MI6 spies and SAS troops among UK nationals’ details in Afghan data leak
More than 100 British officials reportedly affected in 2022 Ministry of Defence data breach that surfaced a year later on Facebook
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UK move to lower voting age to 16 unlikely to be in place for Northern Irish elections
First Minister Michelle O’Neill says UK law change is a ‘step forward for democracy’ but DUP opposes lowering voting age
Eight healthy babies born in UK after IVF using DNA from three people
Births follow change of UK law in 2015 to allow these procedures
Ireland is learning what Britain has already discovered: the status quo does not endure
Just like Britain was left staring into the abyss after Brexit, Ireland is wondering why we ever left the economy so vulnerable to the whims of an irrational actor like Trump
Many people won’t decide how to vote in a Border poll until they see what’s on offer
Why can’t Sinn Féin spell out exactly what it means by a united Ireland and allow unionists to consider it?
Reporting restrictions lifted on secret UK Afghan immigration scheme
‘Super-injunction’ lifted two years after 25,000 were placed at risk of Taliban reprisals
UK and France agree one in, one out migrant returns scheme
French president blames Brexit for making it harder to tackle illegal migration
Human Resources: Slavery and the Making of Modern Britain – Ireland was not exempt from involvement
Podcast duo explore society’s inability to reckon with the legacy of the transatlantic slave trade
Bayeux Tapestry to return to UK for first time in more than 900 years
Artwork depicting 1066 Norman invasion of England and Battle of Hastings to go on display at the British Museum in 2026
UK Post Office scandal report finds dozens contemplated suicide over their experiences
Horizon software scandal saw more than 1,000 post office operators wrongly accused of taking money from their branches
The roots of the British malaise lie in a sick economy
Political responses to a bad situation tend towards either charlatanism or timidity
UK desperate to stay inside fiscal rules, Ireland couldn’t care less
After big U-turns, Starmer and Reeves have boxed themselves into a corner
‘Ireland’s first serial killer’ John Shaw could be freed from prison in early 2026
Murderer is applying for parole and could be freed from Dublin prison early next year, 50 years after the murders of Elizabeth Plunkett and Mary Duffy
The Irish Times view on young people and democracy: increasing disenchantment
The growing alienation from politics reflects the sense among young people that the system has failed them
The Boys by Leo Robson: ‘I enjoyed it as I enjoy a packet of crisps at the pub’
The Boys luxuriates in a particular kind of north London nostalgia, decisively slotting into the traditions and tropes of a distinctly British literature
‘Worst of any prime minister’: Ten moments that defined Labour’s first year in power in the UK
From a ‘loveless landslide’ to excessive gloom and a climbdown forced by his own MPs, the UK prime minister has endured a torrid first 12 months in office
Mother and baby home survivor upset by absence of 1,090 infants from key report
‘No mention’ of babies who died at Sean Ross Abbey or of need to investigate anomalies on land, says campaigner
Lucy Letby: Prosecutors consider further charges over alleged murder of more babies
Letby was previously convicted for murdering seven babies and attempting to murder seven others
Lucy Letby case roils Britain’s legal and medical establishments
Cheshire police arrest three senior staff from Countess of Chester hospital, where Letby worked before her conviction for murder of babies
New York Times and ‘Germany’s Wordle’ owner seek to reschedule UK trademark hearing on Wordle
Hearing is part of dispute between NYT and Hamburg-based puzzle maker over trademark rights to the name Wordle
Britain’s ambassador takes Darragh O’Brien’s name gaffe like a diplomat at summer garden party
‘We’ve so fallen in love with the city, country and people,’ says Paul Johnston, announcing he is to stay in Dublin
British ambassador to leave diplomatic service but remain in Dublin after ‘falling in love with the city’
‘The people we’ve met have been the highlight of our time here,’ says Paul Johnston
This is the moment when we find out just how mad a king Donald is
The former opponent of forever wars in the Middle East is debating dropping bombs there without military provocation against the US
Grenfell Uncovered on Netflix: First-rate journalism highlights how working class victims were left waiting for answers
Television: Immediate aftermath of tragedy carries clear echoes of official response to Stardust blaze
Person in UK dies from rabies after contact with stray dog while on holiday
Just six cases of rabies linked to overseas infection in UK since 2000
Rory Stewart: Britons’ view of Ireland has gone from ‘patronising superiority to complete ignorance’
Ireland is the UK’s best route back to better ties with the EU, says the former Conservative minister
David Beckham and Gary Oldman receive British knighthoods in king’s birthday honours
Beckham had been on verge of receiving knighthood in 2014 before red flag stopped his nomination
World on verge of ratifying key treaty to protect oceans
Failure to significantly scale up protection of oceans from deep sea mining and sea beds from 'bottom trawling' was widely criticised
Police revise death toll of Air India crash to more than 240, with dozens more casualties suspected
Sole survivor, a British-Indian man, described scene of devastation after plane crashed into building
Family of murdered GAA official to continue legal battle for public inquiry
Northern Secretary says inquiry into killing of Seán Brown `not the best way to proceed’
Traveller youth take the reins as crowds visit Appleby Horse Fair
Annual equine festival is display of pride by Irish and British Travellers and Romany Gypsies
The Sleep Room by Jon Stock: Could an Irish version of this frightening scandal in British psychiatry yet emerge?
A chillling account of psychiatrist William Sargent’s treatment of women patients in the 1960s
Mother and son risk death in solidarity with each other
Political issues eclipsed by the love and worry of a daughter and sister
Britain to move closer to ‘warfighting readiness’ as review calls for defence overhaul
Strategic defence review launched in Westminster as UK government promises investment
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