2+ day, 54+ min ago   (60+ words) 8am: Over the past five years, the Taliban have repeatedly been accused of taking revenge against the country’s citizens. The group arrests, imprisons, and tortures individuals who criticize Taliban rule. The Taliban have also officially declared that criticizing their rule is…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (258+ words) The ‘War on Terror’ gave far-right Islamophobia legitimacy, reach and electoral force. Before September 11, far right parties in Europe had been largely marginalised within the continent’s multi-party systems. Even where some won significant electoral support, many remained politically stigmatised or…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (257+ words) French train derailment prompts emergency response, with 130 firefighters and five medical teams dispatched to the scene. A passenger train derailed in northwestern France on Friday, injuring 44 people, one critically, local authorities said The train, which was carrying 186 passengers, was travelling…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (292+ words) On Sunday, roads in Portsmouth were blocked after a boat carrying 140 migrants was brought ashore there. This came the day after similar scenes of direct action had blocked roads and disrupted travel in and out of the Port of Dover....

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (501+ words) Last week, Channel 4 broadcast an undercover investigation in which two senior Reform UK officials appeared to discuss ways money from an American financier could be channeled through his U.K.-based son to get around the rules. U.K. electoral law says parties can…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (852+ words) This week, Reform UK gathered thousands of supporters at Birmingham’s National Exhibition Centre to present itself as a government-in-waiting. This was not a sudden interest in Britain’s second-biggest city: Reform has repeatedly used Birmingham for national campaign launches and conferences,…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (491+ words) LONDON: Two officials from Britain’s Reform UK have stepped down amid the latest in a series of funding scandals for the far-right political party. Party officials James Orr and Dan Jukes announced on Friday that they would step down, following…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (645+ words) LONDON (AFP): UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham and French President Emmanuel Macron held their first official talks on Thursday, with migrant boats, Ukraine and British-EU relations high on the agenda. The meeting at Burnham’s Downing Street office and residence came…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (259+ words) LONDON (Reuters): Keir Starmer ‌will stand down as a member of parliament, he said on Tuesday, some six weeks after he resigned as Britain’s prime ​minister having lost the support of his Labour Party. Starmer guided Labour into power in…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (271+ words) The Long View Volume 8 Issue 3 After four ambulances belonging to the Jewish volunteer agency, Hatzola, were attacked in the London suburb of Golder’s Green in the early hours of 23 March, the UK government propaganda machine swung into action. Underlining the…...