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Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver is calling for the Government to end food poverty by giving schoolchildren free meals during the holidays - this national scandal must end

Maria Caulfield accidentally said out loud what most people have been thinking - her reference to 'when they get into Government' was a revealing slip of the tongue

We salute the grafters who deliver take-aways - but Stride, peering down from his ivory tower, is glorifying a gig economy that is far too often an employment Wild West

The record 7.5 million people waiting for ops didn’t just materialise overnight - the number rose steadily before shooting up during Covid

Public hostility to an incompetent ­Government that worsened the cost of living crisis is deep, as Sunak should be well aware

No wonder he was attacked by a number of Conservative voices when renewable energy will give us cheaper power, supply security and jobs in the future

The vast majority of pet owners have nothing to fear and many support the clampdown, aware of the horror inflicted by a dangerous minority.

Scientists are near unanimous that it was heatwaves caused by burning too much fossil fuel which these fire into uncontrollable, raging infernos

The terrible abduction and murder of two-year-old James Bulger in Liverpool 30 years ago shocked the nation – and his mother Denise must be spared any further agony

The big household brands mustn’t wash their hands of responsibility - we are what we wear to some extent and paying a little more for clothes we’ll keep longer would benefit the earth

NHS England and health authorities in other parts of Britain beginning preparations is a reminder that viruses such as flu can be mass killers

Axing even popular, busy ones will ­intensify the backlash and strengthen the legal case of Labour mayors preparing a court challenge

The generosity of the Greek people is heartwarming - but questions must be asked about the funding of a Greek fire service with too little equipment and personnel

Pevention is the Government’s role. After 13 years of being run by the self-professed 'party of law and order', how can it still be so easy for a teenager to buy a deadly weapon?

Voters in North Yorkshire and Somerset spoke for a nation deserving a fresh start in Westminster and Downing Street - many people have lost faith with the Tories

Eyebrows have long been raised over the Duke of York’s conduct – from paying millions of pounds to a woman he said he did not recall having met, to saying he could not sweat

We’ve had years of Tories talking tough yet the murder of her son by two 17-year-olds is another tragedy highlighting the absence of effective action to save the innocent

It is an insult to those who lost loved ones to go ahead with the ceremony while the Met Police continue to investigate a “jingle and mingle” party by Bailey’s team in Tory HQ during a lockdown

The private train companies and Tory Government will have to go back to the drawing board if the Labour mayors, marshalled by Greater Manchester’s Andy Burnham, win their legal attempt to derail a consultation process dismissed as “shambolic”

Rising interest rates are a double attack on living standards in Britain as Sunak misses targets he set himself on the economy, NHS and Channel boats.

In the latest outrage of Tory asylum policy, refugees were placed in a holding camp between two shooting clubs in Essex - greeted by gunfire and no doubt dredging up ghastly memories

When 90% of NHS practices are no longer accepting new patients it is not surprising that one in five adults are no longer registered with a dentist - the Government needs to act

Teachers, doctors and nurses deserved to be paid more but they also deserve to work in schools that are not crumbling, hospitals that are not overcrowded, and wards with enough beds and scanners

The average 6.66 per cent rate is stinging in part because the Bank of England, with the backing of Rishi Sunak and Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, is hiking interest rates to curb inflation

No matter how longingly the desperate PM looks into the President’s eyes in search of a friend, Labour and Keir Starmer are far closer in outlook to the pragmatic Democrat