As Rishi Sunak comes under increasing pressure to intervene in the Tory general election betting scandal, senior figures are urging him to take action. The Prime Minister was called on to immediately suspend anyone under investigation from the party and launch a Cabinet Office investigation into the scandal. Party chairman Richard Holden, who is responsible… Read More »
More than 120 Conservative MPs, including Jeremy Hunt, Liz Truss, Sajid Javid and Gillian Keegan, have been revealed to have paid £100,000 of taxpayers’ money to the Conservatives’ in-house web design services. MPs used the Bluetree website service to design their websites. When invoiced by Bluetree, they would pay for the sites, then claim the… Read More »
The prisoner, who served 18 years after being sentenced to 23 months in prison, expressed his desperation for a “normal life” as he made his seventh bid to escape an indefinite prison sentence. Wayne Williams was imprisoned at the age of 17 for attempting to injure a police officer in a fight. When he was… Read More »
“I just want the boy back,” the father of missing British teenager Jay Slater said on Monday as he visited the remote spot in Tenerife where his son disappeared. As the search for Jay entered its sixth day, Warren Slater, speaking for the first time since the 19-year-old disappeared, spoke only a single sentence through… Read More »
I spend a lot of time in my local Waitrose because I find it comforting even if I don’t buy much. This is a kind of temple to soft British capitalism; a good-natured, eccentric mix of relatively high-quality foods whose chemicals and packaging are kept in check by countless regulations, whose prices are high but… Read More »
Mona Mahmoudi’s parents were among the first members of Iran’s Baha’i religious minority to be executed under the Islamic Republic’s decades-long crackdown. When her mother, the country’s first female meteorologist, was arrested along with seven others, her daughter wished for her immediate execution. “I knew they were going to be executed and I was hoping… Read More »
A thug left his ex-girlfriend beaten under the stairs, her bedroom walls and ceiling covered in blood. Joshua Benali’s victim was left with a missing tooth and broken bones after suffering a brutal attack in her own home following a surprise birthday party. Party. He surrendered to the police at his mother’s insistence. Liverpool Crown… Read More »
I load the remains of a family meal into the dishwasher. I don’t rinse and I just cram them haphazardly – bowls, plates, glasses – they’re all piled on top of each other. Knock, knock, crash. My husband is quiet, but I can almost feel his anger from the kitchen. When the machine crashes like… Read More »
Until last week, few people had heard of Horse Hill, near Horley in Surrey, and even fewer had been there. Britain’s Supreme Court has put this semi-rural backwater in southern England on the map by ruling against Surrey County Council’s decision to expand oil drilling permits in the area. In the process, it has put… Read More »
If you can bear it, let me take you back to the Conservative Party leadership election in the summer of 2022. Last week of July. Rishi Sunak appears in a Barbour jacket with a leafy landscape in the background and talks about the “extremely valuable” green belt. He says it is unacceptable that “green belt… Read More »