9+ hour, 36+ min ago   (360+ words) Sunday 13 September 2026 Amid all the fuss about the UK’s borrowing costs and high gilt yields, my mind goes back to 1976 and the time when the Labour chancellor Denis Healey was forced to go “cap in hand” to the International Monetary…...

7+ hour, 1+ min ago   (808+ words) Sunday 13 September 2026 In October 2023, the founder of Palantir, Peter Thiel, took to the stage at Oxford University’s Sheldonian theatre to deliver a lecture about his book The Diversity Myth. Sitting in the front row was James Orr, an academic and,…...

7+ hour, 1+ min ago   (750+ words) Sunday 13 September 2026 Multi-million pound donations to Reform UK from two crypto-billionaires may fall foul of a new law that caps the amount of money Britons living abroad can contribute to political parties. Yesterday, Christopher Harborne, who is based in Thailand,…...

9+ hour, 15+ min ago   (320+ words) Sunday 13 September 2026 Miliband’s critics have advanced many arguments, but two are particularly important. The first is that sanctions against certain Israeli citizens or settlements are antisemitic or would lead to increased antisemitism. To accept this claim would be to give…...

9+ hour, 30+ min ago   (832+ words) Sunday 13 September 2026 Keir Starmer resisted calls from the Labour party and parts of the Foreign Office to ban trade with illegal West Bank settlements for years out of fear of angering Israel. The foreign secretary, Ed Miliband, brought 11 countries on…...

10+ hour, 20+ min ago   (555+ words) Sunday 13 September 2026 As fears mount over AI safety and dependence on US labs, a survey of large UK businesses has found that more than half want greater control over sensitive data, while 29% now view “digital sovereignty” as a board-level priority....

9+ hour, 30+ min ago   (659+ words) Sunday 13 September 2026 Andy Burnham has been warned by the victims’ commissioner for England that public safety will be put at risk if he abandons plans to reduce the number of jury trials. In an interview with The Observer, Claire Waxman…...

10+ hour, 53+ min ago   (285+ words) Sunday 13 September 2026 Houthi fighters chanting and raising rifles atop a military vehicle in Dhubab district, Taiz province, Yemen Gas prices in the UK and Europe climbed to their highest level since 2022 as a resurgence of conflict in the Middle East…...

11+ hour, 34+ min ago   (797+ words) Sunday 13 September 2026 Hundreds of protesters gathered in Portsmouth yesterday to express their frustration at what they claim is a broken migration system. The Portsmouth Patriots said the turnout was their largest so far for a march, which came after a…...

1+ week, 9+ hour ago   (769+ words) Sunday 6 September 2026 The US-led attack in recent years on so-called “woke capitalism” has produced diverging responses from business. Many have stopped talking about, scaled back or given up on their social and environmental efforts, either not wanting to become a…...