One Battle After Another, Paul Thomas Anderson’s counterculture comedy, has dominated the Baftas, taking home six awards including best film and best director.

Nigel Farage has been accused of “performing Maga stunts” after claiming the British government stopped him from travelling to the Chagos Islands on a humanitarian mission.

Reform UK would create an ICE-style agency dedicated to deporting hundreds of thousands of people, as well as terminating the status of those with indefinite leave to remain (ILR), the party will announce.

Scotland Yard is using AI tools supplied by the US tech company Palantir to monitor staff behaviour in an attempt to root out failing officers.

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What $70 million in taxpayer money buys: a private luxury jet for Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski to jet-set around on. And we’re supposed to believe it’s used for deporting undocumented immigrants.

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The U.K.’s Thames Valley Police said the arrest was carried out on suspicion of “misconduct in public office,” just weeks after the latest batch of Epstein files were released.

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In a trial in LA Mark Zuckerberg took the stand to defend against claims that Instagram was engineered like a ‘digital casino’ to hook kids. Emails showed Zuck personally overruled child-safety and mental-health experts, the verdict could set the tone for thousands of similar lawsuits.

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Children in England with special needs will receive individual support and therapy directly from their schools as part of the government’s overhaul of England’s special education provision.

A British couple have been sentenced to 10 years in jail by an Iranian court on charges of espionage – an outcome foreign secretary Yvette Cooper called “completely appalling and totally unjustifiable”.

Almost 60 Palestinian journalists detained in Israeli prisons since the 7 October 2023 Hamas attack have been beaten, starved and subjected to sexual violence, including rape, a report by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) alleges.

Donald Trump changed his mind on supporting the Chagos Islands deal because the UK will not permit its airbases to be used for a pre-emptive US strike on Iran, the Guardian has been told.

Keir Starmer has appointed Antonia Romeo as cabinet secretary, the UK’s most senior civil servant, the first woman to hold the post in its 110-year history.

King Charles says “the law must take its course” after the arrest this morning of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. The former prince turns 66 today, is in custody for questioning as police assess allegations that he forwarded confidential material to Jeffrey Epstein while he was a trade envoy for the UK.

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Ministers are considering a slower rise in the minimum wage for younger workers, amid fears over rising youth unemployment.

Donald Trump has urged Keir Starmer not to hand the Chagos Islands over to Mauritius, warning he was “making a big mistake”.

Labour figures in the county with the highest number of reinstated council elections, after the government’s recent U-turn, have said they fear the party will be “annihilated” when voters go to the polls in May.

More than 75,000 people were killed in the first 16 months of the two-year war in Gaza, at least 25,000 more than the death toll announced by local authorities at the time, according to a study published in the Lancet medical journal.

Deepfake nudes and “revenge porn” must be removed from the internet within 48 hours or technology firms risk being blocked in the UK, Keir Starmer has said.

London’s pedicab drivers will be banned from blaring out music and ripping off tourists under a clampdown by Transport for London. The rickshaw riders will need a licence to operate, and prices will be capped at £5 for the base fare and £1 per minute after that.

UK inflation fell sharply to 3% in January, its lowest level in almost a year, further boosting hopes of an interest rate cut next month. The drop, from December’s 3.4% figure, was driven by slowing price rises in airfares, petrol and food.

Medics in the UK and US believe they have been denied re-entry to Gaza after speaking out on the ongoing conflict.

Nigel Farage has unveiled the first part of Reform UK’s frontbench team, saying it shows that the party is no longer reliant entirely on him – while also warning that he will not tolerate any dissent from his colleagues.

British police have expanded their interest in the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s links to Britain, by admitting for the first time they are looking at claims he used dozens of private flights into UK airports to traffic women.

Child sexual abuse in the UK is soaring, police have said, with 1,000 paedophile suspects being arrested each month and the number of children being rescued from harm rising by 50% in the last five years.

One in nine new homes in England built between 2022 and 2024 were constructed in areas that could now be at risk of flooding, according to new data.

Robert Duvall, the veteran actor who had a string of roles in classic American films including Apocalypse Now, The Godfather, M*A*S*H and To Kill a Mockingbird, has died aged 95.

Six companies linked to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, are being wound down in the wake of revelations about her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.

Keir Starmer has pledged action on young people’s access to social media in “months, not years”, while saying this did not necessarily mean a complete ban on access for under-16s.

UK bank bosses will hold their first meeting to establish a national alternative to Visa and Mastercard, amid growing fears over Donald Trump’s ability to turn off US-owned payment systems.

Ministers have dropped controversial plans to delay 30 local elections this May after receiving legal advice that doing so might not be lawful.

The UK’s top prosecutor has said “nobody is above the law” amid growing pressure on police to fully investigate Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s links with Jeffrey Epstein.

Britain and Germany’s highest ranking military leaders have made an unprecedented joint appeal to the public to accept the “moral” case for rearmament and prepare for the threat of war with Russia.