1+ hour, 8+ min ago   (726+ words) Andy Burnham has enjoyed a honeymoon first month as UK leader, but the hard trade-offs involved in governing are about to get real for the prime minister as parliament returns from its summer break in the coming days. Since succeeding…...

7+ hour, 52+ min ago   (245+ words) The pressures on any modern-day chancellor are notorious and real. And in the case of the incumbent, John Healey, they are specific and career-threatening. Where can all this extra cash be found? One possibility under consideration at the Treasury is…...

7+ hour, 16+ min ago   (399+ words) The deaths of two people in Pennsylvania from what officials said were "measles-associated" causes have become a high-profile political battle between Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro and health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., turning a local public health issue into a debate…...

14+ hour, 44+ min ago   (668+ words) No country has ever managed to make a wealth tax work. Let me repeat that. No country. Ever. Yet this does not stop lots of people proposing the wretched idea, including Labour and Green politicians, trade unions, Leftist think-tanks, charities…...

8+ hour, 18+ min ago   (986+ words) Jon Ronson and I were friends for 25 years. In 2008, I got him on Twitter, telling him it was a utopia where people played hashtag games and got stuck in lifts. I invited him to sit in on recordings of Father…...

14+ hour, 53+ min ago   (190+ words) The Duke of Sussex, 41, is no longer a trustee of African Parks, which in May 2025 acknowledged that its rangers were involved in "human rights abuses" at a national park in the Republic of Congo. Harry first partnered with the charity…...

8+ hour, 13+ min ago   (249+ words) Yahoo News UK Here's a look at some of the deadliest attacks on the capital this year. Aug. 29, Myla, at least 37 people killed The attack struck a warehouse that Ukrainian authorities say may have been illegally storing munitions, causing a…...

8+ hour, 39+ min ago   (349+ words) President Donald Trump's executive order designating Lake America the new name for Lake Ontario, originally an Iroquoian word, has sparked protests from indigenous leaders in the United States and Canada. Trump on Aug. 27 directed officials to make the change amid…...

18+ hour, 1+ min ago   (42+ words) Yahoo News UK A Russian drone strike triggered a major fire and explosions at a warehouse on the outskirts of Ukraine's capital Kyiv, forcing hundreds to evacuate the region, authorities said early Saturday....

13+ hour, 2+ min ago   (677+ words) In a move that echoes the Chagos scandal, the Burnham Government is preparing to take action against the interests of the British public, its allies, and Western liberal democratic values, all in the name of international law. Burnham is threatening…...