Keir Starmer is facing calls from Labour MPs to scrap plans to put asylum seekers in new council homes, potentially forcing the Prime Minister into another embarrassing U-turn.
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.
The United Nations is on the brink of bankruptcy and could run out of cash by July after Donald Trump cut funding, its Secretary-General has said.
The scale of Britain's PIP benefits explosion has been laid bare, with handouts for anxiety and depression nearly tripling to £4.3bn since Covid, the bill for autism and ADHD hitting £2.2bn and for "back pain" £1.6bn.
A Labour council that cancelled its local election to cut costs spent £30k on an "asylum seeker mental health project", while another spent £780k on gagging orders and another spent £250k on "solar carports".
Bill Gates slept with Russian girls, got a sexually-transmitted disease and asked for antibiotics to slip to his then-wife Melinda, new Jeffrey Epstein files released by the US Department of Justice allege.
The BBC must stop "tick box" diversity casting that "shoe-horns" ethnic minorities into inappropriate settings in its dramas, a review commissioned by the corporation has warned.
The number of sex offences reported to police has jumped to a record high of 214,816, official figures show. This includes 74,265 rapes, up 7% in a year and the highest number on record.
Sir Keir Starmer called for the European Convention on Human Rights to be used to investigate British troops in Iraq in a book edited by Phil Shiner, the disgraced lawyer convicted of fraud over false claims of abuse.
A wind turbine factory on the Isle of Wight has cut 300 jobs despite being handed a £20 million grant from Ed Miliband as the promised 'green jobs' in 'clean energy superpower' Britain fail to materialise.
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