Politics
Rio Ferdinand calls on government to punish and educate online abusers
“You can go to a game and if you throw a banana on a pitch, there'll be repercussions. Online, you can post a banana to a black player and you're not going to get punished. How is that right? Can't be," the former England footballer and TV pundit said.
Flashback: To when Lord Digby Jones said Germany would be queuing up for tariff-free deal with UK
Figures released this week show Britain has been relegated from Germany's top 10 trading countries.
Labour takes shock lead in the polls
The YouGov survey suggests plans to hike National Insurance to plug a funding shortfall in the NHS and social care has backfired among voters.
Gavin Williamson uses videolink to tell university conference: ‘Get back to in-person teaching’
"The Tories are killing satire!", one person wrote, while another noted that the education secretary had probably confused Newcastle for Newquay.
France accuses Patel of ‘financial blackmail’ over migrant crossings
Gérald Darmanin, the French interior minister, publicly criticised the home secretary after a tense meeting on Wednesday.
‘Make Orwell fiction again’: Patel migrant move straight out of 1984
Government policy or extracts from Winston Smith's diary? You choose.
Full list of MPs who voted for the national insurance hike
Conservative MPs overwhelmingly backed the move despite a party promise before the 2019 election that they would not raise taxes.
Gavin Williamson confuses Marcus Rashford with Maro Itoje – Twitter reacts
The education secretary has also met Helen Mirren, Margaret Thatcher and Geronimo the alpaca , according to these pictures!
UK no longer one of Germany’s top 10 trading partners
Brexit-related trade barriers have knocked Britain out of the top 10 for the first time since 1950.