The Metropolitan Police chief has said he is “shocked and frustrated” at a planned protest in support of Palestine Action in London on Monday. Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said while the right to protest is essential, “actions in support of such a group go beyond what most would see as legitimate protest”. It comes as...
Getty Images Students should be ready to be shocked and offended at university, according to the man in charge of ensuring free speech on campuses. Arif Ahmed, from the Office for Students (OfS), which regulates universities, told the BBC that exposure to views which students might find offensive was “part of the process of education”....
A knitted postbox topper was destroyed by a fire, organisers of a charity trail said. The postbox topper, on Withycombe Village Road in Exmouth, was suspected to have been damaged on Sunday evening. Organisers added the damage to the topper, which was part of the 2025 Hospiscare Mail Trail, was reported to them on Monday....
Andrew Harding BBC Paris correspondent Getty Images Protesters outside the court in Vannes have turned out to show their support for Le Scouarnec’s victims It was supposed to be a defining, catalytic moment for French society. Horrific, but unmissable. Unignorable. The seaside town of Vannes, in southern Brittany, had carefully prepared a special venue and...
Ed wrote a great piece about the “leak” of the Biden-Hur tapes to POLITICO and all the breathless stories about how Biden really WAS a rambling, senile mess as the Special Counsel questioned him. As I peruse X on my morning stroll through the modern information hellscape, I keep coming across people pretending to be...
I’m shocked, too — that Bill Maher’s audience took this as well as they did. Kudos to them, because it could have been very uncomfortable reception to the Real Time host. Maher has done a good job of attempting to present a more balanced show than most TV comics these days, so perhaps that’s not as...