Michael D Higgins: ‘What I had was a form of mild stroke. It didn’t affect my cognitive abilities’The President reveals details of his ‘little episode’ and holds forth on everything from the failures of EU migration policy, the future of Manchester United’s manager, King Charles’s prostate, and the fact that he will never stop speaking outWed Apr 24 2024 - 06:00
Sneaky sexually suggestive filming: Britain is in the grip of a social media trend that raises uncomfortable questions UK police are investigating a raft of complaints from women who have been surreptitiously filmed on nights outWed Apr 24 2024 - 05:00
Sunak’s nodding hype gang cannot distract from the latest problems with Rwanda migration planThe British prime minister suggests parliament will have to sit into the small hours of Tuesday morning to ensure Bill’s passageMon Apr 22 2024 - 14:14
‘There is an anti-establishment mood’: Tory peer and elections guru Robert Hayward on upcoming local electionsUK prime minister Rishi Sunak will cop heavy flak if the Tories flop in council and mayoral votes next monthSun Apr 21 2024 - 12:00
Nicola Sturgeon’s husband charged with embezzlement of SNP fundsPeter Murrell was re-arrested on Thursday morning in political finance investigationFri Apr 19 2024 - 15:35
No smoke but plenty of fire in House of Commons as UK’s general election debate takes shapePrime minister Rishi Sunak’s strengths but also his weaknesses were on show in Westminster this weekThu Apr 18 2024 - 06:00
Fate of former hangout of British spooks mirrors changes in the world of espionageQuantum of nostalgia: a storied former hangout of British spooks in London evokes past intrigues, as the world of espionage changesWed Apr 17 2024 - 05:00
‘Why me?’: Liz Truss shares reaction to death of queen on her second day as PM in new bookFormer UK prime minister’s new memoir shows she is isn’t backing down despite being blamed for almost collapsing the British economyMon Apr 15 2024 - 18:56
Police to investigate Angela Rayner’s past living arrangements as she struggles to shake off political rowLabour deputy leader says she will ‘do the right thing and step down’ if found to have committed criminal offenceFri Apr 12 2024 - 18:30
Harold Wilson’s secret affair with a younger aide revealed after 50 yearsClose aide of former Labour leader also confirms that Wilson’s doctor once suggested murdering another woman with whom he had sleptThu Apr 11 2024 - 15:05
British Labour says it will implement Cass findings on care for trans children if it wins electionLandmark report finds ‘toxic’ transgender debates have intimidated some doctors and recommends ‘extreme caution’ with puberty blockers for young peopleWed Apr 10 2024 - 19:55
Britain ponders how to deal with ‘offensive stereotypes’ depicted in its foreign office muralsA report calls for an overhaul of the ‘elitist’ foreign office, beginning with its palatial old colonial headquartersWed Apr 10 2024 - 05:00
Election of Simon Harris as Taoiseach a chance to ‘reset relationships’, says DUP chiefGavin Robinson says new leader a chance for Dublin Government ‘to learn from missteps of previous administration, which gravely damaged southern relationship with unionists’Tue Apr 09 2024 - 20:42
‘Emotional’ David Cameron meets Donald Trump as he urges US Republicans to unblock Ukraine aidBritain’s foreign secretary stops for private dinner at Trump’s Florida resort en route to WashingtonTue Apr 09 2024 - 19:37
Labour MP Creasy criticises Republic for silence over Rwanda plan’s impact on Belfast AgreementTánaiste Micheál Martin ignored pleas for intervention, high-profile MP saysFri Apr 05 2024 - 06:00
Inside Sellafield: behind the razor wire, gun-toting guards and blast barriers at the toxic nuclear siteThe site in Cumbria in England directly across the Irish Sea is now an enormous nuclear dump. The Irish Times is given rare access to the most dangerous nuclear facility in western EuropeSat Mar 30 2024 - 06:00
England’s campus free speech tsar says ‘shocking’ ideas must be protected and foreign interference rebuffedFormer Cambridge philosophy professor Arif Ahmed will oversee a new complaints regime from AugustSat Mar 30 2024 - 05:00
Luminaries of the men-only Garrick Club draw attention to London’s elite private cliquesLondon Letter: Private members clubs are enmeshed in the power fabric of the cityWed Mar 27 2024 - 05:00
Britain shocked by news of Kate Middleton’s cancerThe Princess of Wales records a video from her Windsor home to reveal she is undergoing chemotherapySat Mar 23 2024 - 06:00
‘They patronise the north’: Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham on why he lost faith in WestminsterLabour veteran is making a bid for a third term as the directly elected mayor and ‘King of the North’Fri Mar 22 2024 - 15:06
Tory cheers cannot hide their fears as Rishi Sunak struggles to keep his party onsideThe UK prime minister is under pressure from his restive backbenchers as the polls won’t budgeWed Mar 20 2024 - 19:07
Diane Abbott racism rows highlight baffling ways of British politicsLabour leader Keir Starmer will understand the maxim that justice delayed is justice deniedWed Mar 20 2024 - 05:00
Scotland’s neglected island communities: ‘London ignores us, Edinburgh hates us’ The stunning Outer Hebrides are threatened by depopulation and a ferries fiascoSat Mar 16 2024 - 10:57
Dublin’s migrant tent city ‘unacceptable’ and plan for refugees needed quickly, Harris saysMinister for Higher Education urges Roderic O’Gorman to bring a long-term plan to GovernmentFri Mar 15 2024 - 14:47
Angela Rayner wants Diane Abbott to return as Labour MPSuspended from the party over bigotry comments, Abbott has recently been the victim of racist remarks by a Tory donorThu Mar 14 2024 - 17:48
