The UK government has announced it will temporarily suspend applications from registered refugees to bring family members into the country in order to give the government time to toughen the rules. Home secretary Yvette Cooper said their asylum system needed “substantial reforms” as she laid out the plans to reduce record numbers of migrants arriving…
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday appointed economist and former Columbia University president Minouche Shafik as his chief economic adviser. It’s part of a staff shakeup aimed at strengthening the government’s response to a sluggish economy and a heated political debate over immigration. Starmer’s center-left Labour Party government has struggled to…
Published on Aug 31, 2025 10:20 pm IST Britain is burning with anger as “Stop the Boats” protests sweep across Epping, Liverpool, Bristol, and beyond. Prime Minister Keir Starmer faces a storm as anti-migrant demonstrations escalate following a hotel assault case involving an asylum seeker. With over 28,000 migrants arriving this year and hotel housing…
Kemi Badenoch, leader of the U.K.’s beleaguered opposition Conservative Party, no longer has faith in the existence of a higher power, she told the BBC in a recent interview. Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer is also a nonbeliever, meaning that perhaps for the first time in British political history, both the nation’s premier and the…
Is Sally Rooney a folk hero? The British media seems determined to turn her into one. It makes sense on one level. She has already been seen with an owl. Maybe someone should check if the beautiful bird from that photograph of the writer is also a “supporter of terror” under UK law. You can…
But the page, which was accused at the time of distorting stories to go viral, was permanently banned in January 2022 after Twitter, which had stricter rules pre-Musk, said it violated rules on “manipulation and spam.” Politics For All’s demise created a gap in the market for something new, targeting audiences wanting concise updates. Nash-Gardner…
Six European leaders joined Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy for a briefing after Donald Trump’s recent summit with Vladimir Putin Compiled by Michael Williams Main image: Donald Trump receives Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House almost six months after their disastrous previous meeting there. Photograph: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters Mon 18 Aug 2025 23.36 BST Last modified on Mon 18…
The recovery in British living standards is coming to an end, a potential moment of peril for Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who has hailed the recent strength of wage growth as evidence that he’s making “working people” better off. When Keir Starmer took office in July 2024, pay was rising at well over 5% a…
U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 28, 2025. Nathan Howard | Reuters LONDON — European stocks opened in mixed territory on Monday as traders look ahead to a meeting between regional leaders and U.S. President Donald Trump to discuss Ukraine. The pan-European Stoxx…
According to Zelenskyy, Russia has failed to conquer the Donetsk region of Eastern Ukraine, which Moscow has pushed to control since 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin “has been unable to take it for 12 years, and the constitution of Ukraine makes it impossible … to give up territory or trade land,” Zelenskyy said. The New…