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as climate change drives increasingly intense and frequent heatwaves to the UK, experts are calling for better awareness of the risks to women and more targeted efforts to protect them

Elon Musk is set to meet Rupert Lowe, the MP leading a rival right-wing party to Reform UK, after the tech billionaire fell out with Nigel Farage. Lowe said he would meet the tech billionaire on Sunday as part of a trip to the US, which has included visits to Texas and Washington. The MP appeared in a two-hour interview on the Joe Rogan Experience, one of the world’s most popular podcasts. Lowe split from Farage early last year after Reform UK accused him of bullying, which he denies. Restore Britain was founded by Lowe soon after. A candidate for...

Some of the UK’s top judges are hearing arguments over whether a Trinidad and Tobago court had the legal right to overturn a 2018 ruling to remove colonial-era homophobic laws that criminalise anal sex between consenting men. The country’s “buggery law”, often referred to as its “sodomy” law, was created in 1925 and was written into Trinidad and Tobago’s 1986 Sexual Offences Act. In 2017 a Trinidadian LGBTQ+ rights activist, Jason Jones, challenged the law, and in 2018 a high court ruled that it infringed upon his constitutional right to privacy and equality. Last year a court of appeal quashed...

Rupert Lowe is a British politician who has served as the member of Parliament for Great Yarmouth since 2024 and the leader of Restore Britain.

A gamble by Nigel Farage, leader of Britain's populist Reform UK, to trigger an election for his own parliamentary seat could mean the only opponent he will face during campaigning is a man with a trash can on his head, ‌better known as Count Binface. Farage, 62, under investigation in parliament over millions of pounds of gifts from wealthy backers, has said he wants voters in ‌his Clacton electoral district, in southeast England, to judge his actions, not what he characterises as a liberal "establishment" bent on discrediting him. Many voters in the beach town, which is famous for its...

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Labour, the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats, the Green Party and Restore Britain have all ruled out contesting the Clacton by-election triggered by the resignation of Nigel Farage. The Reform UK leader said that, having announced his resignation, he would re-fight the Essex seat in what he billed as a "people versus the establishment" by-election. Facing increasing scrutiny over his finances and a parliamentary investigation, Farage said the "people of Clacton should be the judge of my actions". Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said the by-election "shouldn't be happening" and accused Farage of throwing a "political tantrum" as a distraction. "Nobody is...

The £50million phone hacking case brought by Prince Harry, Doreen Lawrence and a raft of other high-profile figures against the publishers of the Daily Mail was today dismissed in full. The case brought by the Duke of Sussex and six fellow claimants, including Sir Elton John and Elizabeth Hurley, was heard at a three-month trial at London's High Court at the beginning of this year. The trial judge, Mr Justice Nicklin, accepted that every article complained about was lawfully sourced. The claim was brought against Associated Newspapers, which publishes the Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday. In an executive...

Nigel Farage says he will resign as an MP for Clacton, triggering a by-election which he says he will stand in

Nigel Farage has triggered a frenzy of speculation that he could quit as Reform UK leader. He posted on X that he would be making a statement at 2pm on Tuesday on his future in public life. The move stunned Westminster as Reform is still leading in the polls and Mr Farage has only recently been talking up the prospects of him being Prime Minister after his party’s success in the May local elections. But Mr Farage has faced a growing barrage of questions over financial support he has received.

A SLEEK superyacht cuts through crystal-clear water, like something from a Bond movie, and you wonder which high-rollers might be living it up on board. But this promo video, complete with dreamy music wafting on the air, is not for luxury holidays. Very far from it. Instead, The Sun can today reveal a British-Albanian gang is busy smuggling hardened criminals across the Channel into the UK on such vessels — and many have previously served jail time here then been deported. It arouses less suspicion than the countless rubber dinghies crossing daily from France, and yachts docking at small marinas...

