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A tape apparently recorded by murdered Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko a year before he was poisoned has revealed he was digging up links between Vladimir Putin and one of the world’s most dangerous terrorists. A Telegraph investigation uncovered the audio recording, in which the dissident claims from beyond the grave that Russia’s president had a “good relationship” with Semion Mogilevich - a Ukrainian crime boss who was on the FBI's most wanted list and whom Mr Litvinenko believed was selling weapons to al-Qaeda. The apparent recording of Mr Litvinenko is published for the first time ahead of a public inquiry...

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...

A confidential memorandum from Justice Secretary David Lammy has exposed the Government's intention to eliminate jury trials for the majority of criminal cases, restricting them solely to murder, rape, manslaughter and matters of public interest. The dramatic overhaul of the criminal justice system has been revealed through documents marked "sensitive and official", which outline the most significant changes to trial procedures in decades. Under the proposed reforms, all remaining criminal offences would be determined by judges sitting without juries, fundamentally altering how crime and punishment is administered in England and Wales. The radical restructuring represents Labour's response to the overwhelming...

Labour’s tax rises have led to an exodus of wealthy Britons, the business secretary has admitted. Peter Kyle said he accepted that “some of the decisions” the party had made since taking office had caused “some people [to] feel the need to leave”. Asked if the wealthy were opting to leave because of tax decisions made by the government, he said: “Yes, I do.” He added: “I’m not going to duck the fact that we have put up taxes and we’ve closed some of the loopholes for non-doms.” ...

As many as 25 areas across the UK could be hit by power cuts due to a 15-hour snowstorm coming today (Tuesday, November 18). Households are being warned of potential disruption from an Arctic blast, affecting travel and power supplies in various parts of Scotland, while a separate ice warning has been issued for the north of England. The Met Office has issued a 15-hour yellow weather warning for snow, starting at 3am on Tuesday, November 18 and continuing through to 6pm, impacting seven areas in Scotland. Meanwhile, in England, a yellow weather warning for ice could also bring snow...

We took Trump’s big speech, cut the calm and the peace, 0:21 Played “fight like hell” loud—let the violence increase! 0:26 Panorama’s slick trick, made him sound like a beast, 0:30 Now he’s suing for billions—we'll find ourselves fleeced! 0:34 Heave-ho for the fee, lads, the license we seize! 0:39 How else fund our far-left fairy-tales on the seas? 0:43 Subscription? Ha! Racist Brits won’t pay for our glow, 0:47 Shake the coins from their pockets or the whole ship’ll go! .....

Fly-tippers have dumped a "grotesque" mountain of waste in a field in Oxfordshire. The "environmental catastrophe unfolding in plain sight" is up to 150m (490ft) long and 6m (20ft) high and has appeared on a site between the River Cherwell and the A34 near Kidlington. Calum Miller, Liberal Democrat MP for Bicester and Woodstock, has raised the issue in Parliament, saying it was "threatening an environmental disaster". He also said Cherwell District Council had estimated the cost of removing the waste would be greater than its entire annual budget. "This is not a licensed waste site and we can just...

A five-year-old girl has been ordered to keep the surname of her rapist father after a High Court judge found it formed a key part of the child's identity and heritage. Mr Justice Peel made the ruling at an appeal in relation to a child, referred to in court as D, despite the history of serious domestic abuse. D's mother argued that her daughter being tied to the name of a rapist was retraumatising. The child has not seen her father - who was found to have committed four 'very serious' incidents of sexual abuse against the mother between 2015...

PLEASE DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS ON SOCIAL MEDIA !! We are interested in hearing from any Christian individual who has the experience of living and working (or having lived and worked), for 1,000 days or longer, inside of a country governed by a totalitarian or authoritarian system or regime; that governing system/regime being either religious or atheistic. When we say, totalitarian or authoritarian, we give as examples: communist, National Socialist, authoritarian military junta, Islamic or Mohammedan, or the like. If otherwise, you may describe your own situation, and we may find that it applies. We hope to form a...

