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Workers' rights
Labour must ‘stick to its guns’ on UK employment rights bill, says TUC chief

In new year message, Paul Nowak says ministers must resist pressure from business groups to water down plans

Reform UK
Farage threatens action over Badenoch ‘fake’ membership data claim

Donald Trump
Maga v Musk: Trump camp divided in bitter fight over immigration policy

Tony Blair
Blair proposed SDLP Irish nationalists support England at World Cup, papers show

Radio
Tidy! Ruth Jones to read Shipping Forecast as Nessa to mark centenary

Best of 2024

Music
The 50 best albums of 2024

Topped with Charli xcx’s swaggering yet vulnerable Brat, here are the year’s finest LPs as decided by 26 Guardian music writers

Film
The 50 best films of 2024 in the UK

Podcasts
The 20 best podcasts of 2024

Television
The 50 best TV shows of 2024

In focus

Ukraine war briefing
‘Human wave’ of North Korean troops being sent to their deaths by Russia, says US

Kyiv reports heavy casualties among Pyongyang’s soldiers in Russia while Washington accuses generals of seeing the troops as ‘expendable’. What we know on day 1,039

Guardian and Observer charity appeal
‘Bullets can make a real mess of bones’: the hospital where the war wounded have their lives put together again

State of disrepair
‘Our school has been homeless for two years’: a rotting Cumbria school counts the cost

Spotlight

Money
New year finances: a month-by-month UK guide to sorting out your money

Blind date
Blind date: ‘The glare of the Christmas lights made his eyes look really beautiful and I just had to tell him’

Australia
Remembering Kevin Brennan: teenage master of Bondi’s waves but a drug-fuelled disaster on land

Opinion

McCarthyism stalked my family. Its paranoia contains a lesson for Trump’s second term

Richard Sennett

Across the west, the centre right is collapsing – and with it, any notion of what is ‘too extreme’

Owen Jones

Potholes everywhere, shoplifters rampant – today’s Britain looks as broken as it feels

Simon Jenkins

Sport

Football
Arsenal 1-0 Ipswich: Havertz lifts hosts to second to show there is life without Saka

Cricket
Reddy century leads India fightback as Australia strike late

Fernandes and the problem of a captain who keeps seeing red

Simon Burnton

Podcast

Today in Focus
Revisited: The man who fell to Earth – podcast

Twenty-three years after Mohammed Ayaz fell from the wheel bay of a plane coming in to land at Heathrow, his brother visits the car park where the body was found. Esther Addley reports

Business

Retail industry
Number of UK retailers on brink of collapse soars by 25%

Hospitality
‘It’s not just a dancefloor’: the precipitous decline of UK nightclubs

In pictures

Art and design
The week around the world in 20 pictures

The week in wildlife
A seasonal robin and newborn lion cubs in Bedfordshire

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