Tourist beaches along the coastline of the United Arab Emirates have been forced to close following a significant oil spill triggered by an Iranian attack on a Panama-flagged tanker near the Strait of Hormuz, an incident that underscores the mounting…
The Metropolitan Police has admitted that it failed to pass a letter containing serious allegations about Thomas Markle, the Duchess of Sussex’s father, to relevant law enforcement agencies overseas, despite receiving the document in 2019. The force confirmed it had…
When Donald Trump left the White House for a campaign rally in Florida on Friday, he paused to tell reporters something he had apparently already told the British Prime Minister directly: that the United Kingdom was on course to become…
What has the US intelligence chief actually said? Jay Clayton, the US Director of National Intelligence, has warned in an unclassified memo sent to Secretary of State Marco Rubio that Iran has “substantially increased efforts to target US personnel” across…
The probation service has run out of housing. That is not a metaphor. Reports emerging this week reveal that at least one probation office distributed roughly 100 tents to homeless ex-prisoners over the past year, only to exhaust its supply…
There is a certain irony in protectionist trade policy quietly retreating before the demands of electoral arithmetic. The Trump administration, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal citing people familiar with the matter, is preparing to lift 50%…
An Act of Desecration and Its Consequences A man in his thirties has been arrested by Essex Police after a video circulated on TikTok appearing to show him spitting repeatedly on a statue of Sir David Amess, the Conservative MP…
The Czech Republic’s governing coalition has pushed forward a sweeping overhaul of public media funding, advancing the legislation through an overnight parliamentary vote in the early hours of Saturday — a procedural move that sent the bill to committees for…
The UK government has approved drilling plans for the Jackdaw gas field in the North Sea, a move framed by Prime Minister Andy Burnham as essential to energy security and the protection of domestic jobs, while the decision has immediately…
A Glasgow Institution Quietly Rewrites Its Galleries Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow has removed several ancient Egyptian artefacts from public display, citing the absence of “informed consent from the deceased individual” as the governing rationale. The removed items…