Backlash against Keir Starmer's plan to show the Netflix drama Adolescence in schools has grown after more than 1,500 teachers and parents signed a letter saying the series is not suitable as an educational resource.
Keir Starmer is preparing to rush through changes that water-down electric vehicle targets as soon as next week as carmakers brace for Donald Trump's tariffs – but carmakers warn the changes don't go far enough.
People who want to understand teenage boys would be better off watching The Inbetweeners than Adolescence, says Joanna Gray. It captures perfectly the best and worst of adolescent boys in the pre-smartphone age.
A visitor to the UK from Australia is worried, seeing widening social, political and economic fractures that leave the UK in danger of a cultural collapse. Hope is not lost, she says, but it is quickly draining away.
Keir Starmer’s free trade deal with the US is at risk over free speech after the US State Department warned there would be "no free trade without free speech" – but Whitehall officials have dismissed it as a bluff.
Nigel Farage has topped a 'best Prime Minister' poll as bookmakers make him the 3/1 favourite to be next PM ahead of the May 1st local elections. Can anything break the Reform leader's momentum?
If the Labour party really wants to halve violence against women and girls in the UK by 2035, why not try deporting their rapists, suggests Steven Tucker.
The disconnect between Keir Starmer's fine-sounding words about his Ukraine 'coalition of the willing' and the meagre reality has reached Stalinesque proportions, says Dr Frederick Attenborough.
Has American pressure on Labour over free speech paid off? An unexpectedly robust statement about academic freedom from Bridget Phillipson this week suggests it may well have, says Julian Mann.
Migrants will be housed in hotels for years to come at a cost of £5.5m a day, the Treasury has admitted, as figures show there are 8,000 more asylum seekers in hotels than when Starmer pledged to "end asylum hotels".
