There was something revealing about the state of Reform UK in the decision to bring in an immaculately coiffured Frenchman to rally its annual conference. Jordan Bardella, who is expected to become
In the final weeks before her death in August 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales, did something almost unheard of for a senior royal. She spoke openly, on the record, to a foreign
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When Hugo Chávez arrived in London in October 2001, two years into his presidency, the visit was presented as routine diplomacy between allies. Chávez was scheduled to meet prime minister Tony Blair
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Sri Lanka is taking steps to seek compensation from countries that once occupied the island for antiquities looted and for the lives and property lost during the colonial period, Foreign Affairs Minister
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As soon as the television cameras were ushered out of the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, the carefully choreographed spectacle of diplomacy gave way to something more personal. Sitting across
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When Stanislaw Sokolowski turned up at his modest home in Brentford, west London, on a cold January day in 2023, he expected nothing more than to collect post. Instead, he found six
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by Luxman Brooke N. Newman’s The Crown’s Silence is a book that does not merely revise British history; it indicts it. Written with the precision of an archival historian and the moral
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Britain is preparing to introduce landmark legislation that would allow the government to ban Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, marking a significant escalation in its response to Tehran’s violent suppression of anti-government
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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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