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George Killeen: Conference is an opportunity for the Tories to prove they care about liberty

Liberty has long been at the heart of the British national character. The Magna Carta, central to our political mythos, was written after ordinary Englishmen joined forces to resist a tax hike imposed by an unelected…

What’s the harm? Fact checking reveals the true scale of AI fakery

It's a fast-growing share of everything fact checkers investigate. In this new study, funded through the AISI Challenge Fund, Full Fact and the University of Westminster analysed 112 pieces of online AI-generated or…

UK Column News — 5th October 2026

UK Column News Show Notes 00:43 RAF Fairford: The plot thickens… U.S. Rushes to Withdraw Bombers From U.K. Air Base After New Threats | The New York Times Pentagon weighs pulling nearly a third of U.S. forces from Europe…

Sánchez bets it all on housing ahead of Spain’s snap election

Spain has gained more than 3 million residents since 2015, including 793,000 in Madrid, 556,000 in Barcelona and 279,000 in Valencia — all cities where housing costs have risen sharply. Sánchez has not been blind to the…

Merz and Macron want the EU to hit back harder — and faster — against trade threats

In their letter and a joint position paper , they call for urgent action, saying the EU’s existing trade defense toolbox “does not suffice anymore.” “Without delaying the full use of the existing set of instruments, we…

Compilation video shared of ‘US strikes on Iran’ includes fake and old footage from across the Middle East

The compilation actually includes two old clips from Gaza and Lebanon, as well as multiple videos which appear to be fake. The one-minute compilation features eight different clips of explosions and drone strikes with…

Patrick English: Badenoch and the Conservatives are on the up with the public, but huge challenges remain

A year ago, in the lead up to the 2025 Conservative Party Conference, the court of public opinion was an extremely tricky place to be for Kemi Badenoch and her party. Our YouGov MRP in September of that year had the…

China Is Rising While America Falls Behind | Silk and Steel

Carl and Jamarl begin with China’s National Day and the extraordinary changes in Chinese living standards, literacy, healthcare and technological capacity over the past several decades. They discuss China’s reduction of…

Andrew Gimson’s Conference sketch: Badenoch steps forward as the party’s one big star

She declares at frequent intervals, her face wreathed in smiles, that we cannot have our cake and eat it. Boris Johnson, the leading exponent of cakeism in recent times , goes unmentioned by her, but she makes it…

Emmanuel Macron is most impressive world leader on AI, says Sam Altman

After two terms as president, Macron is barred from running in the next election in April 2027. The far-right candidate Marine Le Pen, who is leading in the polls , is advocating a policy of deregulation on AI, three…