Month : February 2025
Bereaved parents launch court challenge over UK benefit ‘discrimination’
Widowed parent’s allowance claims for those not married or in civil partnership can only be backdated from 30 August 2018 Two bereaved parents have filed...
Rediscovered, a young English novelist’s warning of the Nazi threat
Crooked Cross, Sally Carson’s ‘electrifying masterpiece’ from 1934, to be republished Sally Carson was not an oracle or a prophet, just a young woman from...
Trump’s foreign aid cuts could be ‘big strategic mistake’, says Lammy
Exclusive: Move allows China to further global influence, UK foreign secretary says on Ukraine visit Donald Trump’s plans to make dramatic cuts to the United...
French police investigating deaths of retired British couple in Aveyron home
Andrew Searle, retired fraud investigator, and wife, Dawn, found dead in their rural home in south-west France French police are investigating the deaths of a...
Sweden to tighten gun laws in wake of Örebro mass shooting
We have to ensure that only the right people have guns in Sweden,’ says prime minister Ulf Kristersson Sweden’s government has announced plans to strengthen...
Authoritarian regimes around the world cheer on dismantling of USAid
Elon Musk-led razing of US foreign aid agency led strong-arm rulers in Hungary, Belarus and elsewhere to celebrate Moscow has welcomed the impending dissolution of...
Authoritarian regimes around the world cheer on dismantling of USAid
Elon Musk-led razing of US foreign aid agency led strong-arm rulers in Hungary, Belarus and elsewhere to celebrate Moscow has welcomed the impending dissolution of...
Trump administration disbands taskforce targeting Russian oligarchs
US attorney general issues memo to break up effort started after 2022 Ukraine invasion to target those close to Kremlin The US justice department under...
British conman accused of ramming police with car goes on trial in France
Robert Hendy-Freegard, the subject of a Netflix documentary, denies deliberately hitting two officers A British conman who featured in a Netflix documentary has denied deliberately...
