Schools are banning children from playing outside during heatwaves, keeping them inside for 'hot play' breaks when their playgrounds are deemed to be 'too hot to use safely'.
Angela Rayner has backed down on "secretive" plans for a new definition of Islamophobia, expanding and extending a public consultation on the proposals, after the Free Speech Union threatened legal action.
A life on sickness benefits will soon pay £2,500 more a year than a full-time minimum wage job, according to analysis from the Centre for Social Justice. No wonder the country is going bankrupt.
Britain’s move to a Net Zero economy will cost taxpayers more than £800 billion over the next two decades, the UK’s fiscal watchdog has said. But even this is based on implausibly generous assumptions, say critics.
A row has broken out over plans to burn an effigy of migrants in a small boat as part of an annual Northern Ireland bonfire protest tradition, with critics branding the move "sickening and racist".
Emmanuel Macron has blamed Sir Keir Starmer for the migrant crisis in the Channel, saying a third of migrants in the EU are headed to the UK and demanding Starmer makes Britain a much less appealing destination.
Junior doctors have voted to strike until January 2026 to demand a 29% pay rise, despite receiving a 22% rise last year, in a move that will see thousands of NHS appointments and operations cancelled.
With Lucy Connolly now languishing in jail for over 330 days for a tweet, the Wall Street Journal has run an article highlighting her plight and the sorry state of free speech in the UK and Europe.
Keir Starmer's 'one in, one out' migrant returns deal with France is on life support after the EU intervened on behalf of several European nations worried about migrants being sent back to the EU.
Shoplifting and drug use are being given a "green light" as a Government review is set to recommend "out of court resolutions" for thousands of "low level" criminals to ease the backlog in the justice system.
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