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 trending at the top of the feed. Protest clips outside hotels housing asylum seekers, posts accusing Labour of favouring migrants over […]
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. Linehan, 57, was arrested at Heathrow Airport on suspicion of inciting violence, following April posts in which he urged that if […]
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 have been a narrow police matter quickly escalated into a political and cultural storm, amplified by prominent voices on X, including […]
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 30-year government bonds — gilts — has climbed sharply in recent weeks, outpacing both U.S. Treasuries and German Bunds. For investors, […]
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 transport arteries complemented with anti-immigration protests this weekend, offering a vivid tableau of how national symbols have become proxy battlegrounds for […]
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 new trend: landlords quietly trading rooms for sexual favours, targeting the most vulnerable and flouting criminal law. With private rents surging […]
How sabotage, austerity and Trump’s shadow left the continent exposed By Jaffa Levy Europe has slipped into a brittle bargain. In Berlin, ministers say the welfare state is “too expensive,” even as they prepare to bring back military service—voluntary first, compulsory if too few step forward. In Paris, Emmanuel Macron casts Russia as a predator […]
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 papers, the understanding has endured: a citizen is not required to account for himself to the state at every turn. Now, […]
By Jaffa Levy August 30, 2025 Europe finds itself at a crossroads. As the war in Ukraine grinds on into its fourth year, Western capitals are under pressure to sustain the flow of weapons while grappling with rising debt, fragile economies, and restive populations. The United States, long the primary source of military aid, has […]
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 BC. The crossings were tenuous, the landings hard, but the sea itself—the short, churning strait—was the measure of Britain’s peril and […]
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 withdrawals. It is not a tactical slogan anymore; it is an entire architecture for pulling Britain out of the European Court […]
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 the Chancellor, no authoritative reassurance from the Governor of the Bank of England. Instead, there has been evasion, suppression, and an […]
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 by arms control analysts, the United States has transferred newly modernized B61-12 thermonuclear bombs to RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk — a […]
By Jaffa Levy — 27 August 2025 Kyiv continues to press Western capitals for “security guarantees.” President Zelensky has raised the issue repeatedly in Washington, insisting that without binding assurances Ukraine will face another war. Yet talk of guarantees is premature: no guarantee can exist until hostilities end, and Moscow has made it plain that […]
By Jaffa Levy The Long Read Europe in Denial: Moral Rhetoric and Strategic Decline The continent clings to the language of virtue as its energy arteries are severed, its industries hollowed out, and its financial credibility questioned. Reading time: ~18 minutes For more than five centuries, Europe commanded the centre of world affairs. Its empires […]