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The United Kingdom needs to be turned off and rebooted. No, I take that back. It needs a whole new operating system. The current one has become infected with a virus that has scrambled everything, and there is no way to set things right. In the opposite world view this is totally fine. pic.twitter.com/v5CahE52GL— Rich Stewart 🔰 (@richdstew) November 29, 2025If you think this story is bonkers, it really is only the tip of the iceberg. An IT consultant was arrested by police in Britain after he posted a picture online of himself posing with a gun in the US....

Whatever happened to Britain, or the UK, or England, or whatever they’re calling it? We can’t even agree on what it’s called. But what happened to England, the England that, if you’re over 50, you grew up learning about, the England that controlled the world, the England that ran the largest empire in human history at the end of the first world war? Britain, which is an island in a pretty inhospitable climate, controlled something like a quarter of the Earth’s surface – and not controlled in the way the United States controls the rest of the world with an...

West Yorkshire Police arrested a British business owner over a picture he posted on social media of himself holding a gun in the United States. IT contractor Jon Richelieu-Booth told the Yorkshire Post that in August, he posted a picture on the networking site LinkedIn of himself holding a shotgun at a friend’s homestead in Florida. He was visited by local police, who warned him about the post and told him to be “careful” about what he says online and “how it makes people feel.” Eleven days after the post, West Yorkshire Police officers returned and arrested Richelieu-Booth over allegedly...

Whatever happened to Britain, or the UK, or England, or whatever they’re calling it? We can’t even agree on what it’s called. But what happened to England, the England that, if you’re over 50, you grew up learning about, the England that controlled the world, the England that ran the largest empire in human history at the end of World War One? Britain, which is an island in a pretty inhospitable climate, controlled literally a quarter of the Earth’s surface – and not controlled in the way the United States controls the rest of the world with an implied threat...

54 years since the UK last launched a satellite from British soil—now a House of Lords report demands we "urgently distance" from Elon Musk’s SpaceX, which carries half our satellites. Is this dependence a crisis—or a golden opportunity? We unpack the £1.2B plan, Shetland’s new spaceport, Brexit’s space fallout, and why sovereignty matters without ditching the world’s best rockets. Time to launch from Britain again?

David Lammy faced mockery from Labour and Tories alike over claims that he insists civil servants call him 'Deputy Prime Minister'. Mr Lammy, whose other main job is Justice Secretary, allegedly orders Ministry of Justice (MoJ) staff to use his 'DPM' title first. Sources close to Mr Lammy denied the claim, saying: ‘This is just mischievous briefing.

Although he has a chestful of medals and a proud record as the country’s oldest poppy seller, Alec Penstone insists he is not a hero. ‘The heroes are all the dead ones. The heroes are the ones we left in the Arctic and on the Normandy beaches,’ the 100-year-old says from his home on the Isle of Wight. But, in the eyes of the millions of proud Britons who saw him give a damning assessment of the state of the nation on ITV’s Good Morning Britain on Friday, the D-Day veteran – who fittingly was born on St George’s Day...

MI5 believed a hardcore of around 750 teachers was attempting to spread communist propaganda in British schools in the wake of the second world war, documents released today show. A secret MI5 memo written in August 1949, released by the National Archives at Kew, west London, charts apparent efforts to recruit teachers and infiltrate the leadership of the National Union of Teachers. The document, which traces a Soviet-backed drive to free worldwide education from capitalist "enslavement" back to 1920, also reports attempts to penetrate teaching in British colonies in the early post-war period. The report was written against a backdrop...

Britain’s post colonial reckoning can be summed up in a single sentence delivered last June at the Glastonbury music festival when rapper duo Bob Vylan shouted “You want your country back? You’re not getting it back!” to an overwhelmingly white, middle-class audience roaring its approval. The message was unmistakable: Britain has been colonized – and its dominant culture not only accepts, but celebrates, it. Britain’s transformation has been driven not by invasion, but by invitation. The country’s population, political culture and national cohesion has been radically reshaped by immigration – one wave in the 1950s, driven by post-World War Two...

Archaeologists from Bournemouth University have uncovered the remains of a teenage girl buried face down in a pit in Dorset, southern England—an extraordinary discovery that may point to one of Britain’s earliest recorded cases of human sacrifice. The burial, dated to around 2,000 years ago, sheds new light on the ritual practices of the Iron Age Durotriges tribe, who inhabited the region long before the Roman conquest.The skeleton, discovered during ongoing excavations at an Iron Age settlement, was found without grave goods and in a position that deviates sharply from normal burial customs of the time. Researchers believe her hands...

