The Sentencing Council has rejected calls from the justice secretary to change guidance that recommends judges consider a criminal’s ethnicity before deciding their punishment. The body, which sets out sentencing guidance to…
Threat of Russia and America exploiting the Arctic another challenge for Europe | World News
Two events this week will give Greenland and friends in Europe a juddering sense of alarm. From the West, the US vice president JD Vance is on his way, despatched by a…
Israel strikes Beirut for first time since ceasefire deal agreed with Hezbollah | World News
Israel has carried out a strike on Beirut for the first time since it agreed a ceasefire deal with Hezbollah in November. The Israeli military says the strike targeted infrastructure storing drones…
US pushes for more expansive minerals deal with Ukraine | World News
The US is reportedly pushing for a more expansive minerals deal with Ukraine. That’s according to three people familiar with the ongoing negotiations, who have spoken to the news agency, Reuters. A…
The rupture in diplomatic norms has left Ukraine and Europe reeling – as Russia’s full-scale invasion reaches three-year mark | World News
In less than a fortnight, Donald Trump has shredded long-standing security assumptions about American support for Europe, creating a new crisis for Ukraine and leaving the whole continent in greater peril than…
Can Starmer silence the rebels? | Politics News
👉 Click here to listen to Electoral Dysfunction on your podcast app 👈 Beth Rigby, Ruth Davidson and Harriet Harman analyse Rachel Reeves’s spring statement and how Donald Trump may have made…
JD Vance and wife due in Greenland as Putin warns US threat to take over not ‘extravagant talk’ | World News
JD Vance and his wife are due to arrive in Greenland on Friday for a trip that provoked uproar – as Vladimir Putin warns that US threats to take over the island…
Keir Starmer’s Trump trip is almost upon us – and the stakes could not be higher | Politics News
Sir Keir Starmer will this week go to Washington to try to help broker a just peace deal for Ukraine with a capricious president who in just a week has unwound a…
What Labour is doing to keep the welfare rebels quiet | Politics News
Government whips will be overestimating the number of Labour rebels over welfare cuts as a form of “expectation management”, Dame Harriet Harman has said. Speaking to Beth Rigby on the Electoral Dysfunction…
7.7 magnitude earthquake hits Myanmar, prompting evacuations as far away as Bangkok | World News
A 7.7 magnitude earthquake has struck Myanmar – with at least two dead and an unknown number of others trapped in a collapsed building after the impact was felt as far away…