2025 • Dec 29
Influx of cheap Chinese imports could drive down UK inflation, economists say
As Trump’s tariffs take effect, Britain is likely alternative destination for cars, telecoms and sound equipment
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2025 • Dec 28
Tories and Labour face questions over support for activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah
Dissident was freed by Egypt after campaign by successive UK governments but offensive posts have surfacedThe decision by successive UK governments to campaign for the release and return of ...
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2025 • Dec 28
Vulnerable people still living in unsafe supported housing in England two years after law was passed
Charities and MP Bob Blackman urge government to implement law to tackle scandal of ‘exempt’ accommodationPeople are dying in unsafe accommodation and communities are being irreversibly dama...
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2025 • Dec 27
London Eye architect proposes 14-mile tidal power station off Somerset coast
West Somerset Lagoon would harness renewable energy for UK’s AI boom – and create ‘iconic’ arc around Bristol ChannelThe architect of the London Eye wants to build a vast tidal power station...
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2025 • Dec 26
British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah arrives in UK after travel ban lifted
Family say campaigner, who has a son in Brighton, will be able to travel freely between UK and Cairo months after his release from Egyptian jailThe British-Egyptian dissident Alaa Abd el-Fat...
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2025 • Dec 26
Unpublished ‘Tupperware erotica’ novel prompts fierce contest for TV rights
Interest in Wet Ink by Abigail Avis is part of a trend for works by female authors among streamers and production companies A much-hyped novel about a housewife who uses Tupperware parties t...
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2025 • Dec 25
The Titanic, Sinclair C5 and Brexit: the Museum of Failure is coming to the UK
Exhibition of design flops should suit British sense of humour, says its founder, but also shows failure is a part of learningBritain has been mismanaging inventions and ideas with impeccabl...
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2025 • Dec 25
‘Lost decade’ of progress after UK introduced shared parental leave, say experts
Research suggests fewer than one in 60 public sector workers share leave with partners when they have a baby
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2025 • Dec 25
Plant ‘tredges’ to boost England’s tree cover, gardeners urged
Royal Horticultural Society’s call backs government aim to increase woodland cover from 10% to at least 16.5% by 2050Gardeners should plant native “tredges” – foliage between the size of a t...
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2025 • Dec 25
Security bosses warn of rise in UK building site thefts by organised crime
Concerns thefts could accelerate over Christmas shutdown, with tools and equipment increasingly targetedThefts of tools and equipment from building sites are increasingly being carried out b...
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2025 • Dec 25
UK politics: Government says it is ‘fully committed to free speech’ after campaigners’ US visa ban – as it happened
Imran Ahmed and Clare Melford among five Europeans hit with visa bans over claims they wish to ‘suppress American viewpoints they oppose’The Global Disinformation Index, whi...
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2025 • Dec 25
Visa ban for European critics of online harm is first shot in US free speech war
Legislation that seeks to curb harmful content is viewed as a threat to Silicon Valley by many Maga politicians
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