The former top civil servant at the Department for International Development has warned a lack of oversight in spending echoes corrupt contracts awarded during CovidThe billions of pounds spent on housing asylum seekers is ripe...
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Read MoreThe British academic offers a devastating diagnosis of the forces that have shaped female healthcare worldwide, along with a powerful prescription for change to remedy the failings, inequalities and injusticesThe new Labour...
Read MoreWatercolour drawing for first book’s cover becomes most expensive item from the series ever sold at auctionA watercolour drawing for Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone has fetched a record amount at auction.The...
Read MoreThe prolific actor appeared in more than 190 films and TV shows and was a vocal anti-war activistDonald Sutherland: a life in picturesDonald Sutherland, whose acting career spanned six decades and included starring in such...
Read MoreIn first interview since his stabbing, writer tells how knifeman was ‘last thing my right eye would ever see’ Salman Rushdie has said that his first thought upon seeing the man who would stab him on stage in August...
Read MoreEx-prime minister, who lasted just 49 days, says she struggled to cope with death of monarch and self-inflicted economic disasterIn a new memoir, Liz Truss recounts the advice she was given by Queen Elizabeth II when they met in...
Read MoreThe Return of the Buffalo Herd, by teenage prodigies Edward and Charles Detmold, can be seen at Bateman’s after conservationA rare watercolour depicting the aftermath of a climactic moment in Rudyard Kipling’s The...
Read MoreThe ‘industrial scale of death’ on the Covid frontline left Clarke and her colleagues traumatised and underpaid while the powerful partied and profited. Now, her pandemic memoir is coming to TV with the help of Jed...
Read MoreParty historian MP Jon Cruddas questions readiness for power of leader with few ties to movement’s roots or ideology A Labour intellectual says Keir Starmer appears to lack a clear sense of purpose due to his detachment...
Read MoreFormer Waterstones boss Tim Coates among those to criticise government, Arts Council and British Library bid to create a ‘single digital presence’ for librariesThe UK’s beleaguered public libraries have been...
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