Council plans to divert car traffic from city via a ring road while providing more buses and cycle linesBirmingham has announced what it calls a “transformative” transport plan that will see the car-centric city becoming a super-sized low-traffic neigh…
Sarah Everard murder: Met to launch review of standards and internal culture
Leading figure will challenge force on corruption and sexual misconduct, vows Cressida DickThe Metropolitan police is launching a review of professional standards and internal culture within the force, led by a high-profile anti-sleaze adviser, followi…
If we’re serious about ending violence against women, we need to talk about culture | Fiona Vera-Gray
From true crime to pornography, the way women are depicted onscreen has real-life consequencesLast week saw politicians and the police scrambling for solutions to end the epidemic of violence against women. There have been the usual suggestions of rape…
Met police officer remanded in custody over alleged rape
PC David Carrick is accused of attacking woman in St Albans last year after they met on dating appA Metropolitan police officer who is accused of raping a woman he met on the dating app Tinder has been remanded in custody.PC David Carrick, 46, who serv…
HarperCollins removes story from David Walliams’ book The World’s Worst Children
After criticism of the ‘casual racism’ of a story about a Chinese boy, the publisher has taken it out of the next print run of the bestselling anthology David Walliams’ story about a Chinese boy called Brian Wong, which was criticised by campaigners f…
Drivers clash with Insulate Britain activists blocking three London roads
Protesters stop traffic at Hanger Lane, the Blackwall tunnel and Wandsworth BridgeInsulate Britain activists have staged three morning roadblocks in central London, leading to dozens of arrests and confrontations with drivers stuck in heavy traffic at …
The Tory ‘emergency fund’ is an admission that universal credit shouldn’t be cut | Tom Pollard
The government is plugging its £6bn cut with a £500m one-off bung. How many people will struggle for food and heating?Working in frontline NHS mental health services during the darkest days of the pandemic, I often encountered people in crisis who did …
What may happen if article 16 of Northern Ireland protocol is triggered?
Brexit minister David Frost threatens EU with use of emergency brakeLatest news from Tory conference – live updatesThe UK Brexit minister, David Frost, has stepped up demands on the EU to renegotiate the Northern Ireland protocol, a linchpin of Boris J…
No Time to Die: James Bond film smashes box office records
Daniel Craig’s final outing as 007 has made £88m in the 54 countries worldwide in which it has launchedDaniel Craig’s final outing as 007 has smashed UK box office records, grossing more on its opening weekend than any other film in the history of the …
Tory conference: Sunak rejects Truss’s suggestion government has no responsibility for food supply
Follow the latest politics news as the Conservative party meets in Manchester for its conference The New Statesman’s George Eaton has posted this in response to one of Rishi Sunak’s comments this morning.My colleague Matthew Weaver is writing a blog wi…