India’s strategic autonomy faces its biggest test at the BRICS summitAs New Delhi hosts the 18th BRICS summit on 12–13 September, India’s foreign policy posture deserves particularly close scrutiny. The gathering comes at a moment of exceptional geopolitical strain: the…
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…
A registered nurse has been handed a 12-month suspension by a Nursing and Midwifery Council panel after it found she attended a care home shift in a state of severe intoxication, placing vulnerable residents at material risk of harm. The…
Warren Stephens, Donald Trump’s ambassador to the United Kingdom, laid a white floral wreath at the September 11th Memorial Garden in Grosvenor Square on Friday, honouring the 67 British citizens killed in the attacks a quarter-century ago. The gesture was…
Borough Market, one of London’s oldest and most celebrated trading institutions, finds itself at the centre of an uncomfortable public dispute after refusing to renew the lease of Bread Ahead, a bakery that has spent thirteen years growing from a…
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…
A New Oil Province Emerges Russia has begun shipping crude from the Arctic. That single fact carries consequences that will ripple through energy markets for decades. On 6 September, President Vladimir Putin formally launched operations at Vostok Oil, Rosneft’s flagship…
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…
A field with no approved pharmacological treatments has acquired a credible new candidate. Research published in Communications Biology presents the first experimental evidence that psilocybin may exert therapeutic effects following repetitive mild traumatic brain injury (rmTBI), a condition affecting millions…
A Structure Gone, a Symbol With It The East Wing of the White House no longer stands. Demolished in the autumn of 2025 on the orders of President Donald Trump, the 123-year-old structure has been cleared to make way for…