A New Prime Minister, an Old Problem Andy Burnham opened his first Cabinet meeting as Prime Minister with a solemn appeal for loyalty and a pledge to lead what he called a “one-team approach.” The irony was not lost on…
The NHS’s emergency catch-up programme for the meningitis B vaccine has opened to considerable fanfare and rather less vaccine. Launched on Monday to reach Year 13 students and young people entering full-time residential education this autumn, the initiative was prompted…
A new per-mile charge on electric vehicles is now confirmed, and the numbers are straightforward: drive the national average and you will owe the Treasury £213 a year. Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced at last autumn’s Budget that the Government would…
The numbers are striking enough on their own. Since Boris Johnson’s government in 2019–20, the salary bill for special advisers in Whitehall has risen from £6.9 million to £12.4 million in the most recent financial year — a near-doubling that…
They operated from bedrooms in east London and the West Midlands, yet between them they brought one of the world’s most complex urban transit networks to its knees. Thalha Jubair, 20, and Owen Flowers, 18, were sentenced this week to…
What makes this episode particularly consequential is not merely the gravity of the individual case, but the institutional implications that flow from Sir Brian’s finding of systemic rather than isolated failure. A security service that presents false evidence to courts,…
The declassification of a long-concealed internal memorandum has reopened one of the most troubling chapters in British intelligence history: the handling of Freddie Scappaticci, widely believed to be the double agent codenamed Stakeknife, and the extraordinary lengths to which MI5…
There is something quietly alarming about the trajectory of British political finance, and the alarm grows louder the more closely one examines the numbers. A decade ago, donations of £1 million or more from companies or individuals accounted for just…
A Preventable Disease Returns An adult has died of measles in the United Kingdom. Health officials confirmed the fatality, noting the patient had an underlying immunological problem. The death follows the loss of two children in England to the same…
The town of Grantham, Lincolnshire — birthplace of Margaret Thatcher and home to roughly 45,000 residents — has become an instructive case study in the practical tensions generated by the Government’s asylum dispersal policy. Seventy properties across the South Kesteven…