SUMMARY Emergency services have been called after "multiple people" were stabbed on a train travelling in Cambridgeshire Two people have been arrested, Cambridgeshire Police say - pictures show them responding to the scene at Huntingdon station There are no fatalities, but ten people are in hospital - with nine believed to have life-threatening injuries - according to British Transport Police The train involved was the 18:25 service from Doncaster to London King's Cross An eyewitness told the BBC they saw a man bolting down the carriage with a bloody arm, saying "they've got a knife, run", and a man collapsed...

The jailing of a failed asylum seeker for randomly murdering a restaurant owner is only the latest serious crime by an illegal migrant to come to public attention in recent days. Today, an Afghan refugee was also charged with a triple stabbing in Uxbridge which caused the death of a dog walker. MPs and campaigners today described the cases as further proof of the damage caused by the government's failure to control Britain's borders. Safi Dawood, 22, is accused of one count of murder, two counts of attempted murder, and possession of an offensive weapon. During the rampage a 45-year-old...

An Afghan national who entered the UK in a lorry in 2020 remains in custody being questioned by police over a fatal stabbing in Uxbridge. A 49-year-old man, named locally as Wayne Broadhurst, was killed in the incident on Monday evening, while two others were injured in what police called a “senseless act of violence”. The Home Office confirmed that the man arrested over the stabbing entered the UK in a lorry before claiming asylum, which was granted in 2022. Officials also confirmed that he is not resident in an asylum hotel or any other Home Office accommodation, despite claims...

Ian Miles Cheong @stillgray The assailant in the mass stabbing that occurred in Britain earlier today has been identified as a 22 year old asylum seeker from Afghanistan who snuck into the country on a truck. He killed a man walking his dog and also stabbed a teen and another victim.

Two gay men in Britain welcomed a refugee into their home… He wound up chopping off both of their heads and stuffed their bodies into suitcases…

A terror attack, mass protests and institutional responses show an England on the edgeI went to England on a history vacation. It turned into an archaeological expedition, uncovering the bones of a once-great civilization. All the tourist sites are still there. You can still see the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace, recall the "V" for victory in the Churchill War Rooms or be inspired to pray at Westminster Abbey. But those are mere historical artifacts, like the pyramids of Egypt or the Acropolis in Greece. The ideals and most of the people who believe in them are long...

McVitie’s Penguins and Club biscuits are no longer allowed to carry the word “chocolate” on the label due to a recipe reformulation caused by cocoa prices soaring over 150 per cent in 2024–2025 and hitting $10,000 per tonne in April.UK regulations require 25 per cent cocoa solids for milk chocolate coatings, but Pladis, McVitie’s owner, reduced cocoa content below that threshold and opted for palm and shea oils to keep costs down. The iconic Club slogan, “If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit, join our Club,” became “If you like a lot of biscuit in your break,...

An illegal immigrant attempted to kidnap a schoolgirl off the street before heroic bystanders intervened. Abdulmawal Ibrahim Adam, 27, from Sudan, tried to snatch the terrified 17-year-old girl at around 9.30pm as she walked home from work in Swindon. CCTV showed Adam drag the girl across a road 'against her will' after he approached her at a set of traffic lights from behind.

The United Kingdom has slapped 4Chan with a £20,000 (around $26,000) fine in a bid to clamp down on platforms that are hindering Online Safety Act (OSA) investigations. UK telecoms regulator Ofcom says the fine was issued after the controversial social media site ignored “legally-binding information requests” related to global revenue and its illegal harms risk assessment. Starting from tomorrow, 4Chan additionally faces a daily penalty of £100 (around $133) for either 60 days or until 4Chan complies with the information requests, up to a maximum of £6,000 (around $8,000). “Today sends a clear message that any service which flagrantly...

A crisis of democratic legitimacy in Britain: should people accept being ruled — and oppressed — by judges or “experts” without a popular mandate? The United Kingdom is facing a confluence of challenges that strike at the very heart of its democratic legitimacy, national sovereignty, and social cohesion. At issue are, not only institutional convolutions but also growing public disillusionment with how justice is administered, how power is exercised, and how British identity is being reshaped — without the explicit consent of the people. Pressing concerns are the erosion of “parliamentary sovereignty”, the rise of unaccountable judicial and bureaucratic influence,...