A Deliberate Divergence from Brussels Britain has formally rejected European Union pressure to impose punitive tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, marking a significant and deliberate divergence in trade policy at a moment when both sides are negotiating the terms of…
The BBC’s director-general has moved to contain the fallout from a decision to abandon plans for a bespoke Archers recording studio at its new Birmingham headquarters, insisting that options to keep the production in the West Midlands remain very much…
A Romanian Member of the European Parliament has issued a stark warning that European nations must confront the growing probability of their citizens becoming casualties in the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, a prospect that carries profound implications for…
Three hundred scientists. Thirty-two countries. One urgent warning about the systems their own field has built. The alarm did not arrive without precedent. For months, researchers at leading universities and institutes had watched a succession of incidents in which AI…
A government scheme to ease dangerous overcrowding in England’s prisons is accelerating — and the early signs are not encouraging. Approximately 650 prisoners were released across England on Tuesday as part of the second phase of an early-release programme that…
Whitbread: More Rooms Sold, Less Money Made Rising costs and a sweeping corporate overhaul have punished Whitbread’s bottom line. The Premier Inn owner posted a 62 per cent collapse in pre-tax profits to £109 million for the six months ending…
The hearing room in Eastleigh, Hampshire, was not the setting Scott Chilton had anticipated for the final chapter of a policing career that had reached its apex as chief constable of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight Constabulary. He did…
New Enforcement Regime Takes Effect The Department for Work and Pensions has brought into force sweeping new enforcement powers allowing it to suspend the driving licences of benefit claimants who persistently refuse to repay debts or engage with departmental officials.…
Thailand will host the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Annual Meetings in Bangkok from October 12 to 18, drawing more than 15,000 delegates from 191 countries to address pressing questions of global economic stability, financial governance and development policy.…
At around three o’clock on a quiet north London morning, the returning officer at the Holborn and St Pancras by-election declared Labour’s Sagal Abdi-Wali the winner — and with that, the seat once held by Sir Keir Starmer passed, unremarkably…