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  • Close-up of woman's hands during counselling meeting

    MPs urge government to regulate UK psychotherapists and counsellors

  • Ed Davey with volunteers at the charity

    Ed Davey urges Starmer to ‘Trump-proof’ UK with closer European ties

    Lib Dem leader says government should work with Trump but be prepared for him to act on security and trade threats
  • Vigils Held For Murdered Schoolgirl Brianna Ghey in GLASGOW

    Ofcom warns tech firms after chatbots imitate Brianna Ghey and Molly Russell

    After ‘distressing incidents’, watchdog says content from user-made bots would be covered by UK Online Safety Act

  • Met officer who killed Jean Charles de Menezes on tube defends his actions

  • Met police refer two cases to watchdog after Fayed investigation complaints

  • Schizophrenic Leicestershire man who killed mother given life sentence

  • Liverpool baby hospice saved after city helps raise funds for new home

  • Donald Trump has been invited to address UK parliament, says Nigel Farage

  • Downing Street to decide upon new US ambassador within days

  • Work experience can tackle school absences, says Manchester airport boss

UK politics

  • Jonathan Powell with his arms crossed

    Tony Blair’s former chief of staff appointed PM’s national security adviser

  • Nigel Farage speaking at the Reform UK Welsh Conference.

    British voters do not like Trump ‘because they don’t really know him’, Farage claims – as it happened

    • Starmer’s reforms to ministerial code do not go far enough, union head says

    • Asda boss says £100m hit from Labour budget could affect wages and hiring

    • ‘I won’t be dancing in the streets’: views on Tories’ first black leader

    • Tax changes in budget last straw for UK farmers after ‘years of being squeezed’

    • Lammy dismisses past criticism calling Trump a ‘sociopath’ as ‘old news’

    • Tax unhealthy foods to tackle obesity, say campaigners

Analysis and explainers

  • Nigel Farage being interviewed: he sits in front of a blue screen covered in Reform UK logos which have the party's name set within an arrow that points to the right

    Labour lacks strategy to tackle Farage as Reform UK sets sights on Senedd seats

  • A composite of Donald Trump and Keir Starmer

    No 10 believes it has done its homework for a Trump presidency

  • An online energy bill seen on a smartphone with pound notes and coins in the background

    What will the UK’s plan for clean energy by 2030 mean for the industry and public?

  • Kemi Badenoch

    Who has been appointed to Kemi Badenoch’s shadow cabinet?

Culture

  • A man stands outside the temple at St Agnes Place in Kennington, south London.

    Exhibition brings London HQ of Rastafarian faith back to life

  • Jamie Oliver in his studio in London

    Jamie Oliver apologises after his children’s book is criticised for ‘stereotyping’ First Nations Australians

    Exclusive: Publisher takes responsibility for the failure to consult Indigenous groups, who say the fantasy novel trivialises complex and painful histories
  • Robert Smith performing with the Cure at the Troxy, London, 1 November.

    The Cure score first UK No 1 album in 32 years with Songs of a Lost World

    Robert Smith says getting first chart-topper since 1992’s Wish is ‘enormously uplifting’ and ‘genuinely heartwarming’

  • Brian Cox urges artists to ‘keep flag of truth flying’ after Trump win

  • Glasgow toasts 20 years of theatrical lunchtimes with A Play, a Pie and a Pint

  • Cornish monument is 4,000 years older than was thought and ‘without parallel’

  • Police submit file to CPS over Tim Westwood sexual abuse allegations

Education

  • Martyn Oliver photographed at a primary school: tall man sits on a child-sized red table surrounded by bright red plastic chairs

    Ofsted head says English schools should not turn away ‘difficult’ pupils

  • Bridget Phillipson speaking to teachers and teaching assistants at a reception hosted by Keir Starmer in 10 Downing Street.

    Phillipson to ask schools to end exam ‘tunnel vision’ and look to wellbeing

  • Prof Steven West, the vice-chancellor of the University of the West of England

    English universities could miss out on millions from tuition fee increase

  • A school dinner tray with a baked potato with sausage and beans, sweetcorn, melon and apple juice

    Children as young as two treated for obesity-related illness in England

Society

  • A tray with a divided dish with rice and colourful vegetable dishes in five different sections, and three round bowls, two with soups in and one with fruit

    Bland, soggy slop or scratch-cooked chilli and pancakes? The best and worst hospital food around the world – in pictures

  • More than 100 people got in touch with the Guardian to share their concerns about therapists.

    ‘A therapist shouldn’t be giving you hugs’: readers share bad counselling experiences

    • A pharmacist holding a box of Mounjaro

      Approved weight-loss drug contributed to UK nurse’s death, report says

    • John Smyth

      C of E covered up attacks by serial abuser John Smyth, review finds

    • New council houses

      New council housing in England may be removed from right to buy scheme

Multimedia

  • Angel Christmas lights at night with red busses and black taxis

    Fires, floods and Christmas lights: photos of the day - Friday

  • FHH beautiful renovations Yorkshire

    Beautifully renovated homes in England and Scotland – in pictures

    • Men push a vintage car away from a house ablaze

      Motocross in Milan and Shaka unveiled: photos of the day – Thursday

    • Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images

      President Trump: Maga strikes back – Politics Weekly UK

    • Badenoch spars with Starmer over Labour’s view of Donald Trump at PMQs – video

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