Many people are now opting for minimal contact with their parents and other relatives. But while this can provide time to think, it is fraught with emotional complexities
Pressure grows on Keir Starmer as Labour peer reported to have received payment worth three months’ salary when he quit in September
Paul Smith and the band play tracks old and new with a dash of humour and the sort of chops you develop from years on the road
Exit polls point to public endorsement of new prime minister, after day hit by blizzards and freezing conditions
Thousands of women with life-changing complications still in limbo two years after call for financial redress
Former culture minister Jack Lang resigns from Arab World Institute in Paris and is also subject of tax investigation
SpaceX’s acquisition of xAI creates business worth $1.25tn but whether premise behind deal will work is questioned
Movements are not born fully formed – they begin when ordinary people decide to act
While Quebec parties have long sought independence, the secret meetings by unelected Albertans with US officials have been branded treasonous by some
Labour faces a battle to hold on to its 13,000 majority, with the Greens the bookies’ favourite and Reform hoping to gain from split vote on left
Clive Foster says action needed now to deliver justice to UK residents who had been wrongly classified as illegal immigrants
Two Cornishmen agreed on the problems facing their home county. Would they see eye to eye on the solutions?