Cash for places: The backdoor for overseas students into Britain's top universities
While UK students need straight As to get onto prestigious Russell Group degree courses, their international classmates can buy their way in through secret routes. An undercover Sunday Times investiga...
30 Jan 202429min
Inside California's ‘orgasm commune’
OneTaste, the organisation behind the practice 'orgasmic meditation', was hailed as visionary at its peak. Since then, its leader, Nicole Daedone, has been arrested by the FBI on forced labour charges...
29 Jan 202437min
Why the super-rich are paying less tax
A Russian-born trader and a billionaire who admitted to fraud have topped this year’s Sunday Times Tax List, but more than two-thirds of the 100 individuals and families on the list contributed less t...
26 Jan 202423min
Keir Starmer’s Blairite playbook
Sir Keir Starmer is on the pre-campaign trail this week, promoting his five missions that Labour are pledging to achieve if they win the upcoming election. It comes after the most detailed polling yet...
25 Jan 202427min
Why measles cases are surging
UK health chiefs have declared a national incident following a surge in measles cases in the Midlands and London, and the World Health Organisation warned yesterday that it's spreading rapidly across ...
24 Jan 202424min
Battles, beauty salons and lost friends: Eight years in the Middle East
Louise Callaghan has spent most of the last decade reporting from the Middle East. During that time she witnessed a coup attempt in Turkey, the battle to free Mosul, and was the first Western journali...
23 Jan 202424min
Sathnam Sanghera's Empireworld: How British imperialism shaped the globe
Following his seminal book Empireland, Times writer Sathnam Sanghera now looks at the legacy of colonialism for the billions of people Britain once ruled over – from houseplants to the state of democr...
22 Jan 202426min
Death row execution: Alabama's first suffocation
After trying - and failing - to kill him via lethal injection, Alabama is planning to execute death row inmate Kenneth Smith next week using an untested method - nitrogen suffocation. But why are they...
19 Jan 202425min
