Claims the UK has two-tier justice are “disgusting” and “wrong”, the attorney general has said. In his first major interview, Lord Hermer told the BBC that politicians using the phrase needed to think about the “dangers” they were posing to the UK’s “essential institutions”. Lord Hermer, who is the government’s chief legal adviser, also said...
Talks with Harvard are ongoing and despite hints that some kind of compromise might be reached soon, nothing has been formally announced yet. Meanwhile, the Trump administration does seem to be turning its attention toward California. Yesterday Trump’s education department said California was in violation of federal civil rights law. The Trump administration declared on...
Getty Images Former England football captain David Beckham has been awarded a knighthood in the King’s Birthday Honours, as have actor Gary Oldman and musician Roger Daltrey. UK Honours typically celebrate the contribution of well-known personalities, government employees and ordinary people who have served their community. When are UK honours awarded? Most UK honours are...
Alison Stephenson Local Democracy Reporting Service BBC The system can identify heat spots before fires are noticeable to the human eye Planning consent is being sought for a new fire prevention and suppression system at Plymouth’s largest recycling and waste facility. Biffa Waste Services, which runs the Chelson Meadow facility for Plymouth City Council, said...
Exeter has been named as one of three local authorities helping to develop a powerful new AI tool as part of the government’s wider ambition to use artificial intelligence to drive national growth, modernise public services, and improve lives. Planning permissions will be sped up as the Government rolls out the new AI tool which...
Today is day one of a new transfer system designed to revolutionise the development of young Scottish footballers, but how will club cooperation agreements work? Read full article at source...
Jeremy Bowen International editor Getty Images Witnesses and international medical teams report terrible scenes of killing as Israeli troops opened fire in the hours of Tuesday before dawn on Palestinians who were converging on the new aid distribution site in southern Gaza. It was “total carnage” according to a foreign witness. An official statement from...
Today’s headlines focus on yet another round of the Hamas Hokey Pokey. The real story may be its coming irrelevance. Hamas spent most of the last few days repeatedly claiming to have accepted the terms of a Steven Witkoff cease-fire framework. Twice this week, Hamas tried to game negotiations by declaring support for terms not...
For just $61 billion, Canada can get in on Donald Trump’s latest scheme: a space-based North American missile defense system that Trump has called the “Golden Dome.” Trump posted the amount of money he would expect Canada to pay on his Truth Social account on May 27 — the same day that King Charles was...
Bernd Debusmann Jr BBC News, White House Getty Images Trump said the Golden Dome will be completed by the end of his term. Warheads raining down from beyond the Earth’s atmosphere. Faster-than-sound cruise missiles striking US infrastructure. Sky-high nuclear blasts. These are just some of the nightmarish scenarios that experts warn could come true if...
AFP Médecins Sans Frontières says at least 20 medical facilities across Gaza have been damaged, or forced partially or completely out of service, in the past week Intensified Israeli ground operations and new evacuation orders are stretching Gaza’s health system beyond breaking point, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. Dr Tedros...
The US has selected a design for the futuristic “Golden Dome” missile defence system, says US President Donald Trump, adding that it will be operational by the end of his time in office. Just days after returning to the White House in January, Trump unveiled his intentions for the system, aimed at countering “next-generation” aerial...
The first 100 days of Donald Trump’s second presidency have brought about big, destructive changes in U.S. society and culture as well as on the environment. They have also caused real damage to the economy, which has gone on reverse on almost all fronts since Trump took office. By talking out of both sides of...
Nalini Sivathasan and Tom Beal BBC News Investigations BBC/The Postal Museum/Getty Images The Post Office has paid more than £600m of public money to continue using the faulty Horizon IT system despite deciding to ditch it more than a decade ago, the BBC can reveal. The terms of the original 1999 deal with computer giant...
Well, at least the mask is off. You have to hand it to David Hogg on this one, he doesn’t mince words. ???? WHOA… DNC Vice Chair David Hogg, the party’s new face, issues stunning new statement on “democracy” “Democracy is what put us through school shooter drills and schools shootings. It’s what’s put us...