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…
Libya’s eastern House of Representatives has unanimously ratified a contested maritime boundary agreement with Türkiye, reigniting a long-running dispute over energy rights and jurisdictional claims in the eastern Mediterranean that pits Ankara and Tripoli against Greece, Cyprus, and Egypt. A…
Milan’s centre held for a second consecutive day on Sunday as black-clad assailants clashed with police around the Duomo plaza, looting shops, overturning rubbish bins and hurling bottles at officers — a spectacle that has now drawn the personal attention…
Bereaved families affected by severe delays in civil service pension payments risk incurring an unexpected tax charge through no fault of their own, Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee has warned the government. Under HMRC rules, lump sum pension death benefits paid…
The Annual Trigger Returns The Department for Work and Pensions has formally confirmed that its Cold Weather Payment scheme will resume on 1 November 2026, running through to 31 March 2027. The mechanism is straightforward: when the average temperature in…
What triggered the protests? France experienced one of its most significant outbreaks of civil unrest in recent years over the weekend, as an estimated 550,000 people took to the streets on Saturday to protest against declining public services, deteriorating school…
The Government’s draft legislation on the legacy of the Northern Ireland Troubles is shaping up to be a serious test of Labour’s credibility on veterans’ affairs — and some of its own former ministers are not convinced it passes. Al…
Andy Burnham has put forward plans to extend fixed-penalty fines to bus passengers who play loud music, vape, litter, or engage in threatening behaviour, as part of a broader government effort to improve conditions on public transport. Local authorities would…
In the summer of 2023, as Nottingham reeled from one of the most shocking acts of violence in recent British memory, the families of Barnaby Webber, Grace O’Malley-Kumar, and Ian Coates began the impossible work of grief. What they could…