Covid infections were falling across Europe before lockdowns, new research shows, making the Covid Inquiry's claim that locking down a week earlier could have saved 23,000 lives "complete hokum".
Palestine Action has won a legal challenge against the Home Office’s decision to ban it as a terror group, with the judge citing the ECHR and saying the group has not yet engaged in enough terrorism to warrant a ban.
Pupils will be allowed to change their gender at school, according to new guidance published by Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson that critics have said encourages a "dangerous fairy tale".
The transgender teenager responsible for Canada's worst school shooting in nearly 40 years wrote online about being 6ft and his desire to be a "petite" woman as well as his fixation with guns and drugs.
Britain has been "colonised" by immigrants who are "costing too much money", billionaire Ineos owner and Manchester United co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe has said.
Rachel Reeves will say closer integration with the European Union is the "biggest prize" for Britain in a speech at the London School of Economics this afternoon – a reversal of the position she set out just last month.
Emmanuel Macron has blamed Spain's mega-blackout in April, which left five dead, on the country's reliance on renewable energy, saying the debate arguing otherwise is a "false one".
Binmen in Birmingham have voted to continue striking for six months, despite rubbish littering the city's streets ever since the walkout began over a year ago in January 2025.
A council has been ridiculed for painting road markings through potholes rather than fixing them, with critics branding it an "epic waste" of taxpayers' money.
The debating society of Bangor University has banned Reform UK MP Sarah Pochin from speaking to students, saying it is taking a "stand against Reform UK" and "keeping hate out of our universities".
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