Revealed: top 10 children’s care providers made £300m profits
The 10 largest providers of children’s social care placements made more than £300m in profits last year, according to research that will fuel concerns over...
UK’s Homes for Ukraine scheme risks operating as ‘Tinder for sex traffickers’, say charities
Michael Gove’s Homes for Ukraine scheme risks operating as “Tinder for sex traffickers” according to experts. The warning comes as evidence emerges that UK-based criminals...
Britain should knuckle down and embrace the boring | Letters
I had hoped post Brexit that the UK would become a boring, reliable friend of freedom and democracy (“Do you find everyone else boring? You’ve...
The Observer view on why Europe’s pressure on Putin must redouble | Observer editorial
No amount of propaganda or fake news can disguise the fact that President Vladimir Putin and Russia’s invaders are in deep trouble in Ukraine. The...
Sunak’s ‘jam tomorrow’ offer won’t taste sweet in 2024 | Phillip Inman
Rishi Sunak has put in place one of the essential building blocks of a Tory victory at the next general election – a cut in...
Jiggery-wokery: the real obstacle to a united front on Ukraine | Rowan Moore
Beware the journalistic use of the word “we”. It’s a slippery pronoun that can slide from meaning “we, the whole of humanity” to “we, the...
Tonight in Britain the clocks will go forward – all except mine | Stefano Pavone
On Sunday, clocks across the UK will go forward by an hour – except mine. Since October 2018, I have been living my life entirely...
Nuclear power is back in the game, but remains a distant prospect for UK
Compared to some of his pet projects – the bridge across the Irish Sea or a floating airport in the Thames – Boris Johnson’s plan...
Vladimir Putin plays poisoner’s poker – cartoon
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Putin has a 21st-century digital battle plan, so why is he fighting like it’s 1939? | John Naughton
One thing at least we know about Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine: it isn’t going according to plan. Ah, yes, you reply, but which plan?...