In Britain, young people are expected to become independent in their 20s. Yet the UK’s economic model increasingly denies them the means to do so. Analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), commissioned partly for the BBC, finds that the proportion of 25-year-olds living with their parents has risen from 25% in the 1990s…
As authoritarian countries such as Russia, China and Iran are more active in engaging in long-arm strategies to silence their critics in the UK, transnational repression is garnering more attention. It is right that the Metropolitan police and other British law enforcement agencies have specific units and mechanisms to counter it. But it takes more…
Did you get to see the 2024 film Civil War, with its dystopian depiction of a present day USA in the midst of a violent meltdown? What made it such an effective thriller was that it all seemed so frighteningly real. Although the two sides in that civil war were fictitious, it hit a raw…
It’s a story that warms the heart and lifts the soul: last week, Virgin Media was fined a record £28m by Ofcom for repeatedly preventing customers from cancelling their contracts. Its methods were insidious: deliberate call-dropping, unnecessary call transfers and constantly putting customers on hold. For anyone who has experienced the mental anguish of attempting…
Members of the Alderney Horticultural Society have been working to plant and maintain many of the island’s public spaces. The Memorial Garden, hanging baskets along Victoria Street, flower displays at the Channel Islands’ only railway station, and planting schemes at both the harbour and airport are among areas being showcased. During their three-hour visit, judges…
President Donald Trump unexpectedly left Turkey on Wednesday aboard an older Air Force One rather than the newly renovated Qatari-donated jet that brought him there, but later boarded the new plane in Britain for the flight to Washington. The trip to Turkey for the NATO summit, the first international travel for the new plane, took…
One of the biggest rows between Labour backbench MPs and Sir Keir concerned his attempts to cut the welfare bill. Burnham has previously said he wouldn’t be “squeamish” about reducing the bill and his speech promised to find cuts in a “way that is fair and lasting”, adding: “Where young people need mental health support,…
Andy Burnham is not prime minister of the UK – yet. His speech on Monday at the People’s History Museum in Manchester might be read as campaign fodder. But given his lack of opponents, the race to be Labour leader looks already over. If he enters Downing Street, the oration would be the most serious…
The UK experienced its hottest June day on record on Thursday as temperatures hit 36.4C in Somerset. It marked the second time this week the record was broken after temperatures reached 36.1C in Hampshire on Wednesday. As extreme temperatures continue to grip the country, hundreds of schools have been forced to close early, while transport…
London, United Kingdom – Ten years after Britons voted in the Brexit referendum to leave the European Union, opinion polls show the public is still grappling with the consequences of its decision. As Keir Starmer resigns to make way for the seventh British prime minister in a decade, the current political instability has its roots…
