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2 months ago | 
thetimes.com | Oliver Wright |Dan Atherton |Anthony Cappaert |Darren Burchett
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | David Woode |Yennah Smart |Dan Atherton
Stepping off the train at 9pm last Thursday after dinner with a friend in central London, Arash Rezai-Karimi took out his iPhone 14 and sent a text while walking the ten-minute journey home. As he waited to cross a road, two men on e-bikes approached him from behind. The assailants, both dressed in black, snatched his £599 smartphone and sped off. “I didn’t know what to do,” said Rezai-Karimi, 35, an analyst manager from Catford, southeast London.
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Oct 27, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | George Willoughby |Dan Atherton
The Ballon d’Or is football’s most prestigious awards ceremony. Since its inception in 1956, it has been awarded 67 times, with Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo winning on 13 occasions. This year’s award will be presented on Monday and it will be the first time in 21 years that the pair have not been nominated. Who will fill the gap — and which players, nationalities and clubs have been the most successful?
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Oct 19, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Charlotte Ivers |Dan Atherton
It’s an incredibly revealing thing, watching someone eat. Perhaps that’s why we go for dinner on a first date, or sign a business deal over lunch. It doesn’t matter who the person is. From Keira Knightley to Al Gore, Jude Law to Mike Bloomberg: if you understand how, when and why they eat, you quickly understand a remarkable amount about them.
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Oct 19, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Marty Byrd |Louise Callaghan |Dan Atherton |TexasMark FELIX
Two weeks out from the US election and the candidates are scrapping for every last vote. While national polls show a very slight lead for Kamala Harris over Donald Trump, the race in the key swing states is too close to call. This weekend both candidates were staging get-out-the-vote events in battleground states as voters across the country take advantage of early voting — either in person or by post.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Dan Atherton |Ed Halford |Narottam Medhora
Chances are you probably won’t get a vote in who becomes the next Conservative leader. That honour will fall to about 170,000 party members who have an average age of 60, tend to be wealthy, and live in the southeast, according to research from Queen Mary University. But if you could, which of Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick would you actually vote for?
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Joey D’Urso |Dan Atherton |Ed Halford |Cecilia Tombesi
It’s a good thing the British are meant to be good at queueing: from the NHS to HMRC, we are having to wait longer for the state to do the things it used to. A key reason is that the government is still playing catch up after the pandemic. Others have blamed working from home. The data suggests the system is still struggling to meet demand — but it is not all doom and gloom. If you have a query about your payslip, be prepared to wait by the phone for half an hour or so.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Chris Smyth |Ed Halford |Dan Atherton
Sir Keir Starmer is standing firm in the face of intense pressure from his own MPs and union backers to rethink cuts to the winter fuel allowance. A threatened rebellion on Tuesday will set the tone of relations with hundreds of new Labour MPs, as well as decide on payments to millions of pensioners. But what are the payments and why are the changes so controversial? At present a payment of £200, rising to £300 for the over-80s, is available to all 12.6 million people over state pension age.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Ed Halford |Dan Atherton |Narottam Medhora |Tom Calver
Conservative Party donations fell by 90 per cent between the 2019 and 2024 elections, due to an exodus of the super-rich donors who bankrolled Boris Johnson’s campaign. Analysis of figures from the Electoral Commission shows that the Tories received only £1.8 million in the six-week election campaign, down from £19.4 million in 2019and the lowest in any Tory election campaign since 2001.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Bill Edgar |Dan Atherton
Gareth Southgate oversaw his 100th match as England manager when his team played in the Euro 2024 quarter-final against Switzerland. He added two more games as he led his side to the final, where defeat by Spain proved to be the last match of his England reign. Here we explore the facts and figures behind his eight-year stewardship of the national team. Southgate took charge of 102 England games, a figure exceeded by only two other managers (Sir Walter Winterbottom and Sir Alf Ramsey).
