Labour arrived in power with no big idea on the future relationship with the EU, a former British ambassador to Brussels has said. Ivan Rogers, Britain’s EU ambassador from 2013 to 2017, said Labour presented “a ragbag of issues” on the EU in its manifesto, which didn’t “remotely measure up to the challenge of the times” and would “make no measurable difference to the UK macroeconomy”. A decade after Britain’s vote to leave the EU, Rogers said it was “close to incomprehensible” that Keir Starmer
As soon as Iran choked off oil supplies through the strait of Hormuz at the start of March, there were dire warnings about rocketing UK inflation and the drastic action the Bank of England might take to rein it in. At one point, investors were expecting as many as three quarter-point rises in interest rates before the end of the year – a sharp turnaround from earlier forecasts of rate cuts. Yet since then a series of economic readings have come in better than forecast. Wednesday’s news that infl
Israeli nationalists are increasingly flouting a convention on how faiths share the al-Aqsa mosque compound.
The Australian federal police is investigating a protest incident during Pauline Hanson’s speech at the National Press Club after political activist group GetUp claimed responsibility for the stunt. In a statement on Wednesday afternoon, the National Press Club said it had referred the incident to police after concluding none of its own staff were involved. About 20 minutes into Hanson’s inflammatory address on Wednesday, a banner was unfurled behind her. The banner included an edited black-and-
For months, voters have been telling anyone who’ll listen that they want Pauline Hanson. Pollsters, journalists and the (current) political establishment have all heard how the major parties are letting down the country and One Nation is the answer. On Wednesday, in a wild show at the National Press Club in Canberra, voters got a good taste of just what Hansonism has to offer. No longer claiming to be a political outsider, Hanson explained just what One Nation would do to remake the country. It’
Fox News · Oct 8
Officials on Tuesday released new details about the five suspects accused of plotting a "mass casualty event" targeting President Donald Trump and other high-profile officials during the UFC Freedom 250 event held at the White House on Sunday. Prosecutors allege the group, who were arrested in June during a multi-state sweep, coordinated an ambush involving explosive-laden drones intended to strike the north side of the White House. The suspects were identified as Tycen C. Proper, 19, of Ohio; B
Fox News · Oct 8
As the New World screwworm returns to American soil for the first time since its eradication 60 years ago, Texas is now on the front line of Mexico's threat to U.S. sovereignty and national security. The return of New World screwworm to the United States began with the collapse of the biological containment barrier in Central America that broke in 2021 when millions of illegal aliens were moved through the Darién Gap, overwhelming border controls and expanding the cartel-controlled smuggling cor
NBC News · Oct 8
Wednesday will be Kevin Warsh’s first meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee as its chairman.
NBC News · Oct 8
The Supreme Court has 20 cases left to decide in its current term, with the next ruling day set for Thursday.
