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  • Thursday, 11 July, 2024
    Biden tells Starmer UK is ‘knot tying transatlantic alliance together’

    UK prime minister’s quest for closer EU ties gets tacit nod from US president as he makes global debut at Nato forum

    Keir Starmer, left, and Joe Biden at a White House meeting on Wednesday, July 10 2024
  • Sunday, 7 July, 2024
    UK politics
    Starmer tells Netanyahu of ‘clear and urgent’ need for Gaza ceasefire

    New UK prime minister stresses importance of ensuring conditions for two-state solution

    Pro-Palestinian protesters hold placards depicting Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner
  • Tuesday, 2 July, 2024
    Starmer to signal Britain is ‘back’ on the world stage

    Labour wants to strengthen ties with Europe and the global south, while boosting climate change co-operation

    Sir Keir Starmer during a visit to a military base in Estonia
  • Saturday, 15 June, 2024
    UK government spending
    British army delays King Charles cap badges over China spying fears

    UK defence official cites possibility that tracking devices or GPS transmitters could be embedded into metal crests

    young Soldiers marching past their reviewing officer during their passing out parade.
  • Friday, 7 June, 2024
    Law
    Mike Lynch acquittal turns spotlight on UK-US extradition deal

    Three times as many Britons are sent to trial in America than travel the other way across Atlantic to face charges

    British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch walks into federal court in San Francisco
  • Friday, 31 May, 2024
    Foreign & Commonwealth Office UK
    UK ambassador to Mexico sacked after pointing gun at staff

    Incident on an official trip captured in a video posted on social media

    on Benjamin holding an assault rifle in a video that was posted on X
  • Wednesday, 22 May, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    US questions UK claims that China is providing ‘lethal aid’ to Russia

    Jake Sullivan says he ‘had not seen’ intelligence showing collaboration ‘on combat equipment’

    China’s leader Xi Jinping, left, welcomes Russian President Vladimir Putin to Beijing on May 16, 2024
  • Wednesday, 22 May, 2024
    UK minister made secret trip to UAE after relations soured

    Deputy prime minister Oliver Dowden flew out to Gulf state as Britain seeks fresh investment

    Montage of Oliver Dowden against UAE flag
  • Tuesday, 21 May, 2024
    Labour party UK
    Labour sets out ‘securonomics’ vision to avoid inflationary shocks

    Opposition party announcement to coincide with new inflation data on Wednesday

  • Tuesday, 21 May, 2024
    Philip Stephens
    Starmer must recognise that great nations need not be great powers

    Realism is not defeatism — Britain has plenty to offer when it concentrates its resources

    Four men in military fatigues stand outside in a winter landscape
  • Monday, 20 May, 2024
    Israel-Hamas war
    Labour backs ICC independence over Gaza in split with Tories

    UK shadow foreign secretary calls court ‘cornerstone’ of justice system after prosecutor seeks arrest warrants

    Palestinians salvage items from the rubble of a family house that was hit overnight in Israeli bombardment in Rafah, Gaza
  • Thursday, 16 May, 2024
    Russian politics
    Russia to expel UK defence attaché in tit-for-tat move

    Decision comes week after London ordered ‘undeclared military intelligence officer’ to leave Britain

    Russia’s foreign ministry
  • Tuesday, 14 May, 2024
    Cyber warfare
    China poses ‘genuine and increasing cyber risk’ to UK, warns GCHQ head

    Anne Keast-Butler’s remarks follow alleged Beijing-related espionage activity in Britain

    Anne Keast-Butler speaking at a security conference in Birmingham on Tuesday
  • Tuesday, 14 May, 2024
    UK defence spending
    UK orders up to six new warships for Royal Marines

    Grant Shapps says new force will help Britain to ‘fight the battles of the future’

    Britain’s Royal Navy’s amphibious transport dock HMS Albion
  • Wednesday, 8 May, 2024
    Political espionage
    UK to expel Russian defence attaché for spying

    Home secretary says measures are in response to Moscow’s ‘malign activity’

    James Cleverly
  • Wednesday, 8 May, 2024
    Anand Menon
    The path to UK-India friendship is littered with obstacles

    There are clear signs of progress but domestic politics are complicating relations

    Rishi Sunak meets Narendra Modi at a G20 summit in New Delhi last year
  • Thursday, 2 May, 2024
    Michael Peel
    What the Gurkhas of Brunei tell us about British military overstretch

    A battalion of troops remains in the tiny petrostate

    Illustration of a British bulldog as a slinky dog with the springcoil stretching off into the distance
  • Friday, 26 April, 2024
    Food & Drink
    Another pointless article about the UK’s strategic wine reserves

    Return to the £3.66mn Cellar: The Plonky Version

  • Thursday, 25 April, 2024
    Israel-Hamas war
    World leaders make renewed push to secure release of Gaza hostages

    Eighteen countries call on Hamas to free captives and secure ‘immediate and prolonged’ ceasefire

    A demonstration by the families of hostages and their supporters outside the Israeli defence ministry in Tel Aviv
  • Tuesday, 23 April, 2024
    UK defence spending
    Sunak pledges big boost to UK defence spending by 2030

    Prime minister says military budget will rise to 2.5% of GDP by the end of the decade

    Rishi Sunak in Warsaw on Tuesday
  • Monday, 22 April, 2024
    Sunak to increase UK military aid to Ukraine to £3bn this year

    Pledge of extra £500mn comes as PM flies to Warsaw and Berlin and announces largest supply of munitions to Kyiv

    Sunak meeting with Zelenskyy in January 2024
  • Monday, 22 April, 2024
    UK expected to appoint national security adviser as ambassador to US

    Opposition Labour party vows to rethink the appointment if it wins the general election

    Sir Tim Barrow
  • Wednesday, 17 April, 2024
    Middle East conflict
    Israel to retaliate against Iran, warns Cameron

    UK foreign secretary calls on Jewish state to do ‘as little to escalate this as possible’ amid fears of regional war

    David Cameron, left, meets Israeli President Isaac Herzog in Jerusalem on Wednesday
  • Wednesday, 17 April, 2024
    Labour to seek regular UK access to EU foreign affairs council

    Proposal is one option for more formalised relations with Brussels if opposition party wins general election

    David Lammy, shadow foreign secretary,
  • Tuesday, 16 April, 2024
    Israel-Hamas war
    Netanyahu and Sunak speak after RAF helped repel Iranian attack

    UK warns any escalation is in no one’s interest and would deepen insecurity in region

    UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak greets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the steps of 10 Downing Street in March
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