Londoners woke up Friday to a city edging back toward normal after a week of stoppages that turned the Underground into a patchwork of shuttered gates, sporadic services and crowded alternatives. The Rail, Maritime...
The Tube strike entered its second full day on Tuesday, intensifying disruption across London as commuters grappled with packed buses, long walks and overloaded journey planners. With negotiations stalled, the capital is facing a...
Prince Harry during an Invictus-related engagement, 2019. Source: Wikimedia Commons. Prince Harry’s return to the United Kingdom this week is more than a diary of engagements. It is a reminder of his commitment to...
Broadcasting House, the BBC headquarters in London. Photo: Oxyman, via Wikimedia Commons. LONDON — 8 September 2025 Yes, a widely respected organisation’s report suggests that the licence fee — which is sold as a...
Birmingham residents paint the St George’s Cross on mini-roundabouts. Descriptive footage of the street-level flag campaign. “Operation Raise the Colours” footage: flags painted and flown in Birmingham neighbourhoods. If your theme blocks iframes, link...
Jeremy Corbyn, 2019. Zarah Sultana, official parliamentary portrait. The start of this new political realignment comes as Britain drifts headlong into an economic crisis. The divide between rich and poor is widening, with wealth...
Exterior of an Aldi supermarket. Photo via Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0). Exterior of a Morrisons supermarket. Photo via Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0). Aldi has taken the crown as the UK’s cheapest supermarket...
Londoners faced one of their most chaotic mornings yet today, as a London Underground strike entered its first full day in force. With almost no Tube service before 08:00 and journeys advised to be...
LONDON — Jeremy Corbyn’s inquiry has shifted the debate back onto the government, forcing ministers to confront allegations of complicity in Gaza that will now circulate in public reports and international forums. Last week...
BIRMINGHAM — In 2021, Reform UK was little more than a footnote. Its inaugural conference drew a few hundred activists to a function room in Manchester, far overshadowed by the Conservative Party gathering down...
LONDON — London is bracing for days of severe disruption on the Underground as members of the RMT union prepare a rolling walkout that is expected to halt most Tube services for four consecutive...
LONDON — On the afternoon of 24 July 2025, a bare-bones website suddenly lit up with traffic. Its message was stark: “It’s time to build a new kind of political party — one that...
LONDON — Immigration is once again Britain’s most combustible political issue, and this week it spilled into the streets and across X — the platform once known as Twitter — with hashtags like #StopTheBoats...
LONDON — The arrest of Graham Linehan, co-creator of the sitcom Father Ted, has erupted into a global flashpoint after Elon Musk and J.K. Rowling used their platforms on X to denounce the move....
LONDON — Graham Linehan, the Irish writer and co-creator of the cult sitcom Father Ted, was arrested at Heathrow Airport this week on suspicion of inciting violence through social media posts. What might once...
LONDON — Britain’s long-term borrowing costs have surged to their highest level since 1998, rattling the Treasury and intensifying the pressure on Chancellor Rachel Reeves ahead of her first full Budget. The yield on...
By Jaffa Levy An impulse—to reclaim a sense of belonging—echoed in England this weekend, where flags and protests occurred in the open air. A surge of English and British flags across town centres and...
By Elizabeth Wang Britain’s rental crisis has spawned a chilling new trend: landlords quietly trading rooms for sexual favours, targeting the most vulnerable and flouting criminal law. Britain’s rental crisis has spawned a chilling...
By Jaffa Levy Man is free. He does not need to be surveilled, categorised, or indexed. That principle has always been central to British life. From Magna Carta to the rejection of continental-style identity...
By Jaffa Levy — London They came first in small boats. Julius Caesar, peering across the narrow water, lashed together a flotilla of timbered hulls and tested the Channel twice, in 55 and 54...
By Jaffa Levy — Reform UK has stopped talking about “turning the boats back.” According to Mark White’s interview for GB News, Nigel Farage now speaks the language of deportations, legal resets, and international...
By Jaffa Levy The silence of Britain’s leaders in the face of mounting warnings has become louder than any denial. There has been no clear rebuttal from the Prime Minister, no assertive statement from...
By Jaffa Levy — August 28, 2025 LONDON — For the first time since 2008, American nuclear weapons are again being stationed on British soil. According to Western defense officials and satellite evidence reviewed...