Religious leader says suffering due to austerity has only worsened over past decade Via: From rising homelessness to racism, Archbishop Welby says he fears for UK's 'direction of travel'
Two former ministers speak out – warning both efforts to relieve global poverty and keep UK secure will be hit Via: Senior Tories turn on Boris Johnson over plan to abolish department that helps world's poorest after election win
UK will seek a Canada-style free trade agreement in talks due to be completed by the end of 2020 Via: Downing Street denies Boris Johnson wants to secure softer Brexit deal after election landslide
Water company issues Christmas plea for customers to stop pouring fat down drains Two huge fatbergs together weighing almost 100 tonnes and threatening to cause floods in homes and businesses over Christmas have been cleared from sewers in central London.Thames Water said a fatberg weighing 63 tonnes – several tonnes Read more
Anthropologist, researcher and writer who became an expert on historic photographsRoslyn Poignant, who has died aged 92, was a fine writer, a respected scholar and a tenacious historical detective. Trained as an anthropologist and historian, she was also a masterful interpreter of photographic evidence. Her forensic yet deeply humane research Read more
Schumer writes to McConnell seeking terms of trialThe lies have it: how Republicans abandoned the truthDemocrats are pressing for John Bolton, the former national security adviser fired by Donald Trump in September, and the president’s acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, to be called to testify in the impeachment trial Read more
Weinstein bemoaned how his reputation has been decimated by sexual misconduct allegations in an interview from a Manhattan hospital on Friday, one day after undergoing spinal surgery. Via: Harvey Weinstein claims he's 'done more for women than any other filmmaker'
Dawn Arguello, 46, fell for Nikko Jenkins, 35, while volunteering for an inmate advocacy group. Jenkins was sentenced to death for killing four people during a 2013 shooting spree in Nebraska. Via: Texas woman may marry death row inmate who slit his own penis
Hundreds of sausage dogs and their owners wore their festive finest and dressed up as snowmen, reindeer and Father Christmas as they gathered for a Christmas walk in Hyde Park today. Via: Sausage dogs and owners dress in festive attire for Christmas walk in Hyde Park
LORD GRADE: BBC’s Andrew Neil issued a petulant challenge at Boris Johnson and showed how journalists hijacked the airwaves during election time. We could end up similar to Fox News. Via: LORD GRADE writes that TV bosses overstepped the mark during election campaign