🔺 EXCLUSIVE: How did a secret mission in Syria lead to a crisis within Britain’s special forces? Insight, The Sunday Times investigations team, can reveal the full story behind an SAS operation in Syria in 2022 — and its aftermath thetimes.com/uk/defence/arti…

Frontrunner to host the 2035 World Cup wants its sides in the URC and European cup competitions to become “competitive by playing at the maximum level’ thetimes.com/sport/rugby-uni…

John Healey wants to prioritise growth and business investment over tax rises, despite pressure from senior Labour figures to increase levies on wealth thetimes.com/uk/politics/art…

Violent unrest is led by a red-green alliance of far left and Islamists — and they won’t stop at France thetimes.com/comment/columni…

Times editors select their favourite photographs, including fiesta fireworks, a locomotive steaming through Sussex and Richard E Grant with his bust thetimes.com/uk/photography-…

Richard Holden’s bill would close a loophole affecting a handful of polygamous households and clarify the rules on overseas marriages between close relatives thetimes.com/uk/politics/art…

Disciplinary council fails to specify if ban will be backdated after 41-year-old exited camp having been left on the bench in row with head coach Jorge Jesus thetimes.com/sport/football/…

Today, on episode six of the Trial of Russell Brand podcast, Woman 3 took the stand. She alleges Brand "attacked" her in a toilet cubicle in 2004, telling her “don’t be a spoilsport.”⁠ ⁠ Russell Brand denies all allegations.⁠ ⁠ 🔗 Tap the link to watch or listen to The Trial of Russell Brand every weekday on Apple Podcasts, YouTube or listen on Spotify ⬇️ podfollow.com/brand-trial/ep…

The third complainant in the comedian’s trial alleges that he assaulted her in a Soho lavatory in 2004, then called her a spoilsport. He denies all the charges thetimes.com/uk/crime/articl…

Use frozen Russian assets to support Ukraine, Ed Miliband tells EU thetimes.com/uk/politics/art…

Records show a mafia-linked drug runner had ‘blood on his hands’ on the night of the 1994 double murder, but the evidence was never presented at trial thetimes.com/us/news-today/a…

From a meeting on a park bench to open-source intelligence and eyewitness statements, this is how the investigation unfolded thetimes.com/video/news-vide…

The alleged kidnapper is said to have escaped justice while six co-conspirators went to jail, but his brother’s former fiancée helped to unravel the deception thetimes.com/world/asia/arti…

An onion-chewing villain has returned to Esslingen after centuries in exile, triggering petitions, death threats — and an unlikely defence from the church thetimes.com/world/europe/ar…

As Ed Davey faced revolt, the deputy leader Daisy Cooper took the stage. Was she about to bring down her boss? Not quite thetimes.com/uk/politics/art…

Xi’s best chance of securing the island may be while Trump is in office. The global impact would be worse than Covid thetimes.com/comment/columni…

Nearly 200 learning institutions received an email threat in Glasgow alone, signed off with an Islamic phrase, claiming an explosive device was in the building thetimes.com/uk/scotland/art…

Martin Gallacher, who was given an award for his role as a computing teacher at Paisley Grammar School, is said to have preyed on vulnerable boys thetimes.com/uk/scotland/art…

How much is Britain spending on the war in Ukraine? Britain may not be Ukraine’s biggest donor – but it has often been the first. According to a government factsheet, Britain has committed £25bn to Ukraine. But not all of that £25bn is military spending. There is £1.5bn in humanitarian aid programmes, £4.1bn in loan guarantees, and another £3.5bn in export finance: effectively a credit card that allows Ukraine to buy British goods, which it must repay. Strip those away, and we are left with £16bn in military support, of which £14bn has been allocated. But some of this money never leaves Britain. 🔗 Tap the link to read the full story by @TomHCalver and @benrileysmith ⬇️ thetimes.com/uk/politics/art…

Lender’s shares fall after reports it may have understated the risks posed by financial derivatives used to fund private credit lending thetimes.com/business/compan…