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THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: With the NHS under pressures not seen since the once-in-a-century Covid pandemic, the BMA’s refusal to reconsider the timing of its industrial action is dangerous and wrong

For years, the home office loophole gave remote workers and freelancers a way to deduct expenses tied to working from home. Internet bills, utility costs, office furniture, and even a portion of rent or mortgage payments could be written off under certain conditions. This deduction helped offset the hidden costs…

Andrew Bailey told the UK Covid-19 Inquiry that policymakers would have benefited from having easier sight of data, such as universal credit.

The most unstable, violent societies have one thing in common: lonely young men. We are producing millions of them, writes Scott Galloway

Ecologically important Diadema africanum almost eliminated by unknown disease in Canary Islands

A federal judge says she plans to rule quickly on a Georgia man's assertion that his execution next week should be halted

It is too early to know whether the latest figures represent the start of a new upwards trend.

The pandemic saw a jump in the number of deaths in the UK – which in turn caused a fall in life expectancy estimates

Rogue macaques have been terrorising parts of Thailand since the pandemic

Nine months after a school reopened, a child’s likelihood of being diagnosed with a mental health condition plummeted by 43%, say researchers

COMMENT: One of the biggest risks to Britain's security in the past five years was the Covid-19 pandemic, meaning the structures for controlling and addressing risks to global health are critical, writes Olivia O’Sullivan