A crunch week for Sir Keir Starmer is set to continue on Monday as he updates the House of Commons on the latest revelations about Lord Mandelson’s appointment. No 10 on Friday night released a readout of a meeting between the Prime Minister and senior civil servants that appeared to corroborate that Sir Keir only […]
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Historian Anna Keay, whose most celebrated book is about Britain’s republican period, has been confirmed as Queen Elizabeth II’s official biographer. Ms Keay will be able to talk to members of the royal family and the late Queen’s friends and household when researching the book, and she will have access to her personal and official papers […]
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Zarah Sultana has said housing “is not an investment vehicle, it is a basic human need” after tabling a parliamentary motion to “ban MPs from being landlords”. Speaking to National Housing Demonstration protesters demanding better council housing and rent controls, the Your Party MP said: “We know that the housing crisis is not an accident, […]
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Police are treating the latest arson attack in north-west London as an antisemitic hate crime. Members of the Jewish community have been urged to “remain calm” as counter-terror police investigate it alongside a series of similar incidents. There have been “online claims of responsibility” for the arson and attempted arson attacks, said the Metropolitan Police, […]
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Sam Corbishley Published April 18, 2026 9:19pm Updated April 18, 2026 9:19pm Suspicious items found near the Israeli embassy in central London have been assessed as non-hazardous. Counter terror police are investigating whether the items – including two jars containing a powdered substance – are linked to a video posted by an Iran-linked Islamist group […]
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Roberto De Zerbi issued a rallying cry to his deflated Tottenham players and insisted they can win their last five Premier League games this season to avoid a catastrophic relegation. Spurs will spend another week in the bottom three after they suffered heartbreak in a 2-2 draw at home to Brighton when Georginio Rutter’s stoppage-time […]
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Members of the Jewish community have been urged to “remain calm” after an arson attack on a business in north London, which police acknowledged had “similarities” with other recent attacks on a nearby synagogue and a Jewish ambulance charity. The Metropolitan Police said that a man was seen to approach a row of shops in […]
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One of the most affecting of the many artist commissions that have found a home in the circulation spaces of the new V&A East museum is an exquisite indigo, cobalt blue and cyan stained-glass window, Towards a Civic Museum. Part of our series of New Work commissions, it was created by the Cuban artist Tania […]
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