The arrests near RAF Fairford raise questions extending far beyond the five men detained. While claims of Iranian involvement remain unconfirmed and have been rejected by Tehran, the episode exposes a striking
A sprawling black market for UK work visas is flourishing, with unregulated agents and licensed companies selling fraudulent “payroll-only” jobs that allow migrants to remain in Britain without doing any real work,
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Chinese hackers allegedly targeted the mobile phones of senior officials in the UK government over a three-year period, according to a report in the Daily Telegraph. The newspaper claims the spying operation,
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Britain has quietly brought back a small number of women and children associated with Islamic State who were detained in Syria alongside Shamima Begum, according to officials running the camps where they
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A new academic study has found that artificial intelligence systems can reproduce subjective and biased views about places, after ChatGPT judged Cambridge to be harder-working and happier than its historic rival Oxford.
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Nigel Farage has reaffirmed his plan to scrap the interest payments the Bank of England currently pays to commercial banks on reserves built up during quantitative easing, saying the move is necessary
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Xi Jinping may command extraordinary authority at home, but in Britain the Chinese president is facing an adversary renowned for delay, complexity and attrition: the UK planning system. Plans for a vast
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Britain and China are moving to revive a “golden era” business dialogue as Prime Minister Keir Starmer prepares for a planned visit to Beijing next week, three sources familiar with the initiative
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The British government is moving to hold its ground after President Donald Trump voiced renewed opposition to the UK’s plan to transfer control of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, reopening a long-running
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Britain’s intelligence chiefs have cautioned ministers that it is unrealistic to expect all security risks to be eliminated from China’s planned mega-embassy in central London, even as the government approved the controversial
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U.S. President Donald Trump sharply criticised Britain on Tuesday over its agreement to transfer sovereignty of Diego Garcia, part of the Chagos Islands, to Mauritius, calling the move an “act of total
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Northern Ireland’s chief constable, Jon Boutcher, has revealed he is reviewing the security classification of a long-suppressed MI5 file from 1973, raising the prospect that one of the most contentious documents of
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A subsidiary of Israel’s largest arms manufacturer has been denied a £2 billion contract to overhaul British Army training, bringing to an end a contentious bidding process marked by allegations of rule
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Britain is accelerating the development of laser weapons designed to protect military installations and key national infrastructure from drone attacks, The Times has learned. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is investigating how
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Britain’s embassy in Caracas refused repeated pleas for help from Venezuela’s ousted president Hugo Chávez during the April 2002 coup that briefly removed him from power, according to newly released documents from
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Rights organisations led by Free Tibet, alongside several allied groups, have intensified their campaign against China’s proposed mega-embassy at Royal Mint Court in London, warning that the project poses serious national security
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