Keir Starmer could face rising pressure to climb down on farm inheritance tax London Letter: Economic disquiet among farmers and in rural communities has been brewing since long before the tax changesWed Feb 12 2025 - 05:00
SNP stages unlikely revival as Scottish Labour support collapsesLabour’s Anas Sarwar once seemed certain to be Scotland’s next first minister but SNP leader John Swinney may yet hang onFri Feb 07 2025 - 15:00
Tory faithful still wistful for Margaret Thatcher 50 years after she became leader Conservative Party grandees gathered in central London for a night of reflection on Thatcher's early years as leaderWed Feb 05 2025 - 19:21
St Brigid, the matron saint of British journalismRecent feast day of Irish saint a reminder of the challenges women face in British journalism, and also their growing powerWed Feb 05 2025 - 05:00
Lucy Letby case: Politicians, journalists and now doctors are weighing in behind imprisoned nurseRetired neonatal expert who chaired committee of 14 global experts who reviewed the Letby medical evidence said ‘we did not find any murder’Tue Feb 04 2025 - 16:57
BBC World Service: China and Russia target Britain’s ‘soft power’ tool The BBC World Service is viewed as a critical British asset in the global information warMon Feb 03 2025 - 06:07
Nicola Sturgeon derides Humza Yousaf’s ‘catastrophic’ handling of Scottish government dealSNP may be back on top of the polls but it can’t escape the internal squabbles of recent yearsFri Jan 31 2025 - 16:47
Mary Robinson criticises Donald Trump’s ‘lies’ on energy policyFormer Irish president tells London audience the new US president’s claims about oil and gas are not trueThu Jan 30 2025 - 15:04
Rachel Reeves: Labour will go ‘further and faster’ in search for growthRyanair’s Michael O’Leary criticises UK chancellor’s plan for Heathrow expansion and says she ‘doesn’t have a clue’Wed Jan 29 2025 - 17:29
London’s ‘toast rack’ Holocaust memorial unites British leaders but divides the cityA Bill to facilitate the building of a controversial new memorial and education centre is inching its way through parliament Wed Jan 29 2025 - 05:00
‘I just called ... to say ... I love you?’: Keir Starmer speaks to Donald Trump in advance of meeting expected soonBritain’s prime minister balances wooing the US president a his government also covets closer trade ties with ChinaMon Jan 27 2025 - 18:07
Tommy Robinson and Conor McGregor find common causeEnglish nationalism has rarely been more interested in IrelandWed Jan 22 2025 - 05:00
Keir Starmer holds fast as he insists ‘law forbade’ him from saying more about the Southport stabbingsBritain’s prime minister tries to get ahead of criticism of handling of the shocking case that sparked the UK’s summer riotsTue Jan 21 2025 - 12:22
Right-wing figures jockey to be UK’s Trump whisperer as Keir Starmer is left to watch from afarNigel Farage has the best claim to personify Britain’s “special relationship” with Trump’s USMon Jan 20 2025 - 21:14
Chris Packham: ‘I was a very angry young man, confused because of my undiagnosed autism. It had an enormous impact on my life’British environmentalist and BBC presenter Chris Packham on battling to save the planet, standing up to his enemies, and how his autism made him hate himselfSun Jan 19 2025 - 06:00
MPs’ bar at House of Commons shut after woman’s drink spiking allegationStrangers bar has been linked to a number of drink-fuelled controversies and harassment allegationsFri Jan 17 2025 - 16:48
Aids activist Bernárd Lynch now has ‘permission to drive sheep over London Bridge’ as he receives Freedom of the CityClare man, who famously advocated for Aids sufferers in New York in the 1980s before coming to London about 30 years ago, honoured at event on FridayFri Jan 17 2025 - 15:49
Tulip Siddiq’s resignation raises questions as to why Keir Starmer appointed her in the first placeSiddiq quit as anti-corruption minister in Labour government after being named in a corruption inquiry in BangladeshWed Jan 15 2025 - 18:16
Bradford works to shake off its ‘grooming gangs’ reputationYorkshire city, perennially overshadowed by its neighbour Leeds, is the UK’s City of Culture for 2025Wed Jan 15 2025 - 05:00
Rachel Reeves fends off comparisons with Liz Truss as Tories call for the chancellor to be sackedThe Daily Star is considering going vegetable shopping once againWed Jan 15 2025 - 05:00
Keir Starmer defends beleaguered chancellor Rachel Reeves but promises to be ‘ruthless’Britain’s first woman chancellor of the exchequer is under pressure as investors fret over UK economyMon Jan 13 2025 - 17:30
UK government wavering over another national inquiry into child abuse by grooming gangsSafeguarding minister Jess Phillips suggests government might have a rethink if victims’ groups demand an inquiryWed Jan 08 2025 - 15:58
‘It’s like Wall Street in the 1980s’: consolidation of Westminster’s clerical rag trade raises the spirits of some‘I’m A Celebrity’ jungle priest Richard Coles had some juicy sartorial gossip for the new yearWed Jan 08 2025 - 05:00
Elon Musk fights Battle of Britain on two fronts as he clashes with Nigel Farage and Keir StarmerBillionaire’s latest interventions in UK politics are ostensibly about Britain’s handling of child abuse grooming gangsMon Jan 06 2025 - 18:12
The Bionic Baron who staged a comeback after quadruple amputation in one of Westminster’s moments of the yearCraig Mackinlay was an MP who almost died from sepsis and now he sits in the House of LordsFri Dec 27 2024 - 11:00
