At 11.00 today, Keir Starmer received a report on Angela Rayner’s behaviour relating to her purchase of a flat in Brighton – by 12.00 she was gone.

When the smears come - and they have already started - the playbook will be familiar: leak a private remark, amplify a fringe tweet, conflate criticism of a government policy with hatred of a people. Those tactics don’t just cost a few votes; they persuade gatekeepers to close ranks. They make broadcasters hunt for scandal rather than substance. They persuade undecided voters that this new force is not just radical but reckless or dangerous.

Unlike nations that grew organically over centuries, Israel was imposed on a complex patchwork of people, cultures, and histories. Borders were drawn not by shared identity but by foreign powers, historical claims, and geopolitical convenience. The result is a state built on tension, not cohesion—a pressure cooker of competing claims that has never been resolved.

On Thursday in a warren of shops and low houses in the occupied West Bank, a Palestinian boy fired wet toilet paper from a toy...

Starmer's social media post “If you’re thinking about coming to the UK illegally — don’t. You will face detention and return.” The line,...

A small act of vandalism in Hereford summed up a bigger fight. People meant to paint England’s St George’s Cross on a Newton Farm...

Far-right activist and convicted criminal Tommy Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, will face no further criminal action after a British Transport Police probe and a CPS review. Detectives gathered CCTV and witness accounts. The man injured was treated in hospital for two days. The CPS told police the legal test to charge was not met.

Nearly one million Israelis took to the streets on Sunday to demand a ceasefire, the return of hostages and an end to a widening...

Back in February, Canadian-American novelist and journalist Omar Al Akkad published a book titled One Day, Everyone WIll Have Always Been Against This. “This” was Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza. That day seems to be getting closer by the minute.

The graffiti was short. It attacked a state and its army. Some locals saw a hate incident. The council said it will not tolerate racism. The police have treated the case as one that could be a hate crime. That choice matters. It raises questions about where law, politics and grief meet.