Can a collective portrait of Britain hold together a country that feels as if it is splintering apart? That is the quietly radical hope behind Es Devlin’s new installation at the National Portrait Gallery: a living portrait comprised not of monarchs, politicians or celebrities but of thousands of ordinary faces drifting slowly into and out […]
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Brooke Davies Published May 14, 2026 2:46pm Updated May 14, 2026 3:58pm Saturday is set to see central London swarmed by 80,000 protesters, including Tommy Robinson. Far-right protesters will join Robinson – real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon – for the Unite the Kingdom protest, while another 30,000 are expected to march to mark Nakba Day, also […]
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Wes Streeting’s potential leadership bid has been the subject of mockery from figures within Labour, while the Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch’s slapdown of the now former health secretary in the Commons on Wednesday went viral on social media. However, in Streeting’s parliamentary seat of Ilford North, his constituents seem rather fond of him and pleased […]
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Brooke Davies Published May 14, 2026 6:00am Updated May 14, 2026 10:51am Dangerous e-bikes and e-scooters are being kept inside London hospitals in what campaigners warn is a ‘preventable tragedy waiting to happen’. Metro can reveal the devices are being kept in staff rooms, corridors, and even toilet cubicles, despite NHS rules banning them from […]
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Some £139 million has been paid out so far in a scheme for those permanently disabled in an incident from Northern Ireland’s troubled past. The total comes just months before the Troubles Permanent Disablement Payment Scheme will close to new applicants at the end of August. It opened on August 31, 2021 with the aim […]
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Sir Keir Starmer retains “full confidence” in Wes Streeting as Health Secretary, even as he looks set to resign in a bid to launch a leadership challenge. Mr Streeting confronted his boss over the crisis engulfing Labour as the pair met for crunch talks – which lasted less than 20 minutes – in Downing Street […]
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Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is facing an investigation by the Commons sleaze watchdog over a £5 million gift from a party donor. Mr Farage was referred to Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards Daniel Greenberg over the undeclared gift from Thailand-based cryptocurrency investor Christopher Harborne received in 2024. The Reform leader has previously insisted there is […]
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When half a million participants signed up to UK Biobank, a major health database containing genetic and medical information from volunteers, they thought they were giving up access to their data to help improve academic research and to unlock new insights into how we get ill — and, crucially, how we can prevent it. So […]
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The painting has been sold at auction in Edinburgh (Stewart Attwood/PA) PA Media A “dramatic” painting of Mount Vesuvius erupting in 1774 by an artist said to have witnessed the event has sold for more than £25,000 at auction. Landscape artist Jakob Philipp Hackert’s painting went under the hammer at Lyon & Turnbull in Edinburgh […]
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Burger aficionados on the hunt for the UK’s best can finally stop searching. That’s because the title has been claimed, at least for the rest of 2026. The winner of the National Burger Awards has been crowned, and it might surprise some to learn who took the top spot. British burger chain, Honest Burger, was […]
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