The prime minister has revealed UK authorities told him there was ‘clear evidence’ that Moscow meddled in the referendum
When Andy Burnham told the Labour conference “Brexit has done more harm than good” and that all options were on the table for the UK’s long-term relationship with the EU, the civil servants who have been beavering away on Europe policy for months were stunned. “Nobody was expecting this,” one Whitehall source said. “Officials were totally reeling. It was a million miles away from what they have been working on.
“It’s exciting to have more ambition, but they also need to work out what to do next. It’s a new world they’re in.”
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The gobsmacking revelation at the centre of the new series of The Celebrity Traitors hasn’t just come as a surprise to its faithful viewers, it caused the creators of the BBC hit series to reel in horror, according to one of its makers.
“We sat in the control room, watching from a distance, with hands over our faces, [thinking] ‘What is going to happen?’” said Mike Cotton, an executive producer.
“There are no producers in the castle talking to contestants or trying to shape the show. So we don’t really have any control over anything, except in the way we plan the season and the set pieces. And you couldn’t have planned for that.”
In his first interview, the scientist Ray Pederson, who discovered the hormone that led to the development of GLP-1s, reveals his concerns about their widespread use
A dispute before the High Court in London pitches mining giant Rio Tinto against one of the poorest communities in southern Africa
Actor Nkechi Simms hoped asking to see her social service files would provide explanations as to why she had spent her childhood being passed around foster homes. But far from healing, the process left her even more distressed. Her experience, the subject of a new Observer podcast, highlights the urgent need to reform the system
The inquiry into deaths of babies at the Countess of Chester hospital was harshly critical of the nurse’s character, but some insist a way will be found to give her another hearing
Over three years, Stephanie Arcanjo built a home with her boyfriend, Eric. Then one day he vanished, and the police came knocking
The annual attraction has been a rite of passage in the seaside town for almost 150 years
The many worlds of Susie Cave – model, designer, wife, mother – are captured in a hauntingly poignant new book of photographs by her longtime friend and creative collaborator Dominique Issermann
Glaciers are not supposed to stop moving, but in 2014 one did. Miles Ellingham travels to Iceland to see it and meet the activist who believes its death should shock us into taking action
How Ashes scars and sense of betrayal ended the Stokes era: Captain pushed himself to limit after Australia failure but the joy had gone... so when he felt ECB threw him under the bus, there was no way back
The foreign-based tech mogul is using the X algorithm to influence British politics in more sinister ways than the £72m given to Reform last week, writes Rachel Sylvester
As the embroidery arrives in the UK for the first time in 950 years, experts say the women who created it were playing a strategic game of survival
The super spy’s creator had some advice on how 007 should look years before Sean Connery graced the screen