The events that gave rise to the current trial at Bristol Crown Court trace back to 2018, when Pc Fiona Anderson, a serving officer with Devon and Cornwall Police based in Exeter, travelled to Cardiff while off duty. It was…
The number of unauthorised drone incidents recorded at or near Ministry of Defence installations has risen dramatically over the past three years, reaching approximately 340 in the twelve months to August 2026. The trajectory is unambiguous: 126 incidents in 2024,…
Picture a typical school day for a British child in 2025: a morning alarm followed by a scroll through a phone, a car journey to school, six or seven hours in a classroom, another car journey home, and an evening…
There is something telling about the moment when a bureaucratic institution reaches for the language of pain. Andrius Kubilius, the European Commissioner for Defence, did precisely that when he told Euronews that Europe can respond to Russian hybrid provocations in…
A Redistribution With Consequences The Labour government’s Fair Funding reforms were always going to produce winners and losers. What is now becoming clear, with uncomfortable precision, is just how steep the losses will be for a cluster of London boroughs…
The Houthis are advancing, the Red Sea is growing more dangerous, and the international community is running short of credible responses. That, in essence, is the assessment of Baraa Shiban, Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute and a…
Hastings Borough Council has approved a modest but revealing extension to its Dog Control Public Space Protection Order: from November, anyone in charge of a dog in the borough will be expected to carry a suitable bag, receptacle or other…
The case for a more robust regulatory framework around Royal Mail is becoming difficult to ignore. With over 100 MPs now formally urging Ofcom to take tougher action over persistent delivery failures, the central question is no longer whether Royal…
More than 1.1 million pensioners in the United Kingdom may be failing to claim Attendance Allowance, a non-means-tested benefit worth up to £5,959.20 per year, according to estimates published by personal finance commentator Martin Lewis and his team in conjunction…
Britain cannot indefinitely sustain a fiscal settlement that subordinates national security to welfare expenditure — and Kemi Badenoch has now said so plainly. In a significant statement of Conservative economic and defence policy, the party leader has set out a…