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…
As Keir Starmer found, it takes more than words alone to warm a tepid bath. Voters reserve the greatest punishment for the politicians they think acted too little, or too late, to prevent them getting poorer. For Andy Burnham, much will now depend on whether he has got the right ideas, and in John Healey…
During a frozen morning in Arctic Norway, a group of British and Norwegian soldiers padded softly through a snow-blanketed birch forest. They were on a simulated NATO reconnaissance mission, among some 30,000 troops who took part in a drill rehearsing a counter-attack against an invading “enemy to the east,” a euphemism for Russia, Norway’s Arctic…
The six students who spoke to the BBC, including Ma Naw Phaw, each paid about 10,000 euros to BFW — 8,000 euros to learn Finnish and 2,000 euros for visa application fees. Despite receiving admission offers from Finnish institutions, five of them were denied residence permits because of “insufficient financial proof” and “delayed documentation”, the…
NewsFeed Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said he promised his son there would be ‘more destruction’ in Lebanon, as Israel continues bombarding the south. Smotrich’s comments come as he pushes to annex Lebanese territory and redraw Israel’s borders. Published On 5 May 20265 May 2026 Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share googleAdd…
This nation has all the time had a hypocritical relationship with the undocumented employees who preserve America’s agricultural, building and hospitality industries buzzing. On one hand, we merely can not perform with out them. On the opposite, xenophobic politicians whip up concern and distrust of employees on the bottom financial rungs when it serves their…
