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Brexit Firebrand Farage Shakes Up UK Election Fight

Brexit figurehead Nigel Farage announced Monday he will stand at the UK general election next month, in a major U-turn that threatens to split the right-wing vote and further imperil the beleaguered ruling Conservatives.

International Business Times

OPINION - We’re stealing from the young to give to the old — politicians should raid pensions

It’s a frustration of mine that I often get the feeling people don’t seem to understand how on edge we are financially as a country. At the end of 2023/24 public sector net debt was £2.6 trillion, which is a staggering 98% of GDP. The interest the government has to…

Evening Standard

Labour leader Keir Starmer says he'll keep the UK's nuclear weapons in 'age of insecurity'

British opposition leader Keir Starmer has pledged to keep the U.K.’s nuclear weapons

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China charges couple with spying for UK’s MI6

Chinese intelligence claims husband recruited while studying in the United Kingdom, and later brought his wife on board.

Al Jazeera

Carnival dancers, stained glass and a haunted corner shop: a tour around Alvaro Barrington’s installation Grace

This fast-rising artist became known for his yarn paintings but has always thought beyond the canvas. Now he’s transplanting strands of his lives in Grenada, New York and London into the galleries of Tate Britain

The Guardian - UK

UK Labour Seeks To Reassure Voters On Defence

Britain's Labour opposition party committed Monday to ensuring the UK's nuclear arsenal, pitching itself as strong on defence for July's election in contrast to the last vote, when it lost heavily.

International Business Times

Remembering D-Day, RAF veteran Gilbert Clarke recalls the thrill of planes overhead

Gilbert Clarke leans back on the seat of his mobility scooter, cranes his neck and gazes into the bright blue skies over East London, remembering the moment 80 years ago when he knew the invasion of France was under way

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France, European powers push to censure Iran at UN nuclear meeting

France, Germany and Britain will seek to censure Iran over its lack of cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog at a board meeting starting this Monday in Vienna, despite US opposition.

Radio France Internationale

China Says MI6 Recruited State Workers To Spy For UK

China on Monday accused Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) of recruiting a couple who worked for the central government to spy for the UK, adding to months of mutual espionage allegations between Beijing and Western powers.

International Business Times

31% of Australians are obese – is Ozempic a healthy solution? A GP considers Johann Hari’s inside take on a ‘mass experiment’

Obesity levels for adults have hit 26% in Britain and 42.5% in the United States, journalist Johann Hari writes in his new book, Magic Pill. In Australia, recent data shows we’re somewhere in the middle: 31%.

The Conversation

UK’s nuclear deterrent key to Starmer’s plans to keep Britain safe

Labour leader Keir Starmer will meet with forces veterans and a group of his party’s candidates when he campaigns in the North West of England on Monday

The Independent UK

UK within British empire is like last person left at a party, says David Olusoga

Historian tells Hay festival audience that Britain needs to ‘liberate itself and have independence day from its own history’

The Guardian - UK

Jemma Reekie and Laura Muir storm to Diamond League victories in Stockholm

Jemma Reekie continued a fine season for Britain’s women’s 800m runners while her fellow Scot Muir kicked to a convincing 1500m win

The Guardian - UK

‘He didn’t have a contract for me’: the Indian careworkers who paid agents to work in Britain

People paid to obtain visas and sponsorship certificates but arrived to find little or no work, in abuses of care worker visa system

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Crime and punishment: how 14 years of Tory rule have changed Britain – in charts

The coronavirus pandemic had a huge effect on the justice system, but what else can the data show us?

The Guardian - UK

Immigration must be matched with investment in UK infrastructure to ease pressures

Net migration has benefits but has done nothing to address downward trend in per capita GDP

The Guardian - UK

Bohemian Bristol Central could be the one contest Labour loses on election night. Here’s why

The Greens have their sights set on Britain’s most pro-migrant constituency, where people once rioted over a new Tesco, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

The Independent UK

Britain going backwards on trans rights, warns first transgender judge

Exclusive: Pioneering lawyer Victoria McCloud says wave of hostility has led to ‘general acceptance that it’s OK to abuse trans people’

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Starmer must introduce wealth tax after Labour wins election, top Blair aide says

Senior adviser who worked for Tony Blair and Gordon Brown says there is an ‘urgent imperative’ for a new government to address wealth inequality in Britain

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak and the truth about a ‘Canada 1993’ election wipeout

Over 30 years ago in Canada, a ruling Conservative Party was demolished in an election thanks to a party called ‘Reform’. But anyone predicting history will repeat itself in Britain this year is set to be sorely disappointed, writes Jabed Ahmed

Evening Standard

Teacher who spent years taking pictures of schoolgirls' legs and skirts spared jail

Stephen Maloney, 73, taught at one of Britain’s top private schools

Fortune

Snouts, muddy puddles and British accents: How Peppa Pig became a global cultural phenomenon—and a $1.7 billion business franchise

The staying power of the animated show about a family of pigs—going 20 years strong—has made it one of Britain’s most significant cultural exports.

The Guardian - UK

‘No one wants a Nazi in their family’: a German prisoner of war, a secret affair and the mystery of my dad’s parentage

Thousands of Germans were held in camps in Britain after the war – and local women who ‘fraternised’ with them scandalised the nation. Could one of these illicit relationships explain the puzzle at the heart of my family tree?

The National (Scotland)

Literary Scottish city dubbed one of the best in Britain for book lovers

A Scottish city has been named one of the best on the British Isles for book lovers by The Telegraph.

The Independent UK

Patrick Vallance becomes the latest public servant who worked with the Tory government to back Labour

Britain’s former chief scientific officer Sir Patrick Vallance backed Labour’s Great British Energy plan today

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