On Monday, a “monster boat” carrying 230 illegal migrants arrived in Dover, said Sue Reid in the Daily Mail. The 15-metre vessel, “longer than a doubledecker bus” and containing “enough passengers to fill an airliner”, was the biggest ever to...
In the silent countryside south of Grantham, three vast steel barns rattled in the breeze. Gathered in a loose circle beside them were 15 landowners, land agents and a couple of young investors; all expensively dressed men, many with a sceptical...
When Amy Hunt scooped a silver medal at the World Championships in Tokyo last summer, she said it proved to young girls everywhere that you could be an “academic badass and a track goddess”. Last week, the 24-year-old Cambridge graduate...
What happened in summer 1976? There was a record-breaking heatwave, inflation and youth unemployment were worryingly high, a Labour prime minister had recently resigned – and a new subculture known as “punk” was spreading rapidly among...
Reform UK followed up Nigel Farage’s victory in the Clacton by-election by unveiling plans to cut £50bn from Britain’s welfare bill. The party said that, if it forms the next government, it will ban foreign nationals living in the UK from...
England and Wales experienced the first spell of unsettled weather since mid-June this week, bringing some respite from relentlessly hot and dry conditions. It followed the fifth heatwave of the year, which peaked last Thursday with...