How Britain’s prison system is teetering on the brink of collapseNew Labour government was rocked in autumn by images of unexpectedly-freed criminals popping champagne corks in prison car parksWed Dec 25 2024 - 11:00
Older Irish people in London: ‘It is so important to have something to get people out of the house. It breaks down the loneliness’The networks of ‘joy and friendship’ helping the older Irish community in LondonTue Dec 24 2024 - 06:00
Shocking crimes, royal illness and Labour’s landslide: The eight big moments that defined 2024 for BritainWinds of change howled across Britain in a year when a Labour election victory ended 14 years of Tory ruleSat Dec 21 2024 - 06:00
Pub staff struggled to keep up with giddy Shamrock Rovers fans who enjoyed every moment of Chelsea tripAbout 2,000 Shamrock Rovers fans marched to Stamford Bridge, equating to about 14,000 internally concealed pints of beerFri Dec 20 2024 - 14:17
Corkman leading €11bn development of Battersea Power Station in London: ‘We’ve created a place to live, work and play’ Donagh O’Sullivan is in charge of the redevelopment of one of the British capital’s most iconic structuresFri Dec 20 2024 - 06:00
London pubs turn to ration cards amid Guinness shortageForced to improvise after its supply of Guinness dropped, at least one London pub didn’t lose it headWed Dec 18 2024 - 05:00
Former Tory minister Steve Baker: ‘Ireland has been treated badly by the UK. It’s f**king shaming’Emotional former Tory minister for Northern Ireland Steve Baker 'embarrassed Ireland was treated the way it was by the United Kingdom’Sat Dec 14 2024 - 06:00
‘You want peace in the Middle East? I don’t feel there is peace here in Britain’Westminster MPs hear from Israeli and Palestinian voices on what more Britain can do to help bring about peaceFri Dec 13 2024 - 16:17
A van and a plan: House and furniture hunting in London is not for the faint of heartLondon Letter: The rapacious property market here makes Dublin’s seem quaintWed Dec 11 2024 - 05:00
Britain pauses Syrian asylum decision process after fall of AssadFocus will be reflection on ‘diplomatic relations with Syria’ and a cautious observation of Hayat Tahrir al-ShamMon Dec 09 2024 - 19:38
‘Don’t take Fine Gael for granted’: Simon Harris on Government formation talks with Fianna FáilTaoiseach says his party’s mandate must be respected, while Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin also raises the issue of Rockall in Scotland, where both leaders were attending a British-Irish summitFri Dec 06 2024 - 14:55
SNP lays traps for Labour in Scotland’s draft budgetScottish government pledges to abolish in Scotland the two-child benefit cap that the UK Labour government has so far resisted scrappingWed Dec 04 2024 - 17:18
Louise Haigh a casualty of the Westminster power machine Sheffield MP and UK transport secretary was destined to implement a core Labour policy by nationalising railways but she quit suddenly last weekWed Dec 04 2024 - 05:00
Downing Street comments on Gregg Wallace allegations indicative of pressure on BBCPrime minister’s office has criticised Wallace, presenter of popular cookery show MasterchefMon Dec 02 2024 - 20:09
MPs vote to give terminally ill in England and Wales the right to assisted deathBill on assisted dying passes in House of Commons by wider margin than anticipatedFri Nov 29 2024 - 18:32
UK’s transport secretary quits government over conviction relating to stolen mobile phone reportLouise Haigh has resigned from cabinet barely five months after the electionFri Nov 29 2024 - 18:22
‘I don’t know where I am going’: Manchester police criticised for mass expulsion of Traveller youths on trainsInvestigation into allegations of ‘racial profiling’ after police used draconian powers to disperse Traveller and Gypsy teenagers visiting Christmas marketsFri Nov 29 2024 - 16:00
Britain’s heritage under threat from vandals targeting landmark sitesShrewsbury’s links with A Christmas Carol targeted in latest attack that is part of an ugly trendWed Nov 27 2024 - 04:48
‘Unspeakable’ Birmingham pub bombings remembered 50 years onExplosions, widely blamed on the IRA, killed 21 people in the city in November 1974Thu Nov 21 2024 - 18:48
Ire of farmers and pensioners mounts as British Labour faces possibility of new ‘winter of discontent’Protest this week by farmers over inheritance tax raid sounds alarm bells for Labour’s rural prospectsWed Nov 20 2024 - 19:14
Complexities of immigrant life captured in museum’s Irish exhibition, and in row over slave trader at the doorLondon’s Museum of the Home has a popular Irish rooms exhibit inside, and an unpopular statue outsideWed Nov 20 2024 - 05:00
Vote on assisted dying Bill due to be a cliffhanger as Britain’s Labour opposition mountsWes Streeting, health secretary and potential future Labour leader, is against the planFri Nov 15 2024 - 15:25
Just Eat guy was on the clock and no war memorial service was going to stop himLondon Letter: Remembrance Sunday is when elites pay respects at the Cenotaph but Armistice Day is differentWed Nov 13 2024 - 05:00
David Lammy and Donald Trump: Winner winner, chicken dinner?Britain’s foreign secretary believes the US president-elect is in a forgiving mood over past tauntsFri Nov 08 2024 - 18:19
Trumpian vibe as Kemi Badenoch faces Keir Starmer in House of CommonsNew Tory leader Kemi Badenoch faces Labour prime minister Keir Starmer in the Commons for the first timeWed Nov 06 2024 - 19:36
