Andy Burnham, the Mayor of Greater Manchester, declared on Monday that he was “increasingly confident” that PC Andrew Harper’s killers — Albert Bowers and Jessie Cole, jailed for thirteen years in 2020 for manslaughter — would not be released early…
A Company Under Siege Thames Water, Britain’s largest water utility, finds itself at the centre of an intensifying crisis that combines severe financial distress with mounting regulatory and public outrage over sewage discharges. The company carries an estimated £18–19 billion…
Half a million hectares burned. Hundreds of thousands evacuated. A bill approaching £16 billion. Europe’s 2026 wildfire season has moved well beyond seasonal misfortune into something that demands serious institutional reckoning. The conditions that produced this summer’s catastrophe did not…
The Department for Work and Pensions has confirmed that state pensioners whose sole income derives from the basic or new state pension will not be liable for income tax, amid ongoing concern over the freeze on the personal allowance, which…
Passengers travelling on Lumo’s West Coast Main Line services between London Euston and Stirling have been enduring journeys of more than five and a half hours without access to functioning onboard toilet facilities, after the FirstGroup-owned open-access operator acknowledged a…
Britain’s broadcasting regulator Ofcom has made what it describes as “urgent contact” with TikTok following a deeply disturbing livestream in which celebrity blogger Perez Hilton appeared to self-harm on camera, raising immediate and pointed questions about the platform’s capacity —…
HM Revenue and Customs has issued a formal warning to parents of teenagers across the United Kingdom that Child Benefit payments worth up to £1,406.60 per year will cease automatically from 1 September unless eligible households extend their claims before…
A federal court’s decision to certify a class-action lawsuit against Apple over its Photos application’s face-recognition feature represents one of the most consequential privacy litigation risks in American corporate history — and it illustrates, with uncomfortable clarity, the financial exposure…
A Costly Misunderstanding Consider the position of an ordinary saver who, believing they were doing the right thing, moves money between ISA providers without following HMRC’s official transfer process. The intention is entirely reasonable. The consequence, however, is a penalty…
There is something quietly extraordinary about a government agreeing to hand a foreign state £662 million of public money, and then watching that state’s officials announce, with apparent equanimity, that they have no solution to the problem the money was…