12+ hour, 19+ min ago   (402+ words) A previously top secret document has revealed "strong indications" that Osama bin Laden wanted to attack Britain on its own soil years before 9/11. Newly declassified presidential memos released by CIA director John Ratcliffe to mark the 25th anniversary of the September…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (402+ words) Miliband's decision to ban trade with illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank has triggered a furious diplomatic row with Benjamin Netanyahu's government, and risks worsening relations with Donald Trump's US. Critics have called the sanctions "performative", warning they could…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (436+ words) Let’s be clear, Miliband has failed at everything he has ever done. Sometimes he has failed quietly and slunk away, sometimes he has failed spectacularly in the full glare of the media, like crashing thew 2015 General Election. But always, always,…...

6+ day, 12+ hour ago   (306+ words) Kemi’s appointment of Andrew Griffith is a masterstroke and with other recent appointments she has put her party on a general election footing. It is clear to see that Labour is rattled by the new Shadow Chancellor’s appointment and they…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (384+ words) Tory leader Kemi Badenoch went relatively easy on him. She won’t today, when he takes his first Parliamentary Questions. It’s already clear he hasn’t got the answer to the country’s problems. As debt and borrowing costs rocket, all he wants…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (859+ words) Labour has been accused of a “dereliction of duty” after claiming criminals serving a third of their sentence behind bars will be “business as usual”. Justice Secretary Alex Norris apologised to victims for the chaos surrounding the Government’s early release…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (311+ words) Despite that, Burnham seems oblivious. He’s already pledged taxpayer money to cut electricity bills, cap bus fares, save pubs and clubs, end rough sleeping and improve West Midlands buses. He’s got bigger plans too, including a council housebuilding boom and…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (285+ words) But the controversy rages on. The 2026 Sentencing Act, that starts tomorrow, is one of the biggest acts of self harm a government has ever inflicted upon its citizens. Since September 2024 Labour has already released more than 70,000 prisoners early – that’s the…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (468+ words) When Labour took power in July 2024, Ofgem’s energy price cap was £1,568 a year. Today it stands at £1,663, some £95 more. In practice, it’s higher. Starmer’s government shifted around £150 of clean-energy policy costs from energy bills onto general taxation. Most of us…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (934+ words) Richard Tice is excited. Reform UK activists from across the country are about to converge in Birmingham for the party’s “biggest conference ever”. “This is huge,” he says – but his blue eyes light up even brighter when he sets out…...