Keir Starmer defends his actions as Kemi Badenoch asks why Matthew Doyle was given ‘a job for life’

Formal approval given for new university group to operate from August, with both institutions keeping their names The universities of Greenwich and Kent have confirmed they have been given formal approval to merge into the UK’s first “super-university”. The merged entity will be the third-largest higher education institution in the UK, the universities said, and is consulting on being named the London and South East University Group. Continue reading...

When Essex University’s Southend campus opened, it was a message of hope for a ‘left behind’ UK seaside town. Its closure will be felt far beyond its 800 students, some of whom will not get their degr...

Open comment thread on the PM's Davos speech

Jo Warner reports on a qualitative study using semi-structured interviews with thirteen MPs. The aim of the research was to find out what characterises their constituency work and to understand why it...

Morgan McSweeney says Labour needs emotion, empathy and evidence, sources say

Video shows Gen Xu Qinxian explaining why he refused to deploy troops to crush 1989 student-led demonstrations

PostNord’s decision to end service on 30 December comes after fear over ‘increasing digitalisation’ of Danish society

Melissa Hortman died in a shocking act of political violence. This is her story

Release of 43-second video comes as senior church figures speak out against dangers of Christian nationalism

YouTube video by TheOncomingStorm

Judge rules Chowdhury Rahman used ChatGPT-like software and then tried to hide it, wasting immigration tribunal’s time

I studied Old and Middle English. Although I didn’t know it, I couldn’t have chosen a better subject to train me to become a children’s author, says author Francesca Simon

Husamettin Dogan loses appeal after jury at retrial finds him guilty of raping Pelicot while she was sedated

So many were killed – yet on her release, my mother said ‘shalom’ to her captors. Let’s learn from that moment of grace, says Sharone Lifschitz, London-based film-maker and academic

The world’s most successful democratic party is in a death spiral of its own making – leaving no moderate bulwark between the moderate and truly far right, writes Zoe Williams

In Cameroon, Ivory Coast and Togo, where therapy services are almost absent, some stylists are being trained to listen, comfort and guide

Last weekend, it fell to ordinary people to oppose the far right and others. The national toxicity has reached us: a kind of hate I haven’t seen since the 1970s