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James Craig: The Government can prevent disaster in Wandsworth

In May 2026, I was elected to Wandsworth Council for the first time. It should have been an unambiguously happy day. We wrestled back control of the council from Labour by just 16 votes, after four gruelling years in…

UK Column News — 14th October 2026

UK Column News Show Notes 00:39 RAF Fairford and Iran: Connected ‘State Threats’ Joint Statement on Iran, 12 October | FCDO PM statement to the House of Commons: | Prime Minister’s Office House of Commons, Monday 12…

France’s Mélenchon sees Spain’s Sánchez as inspiration for fixing public finances

Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu’s government has presented a budget with €43 billion in spending cuts, aiming to reduce France’s deficit to 5% of GDP without raising taxes. This year’s deficit is expected to reach 5.4%…

Siegmunds Machtplan in Gefahr

Während die BSW-Spitze tobt, wittert die AfD ihre Chance für die Ministerpräsidentenwahl in Sachsen-Anhalt. Wie ein raffinierter CDU-Plan den AfD-Kandidaten Ulrich Siegmund stoppen soll, offenbart einen beispiellosen…

Kubilius urges countries to protect EU defense budget ahead of leaders’ meeting

That's especially needed as defense spending remains too national-oriented and the defense industry too fragmented, he lamented. "If we have less of those possibilities to incentivize member states, we shall not be able…

EU-China trade progress welcomed, yet trust issues linger

The discussion also revealed differences between policymakers and businesses over the EU’s proposed Industrial Accelerator Act, a flagship measure aimed at steering public procurement spending toward European companies…

Joe Walker Cousins: Saudi Arabia will remember who stood with it

What goes on in the Gulf does not stay in the Gulf. The attacks on Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport show that Saudi Arabia is not a passing regional story, and Britain’s relationship with the Kingdom cannot be…

Wie Maroš Šefčovič der Durchbruch im Handel mit China gelang

Aber die EU muss die Zeit, die diese Gespräche bieten, voll ausschöpfen“, sagte Barkin von Rhodium. Der Handelskommissar wird voraussichtlich im Januar ein Videogespräch mit Wang führen, bevor sich die beiden im…

UK government apologises for past burials of stillborn babies in mass graves

Parents spent decades not knowing where their babies were buried, owing to a practice in which stillborn babies were taken from mothers at hospital and buried in communal graves. Over several decades between the 1930s…

Nigel Farage says charities that help asylum seekers reach UK should be prosecuted

While the Reform UK leader did not specify which organisations should be targeted, he and other senior Reform figures have been heavily critical of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), which has faced a…