Nigel Farage's seat in Clacton could be under threat after he was referred to Parliament's standards watchdog amid a new funding row. The Reform UK leader claimed he is the victim of an "establishment hit job" after an outcry over financial support given to him by a convicted criminal. George Cottrell, who was jailed in the US for wire fraud in 2017, allegedly provided funding for Mr Farage's operation, including staffing, security and the use of a London townhouse, according to The Sunday Times. If he is found to have broken the MPs' code of conduct, Mr Farage could be...

American video-sharing platform YouTube told users in Britain that, under pressure from the left-wing Labour Party government, independent creators will likely see their content suppressed. The British government has been accused of attempting to silence political opposition, with YouTube telling UK creators that proposed new rules would include a “prominence regime” that would force sites like YouTube to give a “privileged position” to the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, and other legacy media. The notice said that artificially propping up establishment media would naturally result in independent media being downranked and obscured from view, as “pushing this group forward means pushing...

On paper, the US constitution is a thing of beauty. But the would-be emperor in Washington has revealed its great weaknessAmerica’s big birthday has come at a bad time. On Saturday it will be a divided nation that marks 250 years since 13 North American colonies declared their independence from the Great Britain of George III. Many will be anxious that the republic they established that day is fragile – not least because of the would-be emperor in the White House.Some will console themselves that hope and angst have always been intertwined in the American story. From the very start,...

The one found in London, printed in Exeter, New Hampshire, in mid-July 1776, is the 11th surviving copy of the so-called "Exeter Declarations," and is the first to be found outside the United States.

Talking to LBC's Sunday with Lewis Goodall, the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party called for more restrictions on social media usage around the date of elections, calling for rules to be aligned with current broadcasting restrictions. "We absolutely need to strengthen regulation in the social media place," she told LBC, adding that she already has some proposals to put forward, "especially when it’s election time,” as part of a current bill being looked at in Parliament. "We’ve got an elections bill going through the House of Commons at the moment; to strengthen that bill, so that social media comes...

U.S. Vice President JD Vance said ⁠Britain ⁠had been "failed by its leadership for ⁠a long time," adding that he hoped the country's next prime minister ​could deliver the structural change voters were seeking after years of political turmoil. In an interview with the Sunday ‌Times newspaper, Vance said frequent changes ‌of government pointed to deeper problems in British politics. Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced last month ⁠he would ⁠step down after two years in office, paving the way for Britain's ​seventh prime minister in a decade. Lawmaker Andy Burnham is widely expected to succeed Starmer after emerging as the...

A British criminal court on Friday handed down multi-year prison terms to two Romanian citizens found guilty of knifing an anti-regime broadcaster outside his residence, a targeted assault the presiding judge explicitly attributed to the directives of the Iranian government, The Associated Press reported. Pouria Zeraati, a prominent host for the London-headquartered, opposition-affiliated network Iran International, survived being stabbed in the thigh during the March 2024 ambush outside his suburban Wimbledon home. Zeraati later left the UK and moved to Israel, saying he feels “much safer" in the Jewish state. Following a jury trial last month, a 21-year-old and a...

A rare copy of the Declaration of Independence lost for 250 years has been discovered in London, where it is the only known example of its kind outside the U.S. Printed in Exeter, New Hampshire, just days after the Declaration was adopted on July 4, 1776, the document was intended to spread news of American independence throughout the American colonies. The early copy remained tucked away in Britain’s National Archives until a volunteer cataloging records from the American Revolutionary War came across it in May among the papers of Royal Navy captains. Only 11 copies of the so-called Exeter printing...

There’s nothing like a heatwave to shine a light on the medieval lunacy of eco-alarmism. The minute the thermometer spikes, all the bourgeois doomsayers are on their soapboxes haranguing humankind. This is ‘hell on Earth’, they cry. It’s ‘global boiling’, they wail. A ‘hound from hell’ is dragging the heat of the ‘Underworld’ into our world, say media scribes, like absolute nutters, blissfully unaware of what faux-priestly, pre-modern fools they sound to the rest of us. And of course – you already know this – it’s all our fault. We brought this hell upon ourselves by flying and driving and...