Is George Osborne changing the shape of the state?
The asset sales being contemplated by Chancellor George Osborne only deliver some cuts and one-off benefits, briefly flattering the nation’s accounts.
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The UK could launch more secret drone strikes in Syria if there is a threat to the “streets of Britain”, Defence Secretary Michael Fallon says.
Lord Janner must attend a hearing over the 22 child sex abuse charges he faces, chief magistrate Howard Riddle rules.
The asset sales being contemplated by Chancellor George Osborne only deliver some cuts and one-off benefits, briefly flattering the nation’s accounts.
John Whittingdale says that his BBC green paper will consider a subscription model for the corporation in the long term as it is revealed the future of Radio 1 and 2 are under review.
Ten years on, the head of MI5 says 7/7 delivered a step change “in the nation’s counter terrorism defences”.
Is the rise of the Islamic State the biggest threat to the UK’s security and safety in the history of the country?
An army officer told a grieving family it would have been “too much paperwork” to cancel an SAS test march which led to three deaths, a coroner hears.
A man who was abused at Kincora children’s home in Belfast is demanding that what happened there decades ago should be included in the UK-wide inquiry set up by the government.
The Tories attack Labour over the renewal of Britain’s Trident nuclear deterrent – a huge military project that could cost almost £100bn – saying Ed Miliband is ready to “stab the UK in the back”.
Foreign policy: two words that have so far played very little part in the run-up to the general election. What would the parties do?
The US is to export armed drones to sell to its military allies around the world, a move that has been welcomed by the arms industry but provoked outrage among human rights campaigners.
A recorder teacher at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, one of Britain’s leading arts schools, is jailed for 11 years for raping and indecently assaulting young female pupils during lessons.
In a first for the US military Chelsea Manning, the soldier serving 35-years in prison for sending classified documents to Wikileaks, is to receive hormone therapy as part of her gender reassignment.
For years, the British police have had a problem with rape. Investigations falter, forces record allegations as “no crime”, and women are reluctant to come forward with claims in the first place.
For the first time in nearly a decade and a half we are not formally at war – but exactly how many “security” or “military” people we have left behind in Iraq and Afghanistan is an imprecise matter.