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By Jack Maidment 16 Jan 2023, 8:18am

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Police to get new powers to shut down protests amid fightback against disruptive tactics

By Ben Riley-Smith 16 Jan 2023, 6:55am
Let daughters inherit peerages, says MP vowing to end sexism in the Lords

By Telegraph Reporters 16 Jan 2023, 6:00am
Scottish NHS patients forced to wait years for diagnostic tests

By Simon Johnson 16 Jan 2023, 6:00am
Job hunters made redundant ‘should get up to 80pc of their salary’

By Nick Gutteridge 16 Jan 2023, 6:00am
Only foundational reform can fix the NHS

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Schools urged to stay open for GCSE and A-level students if teachers go on strike

By Ben Riley-Smith 15 Jan 2023, 9:30pm

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The destruction of truth is at the heart of Western cultural decline

When there are no rules and no facts, all our rights come under threat from the self-obsessed elites

Nick Timothy
The UN’s race ‘experts’ should learn from Britain

An alternative narrative is emerging in this country, one that prioritises freedom for ethnic minorities over victimhood

Inaya Folarin Iman
More classical music is the way to level up our state schools

I’d be an entirely different person without the love of music nourished by my education – it is too important to be wasted on the elite

Jane Shilling
We must be able to threaten tech bosses with jail

There is precedence for this: jail sentences for senior managers in other UK legislation are commonplace for breaches of statutory duties

Bill Cash

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Live Ukraine Russia war Russia 'builds nuclear warheads for indestructible Poseidon super torpedo'

By Jessica Abrahams 16 Jan 2023, 8:37am
Hunter Biden asks judge to stop estranged daughter adopting his surname

US president’s 52-year-old, scandal-prone son is involved in a legal dispute concerning the daughter he had with a stripper

By David Millward 15 Jan 2023, 7:57pm
Wagner mercenary dodges rifle fire and tracker dogs in high-stakes escape into Norway

Andrei Medvedev says he climed two barbed wire fences and crossed the frozen Pasvik River after escaping from the brutal military group

By James Kilner 15 Jan 2023, 7:53pm
Pictured: Miraculous rescue of woman pulled from building torn open by Russian missile

Anastasia Shvets sheltered in the bathroom of her Dnipro apartment as Cold War missiles designed to sink an aircraft carrier rained down

By James Kilner 15 Jan 2023, 7:37pm

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Labour’s plan to ‘nationalise’ GPs would cost more than £7bn

Sir Keir Starmer wants to overhaul the system and bring in a new one that sees doctors 'fairly rewarded'

By Lizzie Roberts 15 Jan 2023, 7:00pm
Boris Johnson comeback ‘would be dreaded by businesses’

NatWest chairman says return ‘wouldn’t be well-received’, as former PM faces fresh questions over his finances

By Nick Gutteridge 15 Jan 2023, 5:20pm
Nicola Sturgeon's independence plan is not 'deflating', insists SNP Westminster leader

Stephen Flynn defends party's strategy after Sturgeon watered down her pledge to use the next general election as a 'de facto' referendum

By Simon Johnson 15 Jan 2023, 1:54pm
Keir Starmer: 16-year-olds are too young to change legal gender

Labour leader voices 'concerns' over Nicola Sturgeon's gender recognition law, but pledges to remove 'indignities' from the current system

By Nick Gutteridge 15 Jan 2023, 12:51pm
Public support for NHS strikes soars amid warnings they put ‘lives at risk’

Poll reports that 59 per cent of British voters back industrial action by doctors and nurses, ahead of next week’s fresh walkouts

By Camilla Turner 15 Jan 2023, 7:00am
Sir Keir Starmer: I will slash ‘nonsense’ bureaucracy in the NHS

'Reform or die' warning as Labour leader criticises 'mind-boggling waste of time, energy and money'

By Camilla Turner 15 Jan 2023, 12:19am
Brexit deal at risk amid fears Rishi Sunak will cave in to EU demands

Lord Dodds accuses PM of ‘softening people up’ for Protocol concessions that could pave the way to a Labour-led Single Market reconciliation

By Will Hazell 15 Jan 2023, 12:13am
Government to crack down on trans athletes competing in female sports

Culture Secretary calls meeting of sports executives and will urge them to ‘protect the integrity’ of women’s events

By Camilla Turner 14 Jan 2023, 9:00pm