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Well, you can't say that my new book, Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America, was not well-timed. Last week, the Supreme Court took up the issue of affirmative action in admissions, and directly addressed the question raised in my book as to whether the classifications are too…

Recent decades have seen many legendary names vanish from Glasgow's shopping thoroughfares and there are loads we miss dearly. We take a look at six we'd like to see make a comeback.

Despite a surge in demand for girls football in Wales, women's domestic top-flight football has yet to feel a similar injection of enthusiasm amid ongoing struggles to keep pace with a rapidly changing landscape.

Brief letters: Labour and the City | Morrissey’s motorway stop | Vince Cable’s legacy | Silent school dinners | The Year of the Three Kings

Beloved corgis Muick and Sandy were seen at Windsor Castle during her funeral

The Rt Hon John Smith served as an MP for almost a quarter of a century and, as leader of the UK Labour Party.

The director talks about his intellectual, political and hilarious body of work, as a retrospective is staged with contributions from his former students Carol Morley and Jarvis Cocker

This is the beating heart of honest, awkward, idealistic, funny, cynical, romantic British politics, writes Paul Routledge as he recalls half a century of long speeches, block votes and late nights drinking

As a result of the Queen’s death, Muick and Sandy could display symptoms of anxiety and depression.

John Smith, dog expert and founder of Yappy, said that the corgis will feel the loss of their owner being gone.

These are the criminals from our region who were locked up over the past seven days