Julie Benson has had to "fight" to have a DNR order removed from her sister, who has cerebral palsy and epilepsy but enjoys a "good life".Families have slammed the NHS for putting "do not resuscitate" orders on disabled patients without their consent. An investigation by ITV News found that multiple UK hospitals have put blanket 'Do Not Attempt Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation' (DNR) orders on at least 12 patients with learning disabilities after being ordered to stop the practice five years ago. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) said the blanket imposition of DNRs on disabled people had caused potentially avoidable deaths in...

The Labour government has been meeting with a charity accused of trying to indoctrinate children with pro-asylum seeker, open borders nonsense. Education ministers met with Schools of Sanctuary three times this year. This is the charity that goes into schools and told children as young as five to write valentines day cards to asylum seekers. Why would you do that? A Freedom of Information request has revealed shocking new details. During meetings with this Labour Government, Schools of Sanctuary were asked to name schools that were refusing to take refugee or asylum seeker children. They were also asked to name...

Public records show that the late queen’s second son received official payments from the public purse as a working royal between 1978 and 2010. In 2011, David Cameron, while prime minister, decided to change the way the monarchy was funded by taxpayers. As part of this change, Cameron, a self-described “passionate monarchist”, deliberately prevented the regular publication of how much public money Andrew and the other Windsors received. The last published figure for how much public money Andrew received is £249,000 a year in 2010. After that, the queen made direct payments to him from her own private wealth while...

It’s been a weird year for Spanish tourism. Scroll through the British press and you’d think Spaniards are fed up with tourists altogether, from protests in Mallorca to “Tourists go home” graffiti in Barcelona. But behind this noise, travel experts say something else is happening: misinformation. Now, British travel agencies have had enough. The UK’s main travel association, ABTA, has launched a guide to help agents explain the situation to worried clients. In doing so, they push back against what they call a “distorted picture” of Spain’s relationship with tourism. A guide for Brits travelling to Spain Speaking at the...

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?

Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he is not “afraid” of Donald Trump unlike other western leaders and dismissed reports that their last meeting in Washington was volatile, adding that he had good relations with the US president. He also said in an exclusive interview with the Guardian that King Charles had helped build relations with Trump and described the British monarch as “very supportive” of Ukraine. The Ukrainian president denied claims Trump had tossed maps of the battlefield aside in a stormy exchange in October at the White House, where he had arrived hoping to secure supplies of US Tomahawk cruise...

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...

Even as the Epstein scandal engulfed the royals, the Queen “never changed her stance on Andrew.” “The late Queen, of course, adored her second son and continued to support him after his disgrace,” Jobson wrote, adding, “In her final days she kept him close, shielding him as Palace insiders continued to push for his total exile.” “She confided her support to a trusted confidant,” Jobson wrote. “‘You have to remember, he is my son.’” But while the Queen’s loyalty was unwavering, her eldest son had to take the difficult route. Following Mountbatten Windsor’s disastrous 2019 Newsnight interview, it was Charles,...

A senior EU official has said he expects the US "not to interfere" in global climate negotiations in Brazil next week, citing aggressive behavior at last month’s International Maritime Organization (IMO) meetings in London. At those talks, US officials reportedly intimidated diplomats from Africa and the so-called Small Island States, warning some they might lose US transit rights or face entry restrictions for themselves and their families if they did not help block the UN-backed Net Zero Framework for shipping. The official said they were unaware whether commission staff had been targeted directly. “We have no indication our colleagues were...

It emerged that one convicted member of the gang, Adil Khan, will not be able to return to the countryAn MP has once again called for a member of a Rochdale grooming gang to be deported after his accomplice fled the UK. It comes after it emerged that one convicted member of the gang, Adil Khan, will not be able to return to the country after fleeing the UK. Khan, who is aged in his 50s, was among nine gang members jailed in 2012 for sexually abusing children in the borough. Khan, then in his 40s, impregnated one girl and...