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Collage of doctors and protestors advocating for the NHS.
Doctors’ union: We’ll bring NHS to standstill if Streeting won’t talk to us

The activist leaders of the BMA’s junior doctors are threatening to co-ordinate strikes with GPs and consultants if their pay demands are not met

Healthcare

Is the war crushing Russia’s economy? Quite the opposite

‘Coffin money’ is only one of the forces cutting inequality more effectively than Putin did in peacetime




Dress, £3,750, Prada


Ncuti Gatwa and Jodie Whittaker as the Doctor in Doctor Who season 2.
Doctor Who finale: an inexplicable ending to an inexplicable journey

Ncuti Gatwa’s 15th Doctor made an early exit but a surprise appearance leaves options open for future

TV & Radio
38 minutes ago


Smoke and flames rise from a building in Gaza after an airstrike.
Hamas accepts US ceasefire but adds demands Israel will probably refuse

Migrants boarding a small boat to cross the English Channel.
Coastguard ‘too busy with migrant rescues’ to come to yacht’s aid

Smoke and flames rise from a building in Gaza after an airstrike.
Hamas accepts US ceasefire but adds demands Israel will probably refuse





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Farmers are the new miners — pawns in a political game


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Dame Andrea Jenkyns, Lincolnshire Mayor, in a yellow dress.
Reform’s Andrea Jenkyns: ‘I’m usually where there’s trouble’

She has worked at Greggs, been a beauty queen and released a pop album. Now she is the new Reform mayor of Lincolnshire


David Challen sitting on a park bench.
Dad wasn’t a monster, but I don’t blame my mother for killing him


British Airways Airbus A380 taking off from London Heathrow Airport.
British Airways to undercut rivals with cheaper ‘green’ flights

Portrait of John Swinney and his wife Elizabeth Quigley at home.
John Swinney: My wife’s MS meant I almost didn’t lead the SNP


Pete Hegseth speaking at the Shangri-La Dialogue Summit.
Chinese invasion of Taiwan could be ‘imminent’, US warns




Beyoncé wearing a white cowboy hat and fringe jacket.
The making of Beyoncé — by friends, family and Team Bey insiders


Yates produces one of the great British performances to win Giro


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Editor's picks

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Musk’s Doge debacle has done us all a favour

It is difficult for disruptive outsiders to reform the system — but the Tesla boss’s attempts offer valuable lessons



Illustration of a snake and ladders game board with a large snake dominating the board, and several people interacting with the game.

Cartoon by Peter Schrank



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Pronatalism will bring votes but not babies






a woman wearing a necklace with a cross on it
Pronatalism will bring votes but not babies






Woman sitting on a couch.

Relationship expert Tracey Cox, 63, tells Anna Maxted what a lifetime of experience has taught her


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Matt RuddHow to beat the scammers? Bore them to death




Rachel Reeves speaking at a UK-EU summit reception.

Yields on UK government bonds are high, due to both Donald Trump’s policies and domestic economic problems. That makes it expensive to borrow


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Dominic O'ConnellStep into the looking-glass wonderland of civil service pensions


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Collage of Manchester United players, a club official, and a Hong Kong road sign.

Years of mismanagement caught up with Amorim’s side in farcical Asia tour but raft of regulations make it difficult for clubs not to bleed out



A photo of a man in uniform, old documents stamped "Secret", and Soviet seals.

Gordon Corera’s The Spy in the Archive is a memorial to Vasili Mitrokhin, the KGB archivist who smuggled out of Russia a ‘counterintelligence bonanza’




Brisbane's Streets Beach, an inner-city man-made beach with people swimming and relaxing.
Kathryn FlettShould I crash my son’s gap year?


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Illustration of a hand holding a wad of £50 notes.
Is your pension at risk of a tax grab?


Illustration of a multigenerational family walking, holding hands, with a row of houses and stacks of money in the background.
I pay my parents’ mortgage: welcome to the Bank of Son and Daughter

Is now the time to invest in an easy-access cash Isa?



‘Canada Life rejected my £80k claim for illness it said it would cover’

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