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The National Health Service is straining under a Covid backlog that now stretches to more than 7.4 million procedures, writes Therese Raphael

Match of the Day presenter forces a rethink on social-media guidelines and employees’ personal views

It may look as if the UK Supreme Court dealt a death blow to Nicola Sturgeon's strategy for Scottish independence, with its ruling on Wednesday that no referendum could be held without agreement from Westminster. In fact, it did the opposite. The Sco...

There is no shortage of grim headlines in Britain right now. The country is facing catastrophically high living costs, a steady drumbeat of strike action and potential blackouts this winter. So, here is another cheery thought: the breaking point for ...

A year ago, Rishi Sunak was the runaway favourite to be the next Tory leader, with Liz Truss polling only a third of his support. He started the contest in front in surveys of members and won the parliamentary stage of the race comfortably. Polls now...

Britain's Tories have been in power for a long time and incumbents generally get a midterm beating. So, of course, Boris Johnson is expecting a slapdown in local government elections tomorrow. There are plenty of reasons for voters to deliver one. Hi...

One of the quainter rules among British lawmakers is they cannot openly accuse each other of lying. It does not bode well for Boris Johnson that on Wednesday his opponents found so many ways around that convention, with barely a peep of protest from ...

By the time Brits returned from the long New Year's weekend, well over 600,000 people had signed a petition seeking to deny former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair the knighthood he was awarded in the Queen's New Year's honours list. Blair hardly needs ...

Boris Johnson, the British Prime Minister, faces yet another week of political crisis even as his Government confronts new public-health challenges posed by the Omicron variant of Covid-19. His leadership is being questioned at an especially delicat...

Regular tennis fans got an introduction to 18-year-old Emma Raducanu’s power and personality during her impressive run at Wimbledon this year. But it was her victory at the US Open on Saturday that turned the Toronto-born Briton into one of those ath...