Support comes on top of £1.1bn paid to handle collapsed energy firm’s administration costs
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/dec/21/uk-government-fund-bulb-takeover-octopus

The SNP’s proposals including making it easier to get a gender recognition certificate polarised national politics and provoked angry debate..
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/dec/21/scotlands-gender-recognition-bill-became-a-lightning-rod-for-wider-issues

Sum raised in less than two weeks for grassroots charities helping those struggling amid cost of living crisis
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/dec/21/guardian-and-observer-readers-raise-770000-for-charity-appeal-so-far

Coverage of climate crisis solutions is slim in textbooks, with many references moving to the back pages
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/dec/21/us-college-textbooks-not-addressing-climate-crisis-study

Intellectual Property Office says people using services such as Netflix without paying could face prosecution
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/dec/21/sharing-tv-streaming-passwords-is-says-uk-copyright-watchdog

Wish granted for mechanic Ray Nash to be buried in childhood home of Imber, on Salisbury Plain
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/dec/21/man-may-be-last-to-be-buried-in-evacuated-wiltshire-ghost-village

After a couple of U-turns the PM wants to show he can’t be pushed around on pay – but the public side with health workers
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/dec/21/nhs-pay-risky-issue-for-rishi-sunak-to-get-tough-about

In a year that saw three prime ministers, two monarchs and a whole lot of political and social unrest, how will 2022 be remembered? The Guar..
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/audio/2022/dec/22/podcast-how-will-2022-be-remembered-politics-weekly-uk

NHS ambulance staff have been on strike in England and Wales
https://www.theguardian.com/society/video/2022/dec/21/we-want-to-save-lives-ambulance-staff-strike-across-england-and-wales-video-report

With the party eyeing election victory, figures such as Ed Balls or David Miliband have been the subject of speculation
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/dec/21/could-big-beasts-from-labours-past-walk-into-keir-starmers-cabinet

New research shows public sector salaries have fallen significantly behind those in the private sector
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2022/dec/21/teachers-and-social-workers-suffer-most-from-lost-decade-for-pay-growth-in-uk

Welsh ambulance service apologises to Elizabeth Davies, whose care home and family made 10 calls for help after she fell
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/dec/20/93-year-old-left-screaming-in-pain-on-floor-during-25-hour-ambulance-wait

British director was known for his often bleak and brutal gangster films, most famously his 1971 film Get Carter starring Michael Caine
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/dec/21/mike-hodges-get-carter-and-flash-gordon-director-dies-aged-90

Guardian journalist Eric Allison spent more than two decades uncovering and writing about abuses in the British justice system. But for almo
https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2022/dec/21/the-career-criminal-who-became-a-prison-correspondent-podcast

Scotland Yard to look into footage in which Beckenham MP tells activist Sayed Alwadaei ‘go back to Bahrain’
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/dec/20/met-to-investigate-tory-mp-bob-stewart-over-alleged-racial-abuse

PM says rises could make inflation worse and states politicians should not ‘cut across’ independent pay review process
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/dec/20/rishi-sunak-refuses-to-budge-on-nhs-pay-as-strikes-continue

Ben Wallace says Putin regime will supply military technology in return for drones used to attack Ukraine
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/20/russia-plans-to-boost-military-links-with-iran-says-uk-defence-secretary

Photographer Sarah Lee takes to the street of London in the dark
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2022/dec/21/london-winter-nights-in-photographs

Musician reveals how he likes to relax in rare interview
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/dec/20/bob-dylan-reveals-his-tv-choices-are-positively-coronation-street

The prime minister said laws would be introduced next year to allow the UK to send people to their own countries or a safe third country
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/video/2022/dec/20/sunak-refuses-to-say-whether-his-asylum-plans-might-require-uk-to-leave-echr-video

High court did not end the home secretary’s plans, but there’s a long way to go before backbenchers are satisfied
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/dec/19/rwanda-dream-could-still-become-a-nightmare-for-suella-braverman

Exclusive: In video footage, Bob Stewart MP heard telling Sayed Alwadaei ‘you’re taking money off my country’
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/dec/19/human-rights-activist-complains-to-tory-party-after-mp-tells-him-to-go-back-to-bahrain

Alarming data underlines why workers in England and Wales are taking exceptional step that may have lethal consequences
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/dec/19/nhs-ambulance-strikes-england-wales-patient-safety-risks

The Specials and Fun Boy Three singer has died aged 63. We look back on the life of 2 Tone’s finest
https://www.theguardian.com/music/gallery/2022/dec/20/the-specials-terry-hall-a-life-in-pictures

Disastrous investments in risky commercial projects have left Tory-run authority with a £500m deficit
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/dec/19/thurrock-latest-council-declare-effective-bankruptcy