SNP leader looks to Republic in bid to free Scotland from Britain’s flagging economyHumza Yousaf suggests an independent Scotland could be as much a competitor as potential partner for the RepublicWed Mar 13 2024 - 06:00
The Granite City wants a solid future if the oil boom endsAberdeen’s future as the oil capital of Europe has become an election issue in ScotlandWed Mar 13 2024 - 05:00
‘I want my country back’: Tories fear more defections after Lee Anderson quits for Farage-linked Reform UKFormer Tory deputy chairman leaves the Conservatives and exposes the fractures that threaten to overwhelm its ‘red wall’Mon Mar 11 2024 - 19:39
‘Sometimes I can’t sleep at night’: Adi Roche warns of nuclear risks of Ukraine conflict as she picks up peace awardAdi Roche, founder of Chernobyl Children International has been honoured with a peace award by the Ahmadiyya Muslim communitySat Mar 09 2024 - 18:00
‘S**t’s f**ked up. It’s going to get really bad’: Millionaire financial whizzkid on the economic disaster heading our wayLondoner Gary Stevenson, who was Citi’s highest-paid trader worldwide in his early 20s, is despondent about the future as economic inequality deepensSat Mar 09 2024 - 06:00
Hunting for growth: Britain covets tax cuts but chancellor’s options were slimChancellor of the exchequer Jeremy Hunt was under pressure to deliver the Tory holy grail of slashing income tax in this week’s budget but the prospect seems remote before the upcoming general electionFri Mar 08 2024 - 06:00
National insurance cut leads UK budget as Tories also steal flagship Labour policy on ‘non-doms’No surprises in the budget delivered this afternoon by UK chancellor Jeremy HuntWed Mar 06 2024 - 14:17
The elusive Andrius and Andris must be laughing all the way to the bankUsing fake names that sound like something from Moe’s Tavern in the Simpsons, apparent fraudsters are registered to my addressWed Mar 06 2024 - 05:00
Galloway’s election means Gaza deaths, Starmer’s Achilles heel, stays on top of agendaThere are only so many constituencies where the firebrand’s influence can hurt LabourTue Mar 05 2024 - 19:58
From Cork to Westminster: meet the latest ROI-born person elected to the House of CommonsDamien Egan’s background as an immigrant, a gay man and a Jewish convert gives him a nuanced view on lifeFri Mar 01 2024 - 07:00
George Galloway favourite to win chaotic Rochdale byelection dominated by accusations of bigotryIn the Rochdale byelection George Galloway could capitalise on anger directed towards Labour in Muslim communities over the party’s stance on Israel’s Gaza campaignWed Feb 28 2024 - 18:26
Drinking wine the trick to surviving an overnight rail ‘sleeper’ service from Scotland to LondonNationalisation of Britain’s railways back on the agenda, but a good night’s sleep is notWed Feb 28 2024 - 05:00
Derry Girls finale wins prestigious literary and peace award in LondonFinal episode of third series of the comedy scoops Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial PrizeTue Feb 27 2024 - 19:39
Jacob Rees-Mogg says decision to strip Shamima Begum of UK citizenship is ‘racist’ and ‘wrong’London schoolgirl who fled to Syria to join Islamic State in 2015 lost her latest appeal last week against UK government decisionMon Feb 26 2024 - 20:39
‘I hate this job’: What makes Keir Starmer tick?The Labour leader and favourite to be next UK prime minister has co-operated on a revealing biographySat Feb 24 2024 - 08:00
As Hoyle was accused of having ‘undermined the confidence’ of the House, the Tories and SNP may seek revengeWhatever happened behind the scenes, Hoyle ignored advice from Commons officials and handed Starmer a way out of his quandaryWed Feb 21 2024 - 19:39
‘I cannot go back there’: Russian dissidents protest against Putin on the leafy streets of west LondonThe Russian embassy sits on one of the most expensive, and heavily-guarded, avenues in the cityWed Feb 21 2024 - 04:55
‘I’m proud of the Britain Brexiteers and right-wing politicians seem to hate’The son of an illiterate immigrant, Sanghera has become a hate figure of the right for his unflinching examinations of the history of the British empireSat Feb 10 2024 - 06:00
Humza Yousaf faces questions over his political judgment in ministerial iPad affair Scotland’s health minister Michael Matheson suddenly quit this week, three months after it emerged an £11,000 holiday roaming charge had been racked up on his taxpayer-funded iPadSat Feb 10 2024 - 06:00
Mary Lou McDonald to ‘reflect’ and ‘correct things’ in wake of poll slump for Sinn FéinParty leader responds to latest Irish Times/Ipsos B&A opinion poll showing a six-point drop in supportThu Feb 08 2024 - 15:37
Every rough sleeper in London has a story. This is Stephen’sThe panhandlers on the Tube are usually polite and often rehearse what they are going to sayWed Feb 07 2024 - 05:00
Liz Truss's new political grouping launches amid circus music and bad timingFormer UK prime minister launches her Popular Conservatives pressure group in WestminsterTue Feb 06 2024 - 18:15
Former Ukip leader Nigel Farage praises Dublin anti-immigration marchRight-wing politician accuses Irish political establishment of ignoring issue of migration for too longTue Feb 06 2024 - 17:41
Hamas raped and mutilated Israeli women ‘like garbage’ in October 7th attack, campaign launch hears Ex-Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg and Cherie Blair bring global profile to campaign highlighting systematic sexual violence against women by militant groupSat Feb 03 2024 - 11:00
Judge says transphobia was a motive as she sentences killers of British teenager Brianna GheyPolice had previously said they did not think the Warrington teenager was killed because she was transgenderSat Feb 03 2024 - 06:30
