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...
Hannah Hampton with the Women’s Super League trophy after Chelsea vs Liverpool at Stamford Bridge, 10 May 2025. Photo: Katie Chan / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). The Women’s Super League enters its new...
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...
KYIV — The claim landed like a hammer blow in a war already defined by attrition and exhaustion: “142,000 servicemen deserted.” In a few words it compressed two and a half years of fear,...
Russian accounts describe custom malware, a OneDrive trove and a casualty ledger; Kyiv rejects the story as information warfare NY-Style Enhanced — Excerpt (No Headline) MOSCOW — The story began with a single post...
Carolyn Gelenter, daughter of a Holocaust survivor, being arrested by police in Parliament Square. Video courtesy of Novara Media. London — Stephen Kapos, 87, survived the Holocaust as a child. This winter, he laid...
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...
Angela Rayner said she resigned over a £40,000 underpayment of stamp duty when she bought a flat in Hove. But this was not a crime. It was a mistake that could have been rectified...
PARIS — When Emmanuel Macron and Keir Starmer convened a “coalition of the willing” in Paris to discuss security guarantees for Ukraine, they were not speaking from a position of strength. Twenty-six capitals signed...
Who really benefits as costs climb and fans are priced out? Today morning, the BBC reported that Egyptian police had shut down Streameast, a piracy site which drew more than 1.6 billion visits in...
There is something profoundly human about wanting to know who — or what — you are talking to. Is the voice on the other end of the line a living person, or a machine...
Yiddish New York: A Living Heritage of Torah, Safety, and Continuity Walk down Hester Street in a century-old photograph and you can almost hear it: the bargaining at pushcarts, the crackle of Yiddish in...
In a single post, Donald J. Trump captured a sobering truth: America’s influence over two great powers has slipped away. The story runs deeper than one president. It is the result of decades of...
Walk into almost any synagogue and you may hear the phrase tikkun olam. The Hebrew words sound ancient, but to most non-Jews they are unfamiliar. Translated simply, they mean “repairing the world.” The idea...
Imagine you type out a query: Opinion on Bhutan. Or perhaps: What’s the background of the Prime Minister? You might ask, Where are the good places to take a holiday? Or something more practical:...
The machines did not arrive as monsters. They arrived as helpers—polite, ever-awake, and eager to please. In offices and bedrooms, in clinics and classrooms, people now ask chatbots to plan a week, critique a...
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...
JOHANNESBURG — South Africa has asked China to postpone joint naval exercises with Russia until after November’s Group of 20 summit, an unusual step by a government that has long defended its military partnerships...
WASHINGTON — President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order on Friday authorizing the Pentagon to be styled once again as the Department of War, reviving a name that vanished from official use more...
JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s promise of a strategic victory is unraveling. Instead of triumph, Israel faces the contours of strategic defeat: a grinding stalemate in Gaza, an economy losing investor confidence, a...
JERUSALEM — In the Hebrew press, the calls are growing louder, sharper, and more extreme. The country’s most widely read right-wing daily, Israel Hayom, published an opinion piece this week that made plain what...
JERUSALEM — More than four in five Jewish Israelis — 82 percent, according to a June Haaretz poll — now say they support expelling Gazans from the Strip. The figure is overwhelming, and it...
BERLIN — The turbulence in Germany’s politics cannot be separated from the choices its leaders have made since 2022. What some analysts describe as a “political tsunami” is also the result of self-inflicted wounds:...
Washington’s Shadow War on Venezuela: Bounties, Battleships, and the Long Siege CARACAS — The gray silhouettes of U.S. warships have reappeared in the Caribbean, a show of force not seen with such intensity since...