain’s problems and ask whether the country’s politics is a cautionary tale for centrists everywhere.  

Right to trial by jury seen as a touchstone of the British justice system, but severe court backlogs may prompt change.

No. We estimate that emigration is lower now than it was five years ago

Organisers meet in Switzerland to decide if Israel can participate in the 2026 competition amid mounting protests and claims of vote interference

Decision not to hold vote on Israel’s participation comes in spite of several broadcasters calling for its exclusion Ireland, Spain and the Netherlands will boycott next year’s Eurovision after Israel was given the all-clear to compete in next year’s song contest in spite of several participating broadcasters calling for its exclusion. At the general assembly of the European Broadcasting Union, the body that organises the hugely popular international annual singing competition, no vote on Israel’s participation was held. Continue reading...

Farage repeatedly shouts ‘Bernard Manning’ at journalists amid racism allegations

Bold modernisation of the criminal courts to put victims first and restore public confidence in the system

The contest, whose 70th edition is scheduled for Vienna in May, pits acts from dozens of nations against one another for the continent's musical crown.

About two dozen contemporaries of the Reform UK leader at Dulwich College have spoken to the Guardian about his offensive behaviour

Judges hear secret evidence as lawyers and public for Palestine-Action co-founder told to leave court during closed session

You could call it an act of friendship, except Nige sees Dicky less as a friend and more as a useful idiot

The Reform leader recently used media interviews to back Christopher Harborne's company while promising to cut taxes and regulations on crypto firms

From income to home ownership and public services, everybody is disgruntled – but for different reasons, says economist Jonathan Swarbrick

Donald Trump’s approach to peacemaking ignores crucial lessons from history