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Readers might not like it, but it’s clear which politician has been most brutally effective in 2024.

Australia is set to roll back into deficit when the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook is released tomorrow, and the government has handed the ABC a $40m funding increase.

We have long since got used to our corporate crown jewels being raided by foreign buyers: Roll-Royce Motors, Land Rover, Harrods, Heathrow, even Weetabix and Polos are all in the stewardship of overseas owners. Vital public services such as Thames Water are also not excluded from the list.

Why, after decades of action and talk, are we still seeing so many women die?

It would be cheek and impudence on my part to instruct the head of the Church of England about the True Meaning of Christmas but when has that ever stopped a journalist? I have in mind the news all over the papers that the Duke of York is being “urged…

A strain now circulating in dairy cows appears to carry little risk for humans at present, but we need to develop an effective strategy before it mutates, says public health expert Devi Sridhar

François Bayrou faces the same budgetary headache as Michel Barnier – but the parliamentary equation has changed, says Paul Taylor of the European Policy Centre

The PM can’t simply sit back and hope things will settle down. But look to history: there is an inevitability about his predicament, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

Is the leadership role in the national opposition space open again?