Bumper fees paid in the year’s mergers and acquisitions spark anger over high City pay during cost of living crisis

Stage and screen director behind landmark productions of Samuel Beckett, John Osborne and Edward Albee

Campaigners say care users face a postcode lottery for support overseas – despite no extra cost to taxpayer

Exclusive: Analysis finds cost of higher education ‘falls overwhelmingly on the individual’

Sports photographer for the Observer and the Sunday Times who sought to capture human drama and emotion

In speech on Tuesday, Tory leader will claim obligation to consider equality being used to advance ‘divisive agendas’

Report into royal property affairs reveals disgraced ex-prince generated private income from Windsor Royal Lodge

A biography of the creative force behind Mrs Merton and The Royle Family focuses on the stories behind her work

Commentators have said that the US president’s clownishness and lack of ideology somehow make him less dangerous. They’re wrong, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

Broadcaster who brought world music to a mainstream audience on BBC Radio 1 and travelled widely to report on conflict and the cultures that fascinated him

Former Radio 2 presenter reportedly investigated over relationship with teenage boy but case closed through lack of evidence

School leaders believe some deploy a deliberate strategy to boost grades and improve finances, new research suggests

Founder and staff at TCES Nurture primary, which has not excluded a child in 25 years, say key factor is how support is delivered

Joseph Rowntree Foundation finds problem is ‘deeper and more damaging than at any point in the last 30 years’

Rhythm guitarist helped guide the legendary jam band through decades of change and success

Exclusive: Trinity Hall’s new policy described as a ‘slap in the face’ for state-educated students

World-class footballer who won the European Cup with Nottingham Forest twice

Award-winning playwright Tom Stoppard has died aged 88

At 90, McCullin has spent seven decades recording conflict and tragedy – while escaping snipers, mortar fire and capture. He reflects on pain, pride and regret

Letters: Readers defend courses that Kemi Badenoch has deemed not worthy of government funding

One of the Liverpool poets, along with Roger McGough and Adrian Henri, who was a perceptive writer on love

Outspoken poet and dramatist admired for his stage adaptations, including The Mysteries

Writer of books such as Each Peach Pear Plum and Peepo! capturing a child’s outlook with his illustrator wife Janet

Helen Hayes says commitment would help rebuild trust among parents in England worried about children’s future

From 1938 to 1957, the celebrated photo magazine captured tattooists, transgender women and topless men sinking pints – and changed the way the country saw itself

Photographer who took harrowing images of the conditions in which poor British people lived in the 1960s and 70s