This was the year of Taylor Swift. The same could have been said of 2023 – and, arguably, pretty much every year in the past decade – yet 2024 brought a new dimension to her dominance.
Dozens of suspected migrants were brought ashore in Dover on an RNLI Dungeness lifeboat. On Boxing Day, 407 people crossed the channel in small boats, as figures confirmed more than 150,000 made the ...