Russia’s Medvedev threatens to turn Kyiv into ‘giant melted spot’
UK and US are deliberating giving Kyiv permission to use Western weapons against targets deep inside Russia.
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Cheer up, Keir! UK’s Starmer told to lighten up
Elected on a landslide two months ago, the new British PM ought to be on top of the world. Instead his glumness is beginning to grate.
Keir Starmer’s plan to tackle the far right? Fill some potholes.
Labour wants to show government can work after a wave of social unrest.
How the Tory election campaign melted down in six disastrous weeks
Rishi Sunak played a bad hand appallingly — and paid a terrible price.
UK election: Britain goes to the polls — latest updates
Voting begins in the 2024 general election.
What Nigel Farage learned from the American right
The U.K. Brexit leader hopes to emulate his friend Donald Trump’s destruction of the center right.
Sunak protection cop arrested over alleged bets on UK election date
Met Police says officer in question has been ‘removed from operational duties.’
UK Green Party snaps at Labour heels from the left
The Greens’ election manifesto is packed with policies designed to appeal to left-leaning voters disaffected with the Labour Party.
Neue EU-Strategie für Verteidigung
DIE TOP-THEMEN — Strategie für die kommenden fünf Jahre: Wie die EU-Chefs die gemeinsame Verteidigung ausbauen wollen, geht aus einem noch unveröffentlichten Entwurf der Strategieagenda hervor. POLITICO kennt die Details. — Rechtsaußen-Fraktion wirft AfD raus: Der Skandal um ihren Spitzenkandidaten Maximilian Krah kostet die Partei ihre Sitze in der ID-Fraktion. Der AfD gehen damit voraussichtlich […]
Infected blood: UK apologizes for decades-long healthcare scandal
A public inquiry found that the infected blood scandal could have largely been avoided
Inside the Westminster honey trap scandal
Presented by Lloyds.
Court testimony indicates Jim Biden was in business with ‘members of the Qatari government’
The alleged arrangements would be some of the closest known links between a Biden relative and a foreign government.
Tory star Kemi Badenoch blasts David Cameron’s Brexit ‘dereliction of duty’
The business secretary continues the Conservative forever war on Brexit.
‘Ban them until we know they’re safe’: Dutch flower growers urged to stop using pesticides
Organic float at annual flower parade a sign of changing times amid concerns over chemicals’ link to neurological disordersFlower farmer John Huiberts stands next to a flamingo made of thousands of organic pink hyacinths. At the annual BloemenCorso, or…
On holiday with Europe’s right-wingers
Hundreds of European conservatives gathered in Cyprus for a “cultural weekend” that mixed policy discussions, networking and time away from the bureaucratic machine.
UK urged to stop selling weapons to Israel after killing of aid workers
The deaths of three British aid workers in Gaza prompted calls to halt exports.
Is the UK election already over?
With the polls stubbornly refusing to turn, is there anything Rishi Sunak can do to move the dial and avoid electoral wipeout?
Ulysses’ Molly Bloom to be brought to life in video at Derry festival
Fiona Shaw, Cush Jumbo, Imelda Staunton and Miriam Margolyes to enact parts of novel’s concluding monologue in The Molly FilmsIt is arguably the most staggering piece of writing in James Joyce’s masterpiece Ulysses, stretching over 60 pages and contain…
Bloom study lauds Left’s environmental record, lambasts right, centre in European Parliament
Leftists in the European Parliament claimed the top spot in the ranking of political groups’ environmental performance published by the French environmental association Bloom on Wednesday (March 20), with those on the right relegated to the bottom of t…