Sir Keir Starmer was hoping to break the curse of the cabinet away day as he summoned his ministers to Chequers for the launch of a summer “refresh” of his troubled government.... Read more »
Nearly 60 Labour MPs have called on David Lammy and the Foreign Office to immediately recognise Palestine as a state. A mix of centrist and left-wing MPs, including some committee chairs, wrote... Read more »
Police in Northern Ireland are investigating a loyalist bonfire that featured effigies of refugees sitting in a boat as a hate incident. Crowds in the County Tyrone village of Moygashel cheered on... Read more »
Vitaliy Shabunin, head of the Anti-Corruption Action Center’s executive board, meets the press outside his fire-stricken house, Kyiv, Ukraine. (Evgen Kotenko/ Ukrinform/Future Publishing via Getty Images) A sudden legal action by the... Read more »
I have met countless people of various faiths over the years, but there are two real Christians that stand out for me. One is the late Bishop Edward Daly who I was... Read more »
Macron: Europe must end excessive dependencies on both the US and China Macron says European countries must end their “excessive dependencies on both the US and China”. He suggests China’s use of... Read more »
Scottish households are being urged to cut back heavily on their water use and instead treat it as a precious resource due to the growing threat to supplies from climate heating. Alex... Read more »
There are times when a single wartime image can move mountains. We witnessed that during the Vietnam War when Associated Press photographer Nick Ut snapped a picture of Phan Thi Kim Phuc,... Read more »
The news that Jane Birkin’s original Hermès bag has sold for a record-breaking €8.6m (£7.4m) at auction will no doubt cause some jaws to drop to the floor. However, perhaps it should... Read more »
A teenager has pleaded guilty to the section 4 assault causing serious harm to a Longford father in Mullingar before Christmas. The 17-year-old male appeared at a sitting of Mullingar Circuit Court... Read more »