Human rights committee including peers says public order bill lacks nuance and targets peaceful protests MPs and peers have accused ministers of creating a “hostile environment” for peaceful protests with its proposals for new policing powers. The draft public order bill includes a new offence of “locking on”, which relates […]
Police chief says one of the men arrested in connection with the pair’s disappearance had confessed to killing them The writer and the activist: how Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira bonded over the Amazon Police in the Brazilian Amazon have found the bodies of two men in the area close […]
Geidt said: ‘I feel that it is right that I am resigning from my post’ after questions over whether PM broke ministerial code Boris Johnson’s attempt to relaunch his premiership suffered a fresh blow on Wednesday night when his ethics adviser, Lord Geidt, dramatically quit after conceding the prime minister […]
Ukraine war, China lockdowns and Brexit help push up inflation, with products that rely on wheat worst hit Food price rises in the UK could hit 15% this summer – the highest level in more than 20 years – with inflation lasting into the middle of next year, according to […]
After cancellation of Africa flight, home secretary tries to stem claims from refugees hoping to stay in UK What is the ECHR and how did it intervene in Rwanda flights? Priti Patel has been accused by Labour of participating in a “government by gimmick” in the aftermath of the 11th-hour […]
The disgraced British socialite’s lawyers argued that she was threatened in jail and cannot be made proxy for Jeffrey Epstein Ghislaine Maxwell’s attorneys argued on Wednesday that the disgraced British socialite should be sentenced to “well below” the 20 years imprisonment that probation authorities have recommended in her New York […]
First flight to Rwanda grounded after lawyers make successful emergency application Boris Johnson’s plan to send an inaugural flight of asylum seekers to Rwanda has been abandoned after a dramatic 11th-hour ruling by the European court of human rights. Up to seven people who had come to the UK seeking […]
Due to the climate crisis, within 30 years these coastal properties will not be salvageable, researchers say Sea level rise will force the abandonment of about 200,000 coastal properties in England within 30 years, new data suggests, as the climate crisis takes hold. These are the homes that cannot be […]
Suspect is brother of first person held by police over disappearance of the British journalist and indigenous activist Police in Brazil say they have arrested a second man in connection with “the alleged murder” of the British journalist Dom Phillips and the Brazilian Indigenous defender Bruno Pereira. Oseney da Costa […]
Zelenskiy says outcome of battle for Donbas will determine course of the war; Russia calls on Ukrainian forces in Sievierodonetsk to lay down arms Russia-Ukraine war: latest updates Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the outcome of the battle for the Donbas region will determine the course of the war, adding […]