Ed Miliband has scrapped the rule requiring heat pumps to be installed at least one metre from neighbours’ homes, leaving councils braced for a surge in noise complaints.
The Chinese Government has hailed Sir Keir Starmer's Chagos Islands deal as a "massive achievement" – flatly contradicting his claim that Beijing was against it.
Free period products are now available on Avanti West Coast trains, but only to "people" and "customers" — not women.
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ‘climate emergency’, public health ‘crises’ and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
Keir Starmer's push to supercharge the economy through a wave of AI data centres risks derailing Labour's Net Zero ambitions, with one Northumberland site alone set to emit as much CO₂ as Birmingham Airport.
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ‘climate emergency’, public health ‘crises’ and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
Why is the British state so dysfunctional? Ex-government special adviser James Price explains what's wrong with Whitehall – and what can be done about it.
Nigel Farage has set out Reform UK's election pitch with a flurry of headline pledges – scrap Net Zero, axe DEI, lift the two-child cap and raise tax thresholds to support families and workers.
In a win for free speech (and the Free Speech Union), the Bar Standards Board has finally backed down on its proposal to impose a duty on barristers to "promote" equality, diversity and inclusion.
Tommy Robinson has walked free early from HMP Woodhill after a High Court judge knocked four months off his 18-month contempt sentence.
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