The agreement creates clear opportunities for both sides, but implementation will be more challenging and projected economic gains will be modest

Since he implemented new restrictions, net migration to the UK fell to 171,000 in 2025, almost half the number seen in 2024

Trump's allies and rivals seek new deterrence

The British government must decide whether to break its manifesto promise and approve new oil and gas drilling licences or stick to its decarbonising pledge. It may need to fudge it.

In a constituency just outside Manchester, voters could soon elect a challenger to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, but this is Brexit territory, as the nationalist Reform party of Nigel Farage knows.

Abbas Khider's novel The Memory Forger exposes the inherited structures of repression left behind by dictatorial regimes, and the hollow Western claims about human fraternity and equality.

What happens if America quits

Football star Lamine Yamal's hoisting of Palestine's flag, and the Eurovision audience's booing of Israel's contestant, show how Israel has lost its PR edge

Britons seem fed up with establishment parties after Labour's disastrous performance in this week's local elections, and the Tories' similar failure two years ago

Labour's disastrous showing in the local elections and gains made by the Reform party have sparked calls for Starmer to step down, but he remains defiant