BP has launched a formal sale process for its UK North Sea business, the company announced on 31 July, marking a potential end to more than sixty years of continuous offshore production by one of the industry’s founding operators in…
A dispute between a women’s advocacy organisation and one of Ireland’s largest community festivals has ended without a court ruling, after both parties reached a settlement on the morning a High Court hearing was due to begin in Belfast. The…
A Mansion’s Long Decline When casino mogul Steve Wynn quietly began shopping his Beverly Hills estate, Villa Lulu, in 2020, he floated an off-market figure of $135 million. That number reflected the confidence of a seller who had spent years…
The central tension in Wales’s second home debate is not, at its core, a moral one. It is a failure of housing supply meeting an excess of fiscal intervention — and the evidence from Gwynedd to Pembrokeshire suggests that punitive…
A Mayor’s Arrest Threat and Its Consequences Benjamin Netanyahu has publicly blamed New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani for stoking the antisemitic climate he believes led to the stabbing of a Jewish man outside a synagogue on the Upper West…
There is something quietly telling about the fact that this is the fourth set of formal allegations brought against TikTok by European regulators in the space of two years. The European Commission’s latest preliminary findings, issued under the Digital Services…
Salman Rushdie took the witness stand in a Buffalo federal courtroom on Thursday, sitting yards from the man who nearly killed him, and described in measured detail the attack that cost him his right eye and came within a millimetre…
When the IMF first structured its 48-month Extended Fund Facility for Ukraine, anti-corruption conditionality sat at the heart of the arrangement. The $8.1 billion programme, negotiated against the backdrop of an active conflict and an economy under severe strain, made…
The NHS’s emergency catch-up programme for the meningitis B vaccine has opened to considerable fanfare and rather less vaccine. Launched on Monday to reach Year 13 students and young people entering full-time residential education this autumn, the initiative was prompted…
A new per-mile charge on electric vehicles is now confirmed, and the numbers are straightforward: drive the national average and you will owe the Treasury £213 a year. Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced at last autumn’s Budget that the Government would…