Birmingham’s rubbish piles high against walls covered in pro-Palestine graffiti
Birmingham Letter: The city’s bin strike crisis is being portrayed as a symbol of ‘Broken Britain’
Nigel Farage gears up for Reform UK’s ‘big moment’ in May 1st elections
Council and mayoral votes and crucial Westminster byelection will give clearer picture of whether Farage’s party can meet the hype
Labour bets on growth to fund UK’s future but US tariffs could ruin it all
Chancellor Rachel Reeves is ‘walking a fiscal tightrope’ after her slasher spring statement
Britain’s fiscal watchdog warns of danger of trade war as UK government slashes spending
UK’s chancellor of the exchequer Rachel Reeves plans £6bn reduction in spending to remain within her fiscal target
Reflections from sunny Greenwich as the clocks change to summer time
London Letter: East London town was an imperial hub for standards of time and navigation
The experience of Irish Britons: ‘If you’re English and Irish at the same time like I am, it’s a bit of a problem’
The Irish identity of people born in Britain, where six million have at least one Irish grandparent, can be complex and personal...
More Guinness diplomacy from Keir Starmer as he hosts Irish party in Number 10
Eclectic guest list included drag queen Blu Hydrangea, broadcaster Dermot O’Leary and Olympic swimming champion Daniel Wiffen
‘What’s the point of Labour?’ Starmer in backlash over £5bn in benefits cuts
SDLP MP Colum Eastwood criticises British prime minister in House of Commons
Westminster MPs prepare for another showdown vote on the right to die
Kim Leadbeater’s assisted dying Bill is nearing the end of committee stage
Trump tips and hand knits at the St Patrick’s Day parade in London
Olympic boxer Kellie Harrington and London mayor Sadiq Khan were among those at the head of the parade winding through the West End
Freddie Scappaticci’s final years in a sleepy Surrey town: Neighbours were ‘sickened’ when they found out who he really was
The man known as Stakeknife, a senior British army agent in the IRA, was hidden away in middle-class suburban comfrot in Guildford
Reform UK undergoes schism amid row linked to Elon Musk and Tommy Robinson
Party leader Nigel Farage has fallen out with MP Rupert Lowe, seen as one of ‘Tommy’s people'
‘Philomena’s Law’: Labour MP introduces Bill to end penalty on compensation from Irish mother and baby homes
Grandson of Irish immigrants wants to combat the ‘stigma and shame’ some survivors feel
Case of three siblings abandoned as babies in London suburb confounds police
In Plaistow, an area of London beset with deprivation, baby Elsa was found in a Boot’s carrier bag on the coldest night of the year
How do you become a Trump whisperer? Ask Starmer, Macron and Meloni
Keir Starmer, Giorgia Meloni and Emmanuel Macron are trying to keep the mercurial US president onside over Europe’s security