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It’s rare to feel excited about UK housing developments, but this ambitious project in Sussex is truly remarkable, says writer and curator Phineas Harper

Now available at supermarket chains as well cafes and bakeries, the pastel de nata has become a UK staple

From a huge budget deficit to weak GDP and a record rise in tax, we look at the background to the Tory budget

PM says in No10 address that extremist groups are a growing threat to British democracy

A spotlight on the Leeds music scene, from visionary tracks about broken Britain to early Beefheart-meets-Disney

The past was not a good place to die in Britain. Frightening diseases that are essentially vanquished in modern times were rife, deadly, and untreatable. Think syphilis, leprosy and the Black Death. Then there was the endemic violence. Readers of Alice Roberts’s Crypt, the third in her trilogy of books…

The level of debate was like a saloon bar shouting match. But all juries need reform, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

UK children having parents of mixed nationalities could be prone to mental health problems as UK families face separation issues due to the new family visa salary requirement.

Our nightlife isn’t universally suffering. What it needs is participation, not elegies, says freelance journalist Dan Hancox

Tourist tax just the latest in a series of Conservative measures seen as anti-London

Voters in the northern English town of Rochdale go to the polls Thursday in a by-election that has roiled the Labour Party with a new anti-Semitism controversy. Britain’s main opposition party was the clear favourite until its candidate was disowned for espousing conspiracy theories about Israel. The row recalls the…