At 1.50 in the morning on January 8, 2020, police officers in Reading found William Cameron walking his dog in the town centre and arrested him on suspicion of assault. He was 38 years old. Before he even reached the…
A Quiet Termination With Loud Implications The International Criminal Court has ended its insurance contract with the French multinational Axa, effective immediately, and is now in the process of securing a new health and life insurance provider. The termination, first…
What happened to the nurses? Between October 2022 and September 2023, ninety-two Pakistani nurses — the overwhelming majority of them women — were recruited for hospital positions in Saudi Arabia under a visa category designated “Nurse Highly Qualified.” They were…
A bilateral agreement between the United Kingdom and France that was presented as a landmark step in managing cross-Channel migration is now, by the account of senior French officials, weeks away from permanent dissolution. The so-called ‘one in, one out’…
Disciplinary Proceedings Opened Against Officers Who Used Taser, Pepper Spray and Baton on Vulnerable Pensioner Two Sussex Police officers who deployed a baton, pepper spray and a Taser against a 92-year-old amputee with dementia sitting in a wheelchair “acted hastily,…
For Fabio, a 33-year-old Italian engineer who arrived in London in 2018 to pursue a PhD and has since built a career and a life there, the letter from the Home Office arrived like a verdict on everything he had…
What happened in the early hours of Sunday morning? Shortly before 1am on Sunday, 27 September, a resident in the village of Whelford, Gloucestershire, noticed three white vans moving in the direction of RAF Fairford. She first called the airbase…
In December 2014, a teenage girl slipped out of east London and crossed into territory held by the Islamic State. She was among the first British schoolgirls to do so, and her departure would reverberate through the lives of several…
Scotland has recorded 1,133 drug-related deaths in a single year. The number is not an abstraction. Published by National Records of Scotland, the latest figures represent an 11 percent rise on the previous year — 116 additional fatalities — and…
A false audio clip circulated widely across British social media in the weeks before the 2024 general election. In it, a voice unmistakably resembling Wes Streeting — then a senior opposition figure, now the UK’s Defence Secretary — could be…