For decades, the state pension triple lock stood as one of British politics’ most durable and politically untouchable commitments. Introduced under the Coalition Government in 2010, it guaranteed that the state pension would rise each April by whichever was highest…
When diesel crosses £2 a litre, it is no longer merely an inconvenience for motorists — it becomes an existential pressure on the organisations that depend on the road to deliver essential services. That is the reality now confronting charities…
A Verdict Long Overdue The conviction of six people traffickers by a Paris court for the manslaughter of 31 migrants — victims of the worst small-boat disaster ever recorded in the English Channel — represents a meaningful moment of judicial…
Kimberly Guilfoyle, the United States ambassador to Greece appointed by President Donald Trump, allegedly warned a Greek government minister during a dinner in Athens in March that Washington possesses the capacity to bring down “any country we want” — a…
The meeting room in Brussels on Monday carried the familiar weight of institutional caution. European foreign and defence ministers, gathered for a foreign affairs council session, gave their qualified backing to further development of a new protocol designed to coordinate…
The Parole Board’s decision to hold Jon Venables’s latest parole hearing in private is, at its core, a judgement about institutional process prevailing over public sentiment — and, on the evidence available, it is a defensible one. Venables, now 44,…
For three years, diplomats gathered under the auspices of the UN Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons in Geneva had been working, however haltingly, toward an international framework for regulating autonomous weapons systems — the so-called “killer robots” that defence analysts…
The Charity Commission has opened a regulatory compliance case against Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), also known as Doctors Without Borders, following a formal dossier submitted by UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) alleging connections between the charity and proscribed terrorist organisations…
The chamber of the United Nations General Assembly is rarely short of grave warnings, but Ethiopian President Taye Atske Selassie’s address this week carried a particular urgency — one rooted not in rhetoric but in fresh bloodshed unfolding across his…
Florida’s Attorney General, James Uthmeier, has formally called for the dismissal of a history teacher at one of the state’s most academically distinguished schools after she allegedly singled out, labelled, and sought to publicly discredit an eighth-grade student on account…