UK Seven PMs, no votes: Burnham gets Number 10
Britain is about to get its seventh prime minister in a decade with no vote, while the donor network and lobby-linked staff that installed the last one move straight into No 10.
Britain funds the wind farms. SSE and Equinor bank the profits.
Bills rose 13% this month as record renewables came online, but the savings never reached households…
Middle East Israeli strike kills mother, baby in Gaza’s ‘safe zone’
Diana Abu Daraz, 23, and her baby daughter Siwar were killed leaving their tent in Gaza's al-Mawasi…
United States Trump’s $1.4bn crypto haul built on supporters’ $3.8bn losses
A machinist lost $32,700 and a saver lost her $2,000 on Trump's meme coin. The president who sold it to…
UK Ireland, Scotland, Wales war-game UK breakup
Ireland, Scotland and Wales are quietly planning for a Reform UK government, as Belfast counts the cost of a politics…
UK 47,000 patients oppose Palantir NHS data deal
Palantir holds NHS patient records and a 'strategic partnership' with the Israeli military. Andy Burnham won't say what…
UK Farage blocked digital pound for crypto billionaire
A Labour MP has referred Farage to the standards watchdog over lobbying that helped his biggest donor's crypto fortune.
UK The pensions trap: how Britain built a retirement system designed to fail working people
Eighteen million working-age adults are saving nothing into a private pension. Just four percent of the self-employed…
United States US strikes Iran’s Qeshm island
At least five Lebanese civilians killed including child as US expands Iran war, while diplomatic talks remain uncertain…
United States Hundreds of detainees begin hunger strike at US immigration facility over conditions
Hundreds of ICE detainees launch hunger strike over overcrowded cells, inadequate medical care, and indefinite…
United States AIPAC, AI and crypto money are learning to hide in plain sight
How dark money, AIPAC, crypto and AI interests use front groups with misleading names to hide political spending in the…
Middle East Netanyahu’s own spies reject destruction claim
Israeli intelligence refused to back Netanyahu's claim that Iran's nuclear programme was destroyed, a new report…
Middle East Gaza surgeon tortured to death; 75 MPs demand Netanyahu sanctions
75 cross-party MPs want Netanyahu sanctioned over Palestinian torture deaths. Six months on, the Foreign Office still…
Middle East US Strikes Qeshm Island as Missiles Hit Kuwait, Bahrain Bases
Gulf populations caught in exchange as US targets Iran while Tehran hits American bases in Kuwait and Bahrain
Middle East Gaza families flee Israeli 70% land grab
More than 150 families fled with what they could carry in May as Netanyahu orders IDF to expand control to 70% of Gaza.
Economy 185,000 babies taken, no compensation
Starmer apologised for forced adoption that stole 185,000 babies from unmarried mothers. He ruled out paying them a…
Economy Energy bills rising 13% from July: households pay for a war they didn’t start, a market they never chose
Energy bills rise 13% from July as Ofgem confirms £221 annual increase to the price cap. How the Iran war, wholesale…
World Aid cuts by UK, Germany and France could cause 11.5 million preventable deaths, research finds
New research warns aid cuts by UK, Germany and France could cause 11.5 million preventable deaths in low-income…
World Congress unmasks whistleblowers under child-safety rules
A reporter was subpoenaed over her sources as Congress passed an age-verification law that could unmask whistleblowers…
UK Woman strangled; tried by US military
Dr Sarah Steele was strangled by a US airman in Cambridge, but it was a court martial of his colleagues, not a British…
Middle East US Tomahawk killed 120 Iranian schoolchildren
Iran's funeral for Khamenei draws millions as evidence mounts that Washington's assassination gamble killed diplomacy…
UK Four jailed as terrorists; Starmer’s law enables more
TITLE: Four jailed as terrorists, Starmer’s last bill targets journalists # TYPE: analysis # DESK: uk # REGISTER…