EU – Brexit down agenda again, Putin at top
The main agenda for today’s European Council meeting is a reminder of the many fronts on which the EU is threatened at the moment.
606 items found
The main agenda for today’s European Council meeting is a reminder of the many fronts on which the EU is threatened at the moment.
The vast human exodus from Aleppo has intensified. According to the Russian Ministry of Defence more than 20,000 civilians left besieged areas this morning joining the tens of thousands who have already fled this week.
Talk to anyone around Whitehall and you hear talk of the unique power of the Joint Chiefs of Staff working under Theresa May: Fiona Hill and Nick Timothy.
If the Gurkhas really want equality then their usefulness should be subjected to the same objective scrutiny lavished on other regiments and corps, writes former soldier Doug Beattie.
Tony Blair told US President George W Bush “I will be with you, whatever” eight months before parliament approved the invasion of Iraq, the Chilcot inquiry has found.
Police officers in England and Wales are being dismissed for misconduct at the rate of more than one a day.
The Prime Minister says he wants to stamp out an “industry trying to profit” from baseless claims against serving military personnel and veterans.
The Islamist group says Britain has made a “stupid decision” by sending troops back to Helmand province as its fighters battle Afghan forces for control of the strategic town of Sangin.
Within hours of MPs voting for air strikes over Syria, RAF jets have taken part in raids targeting an oil field under the control of so-called Islamic State (IS) militants.
The Commons is debating extending air strikes against Islamic State from Iraq to Syria. With Labour MPs given a free vote, the government is expected to win.
The justice training deal may be off, and there’s new hope for Karl Andree, the Brit sentenced to lashes in Saudi Arabia. What’s left of Britain’s relationship there?
The Government has no idea whether any houses have been built on public land sold off to housing developers since 2011, according to a damning report from the cross-party public accounts committee.
A Royal Marine jailed for the murder of a Taliban insurgent let his professional standards “slip to an unacceptably low level” and showed “poor leadership”, an internal review has found.
The asset sales being contemplated by Chancellor George Osborne only deliver some cuts and one-off benefits, briefly flattering the nation’s accounts.
The most astonishing aspect of today’s deal on Iran’s nuclear capability is that neither side is negotiating the terms of its defeat.