The home secretary has reaffirmed her commitment to sending people seeking refuge in the UK on a one-way ticket to Rwanda
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/video/2022/dec/19/suella-braverman-says-she-wants-to-deliver-rwanda-deportations-soon-video

The director of the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy confronts Stewart outside a reception hosted by the Bahraini embassy
https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2022/dec/19/go-back-to-bahrain-tory-mp-bob-stewart-tells-human-rights-activist-during-confrontation-video

Evening Standard owner among a series of peers who appear to play a minimal role without a formal leave of absence from Lords
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/dec/19/evgeny-lebedev-house-of-lords-attendance-among-least-active

Having survived a tough childhood in Coventry, Hall became one of pop’s defining voices at the turn of the 80s, chronicling British decline ..
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/dec/19/terry-hall-lead-singer-of-the-specials-dies-aged-63

While high court ruled Home Office policy was legal, judges quashed decisions to forcibly remove eight asylum seekers
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/dec/19/rwanda-policy-judges-found-multiple-flaws-in-individual-cases

One concertgoer claims security guards ‘kettled’ fans into a confined space outside Asake gig
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/dec/18/witnesses-to-brixton-concert-crush-say-many-fans-outside-had-tickets

PSNI believe same two gunmen were responsible for deaths of Mark Hall in December 2021 and Sean Fox in October 2022
https://www.theguardian.com/weather/2022/dec/18/police-connect-separate-murders-of-two-men-in-west-belfast

Elon Musk says he will honour the results of a Twitter poll asking whether the should resign as head of the social media platform
https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2022/dec/19/elon-musk-polls-twitter-users-over-stepping-down-as-ceo-business-live

Draft legislation to be published in spring after public consultation found support for measures
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/dec/19/martyns-law-plans-unveiled-for-counter-terror-rules-for-uk-venues

‘Sudden explosion of billionaire wealth’ at the expense of the rest of society is ‘grossly unjust’, says new report
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/dec/19/call-for-wealth-tax-as-uk-billionaire-numbers-up-by-20-since-pandemic

UK prime minister joins Nordic and Baltic leaders at summit on countering Russian aggression
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/dec/18/rishi-sunak-to-meet-uk-troops-in-estonia-and-attend-baltic-summit-russia

Lorna Tucker says not enough is being done to help Britain’s homeless people, and what is being done is not working
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/dec/18/film-maker-revisits-her-homeless-past-to-show-plight-of-rough-sleepers

Survey identifies slew of problems, with half of lawyers experiencing cases being adjourned because of disrepair
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2022/dec/19/poor-state-english-welsh-courts-worsening-backlog-law-society

Campaigners welcome DfT’s temporary £60m subsidy to cut emissions and congestion, but say it should go further
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2022/dec/19/2-cap-for-many-bus-fares-in-england-expected-to-save-2m-car-journeys

Pressure on roads will be heightened by RMT strike at Network Rail from 6pm on Christmas Eve
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/dec/19/up-to-20m-car-trips-predicted-in-run-up-to-christmas-as-thaw-brings-flood-risk

All along the red wall, those who gave the Conservatives their election victory in 2019 feel betrayed, with some turning to the Reform UK pa..
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/dec/18/anger-brexit-tories-red-wall-conservatives-reform-uk-party-immigration

Government shelves plan to secure long-term contracts because ‘locking in while gas prices are this high doesn’t make sense’
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/dec/17/rishi-sunak-liz-truss-energy-supply-taskforce

Ambulance workers and nurses are taking action in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Here’s what to expect
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/dec/17/nhs-strikes-england-wales-northern-ireland

One wheelchair user reported that pre-booked accessible spaces were filled with luggage and no staff were present
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/dec/17/disabled-passengers-on-avanti-trains-say-they-have-had-to-sit-in-toilets-to-get-seat

Sir John Tomlinson wades into row over cut to English National Opera’s grant as signs indicate Arts Council may review decision
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/dec/18/eno-london-arts-council-grant-england-national-opera

Conservative supporters disillusioned with the lack of a Brexit dividend are unclear what Labour stands for, and the radical right is rising
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/dec/18/labour-voters-tories-failures-conservative-brexit

Doctors warn that some services are ‘close to failure’ as tens of thousands endure delays beyond 13 weeks
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/dec/17/patients-forced-to-wait-months-for-vital-nhs-diagnostic-tests

Newly discovered archive material shows former Beatle was always producers’ choice to sing during credits for Live and Let Die
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/dec/18/live-and-let-die-james-bond-theme-paul-mccartney

Local authority leaseholders have to share costs, have no say over who does the job and can face financial ruin
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/dec/17/artist-fears-he-will-lose-flat-as-lambeth-council-hits-him-with-98000-repair-bill

There is a respectful compromise to be had – but it requires politicians to chose balance over toxicity
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/18/scotland-controversial-proposed-gender-reforms