Sir Keir Starmer has defended his leadership as he confirmed the government will push ahead with a vote on welfare reforms, in spite of a large number of Labour MPs opposing the measures. Despite efforts to stop a growing rebellion, more than 120 Labour backbenchers have signed an amendment calling for the proposals to be...
What is going on at the DNC? It hasn’t even been a week since they decided to hold a do-over election in an effort to get rid of David Hogg. That was preceded by an embarrassing leak in which DNC Chair Ken Martin said he was on the verge of quitting because Hogg was undermining...
Rushdi Abualouf Gaza correspondent IDF/Reuters/EPA Clockwise from top left: Late Hamas leaders Mohammed Sinwar, Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Deif and Marwan Issa With the confirmed killing of Hamas’s top military commander Mohammad Sinwar in an Israeli strike, a chapter has closed on the elite leadership group in Gaza that orchestrated the events of 7 October, 2023....
Laura Gozzi BBC News Reporting fromVatican City EPA Not long after greeting crowds from the balcony overlooking St Peter’s Square on Thursday evening, Pope Leo XIV returned to the Sant’Uffizio Palace, where he had been living for the last two months. He was met by a jubilant group of staff and former colleagues, all eager...
The government’s preferred choice as chair of English football’s new independent regulator contributed money to the leadership campaigns of Sir Keir Starmer and Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy. David Kogan told MPs on the Culture, Media and Sport Committee that he was being “utterly transparent” by declaring donations which “hadn’t been discovered by the press”. The...
“Diversity is our strength” has always been a stupid assertion. It is a slogan, a bumper sticker, and as sincerely meant by its proponents as the “COEXIST” bumper sticker slapped on the car of a pro-Hamas protester. Generally, when you encounter somebody who uses that phrase like a weapon to push back on your values...