Browsing: Britain

I am relieved and overjoyed by the historic vote on assisted dying in England and Wales in the House of Commons today. The road has been…

I was visiting family in London when the British supreme court handed down its unexpected ruling: under the Equality Act, sex was now considered “binary” in…

Britain is on track to become a “National Health State” where half of all public spending is allocated to the NHS and social care by the…

Rachel Reeves has gambled billions of pounds of infrastructure spending on “renewing Britain” before the next election but faces a challenge to convince voters Labour can…

Rachel Reeves has pledged to “renew Britain” with billions to be invested in energy, housing, transport and infrastructure – though some key departments will face tough…

Hussam, 13, and Muhammad, 14, were killed by air-dropped cluster bombs. These bombs were made by the United States and were dropped in a military campaign…

Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivers his speech during a visit to the BAE Systems’Govan facility, in Glasgow, Scotland on Monday. Andy Buchanan/AFP via AP hide…

On Monday, the prime minister, Keir Starmer, told Britain it was facing threats that were “more serious, more immediate and more unpredictable than at any time…

For the Tories to attack Keir Starmer’s first step towards a Brexit reset is monumental hypocrisy. Their Brexit led to £4.7bn being spent on implementing post-EU…

One Sunday last September, I sat at a table outside one of Lyon’s famous traditional “bouchon” restaurants, eating a sumptuous prix-fixe lunch, as the heavens opened…