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Helen Jenner unveiled as Reform UK’s new leader in Wales after arrest of Dan Thomas

Jenner, who was previously the party's deputy leader in Wales , narrowly beat her rival, Jason O'Connell, in a poll of its 33 Senedd members. She joined Farage on the steps of the Senedd, where he said Reform would…

Britain loves its underdogs. We should be celebrating our Eurovision flops, not investigating them

One of these is: why are our Eurovision entries so bad? The word used by the chair, Dame Caroline Dinenage, was "dismal" , which is parliamentary speak for "shit". The evidence is all around. With the exceptions of Sam…

La Russie, éternel sparadrap du RN ?

Une déclaration qui contraste avec la réaction de Jordan Bardella à la sortie de l’Elysée, où Emmanuel Macron avait convié, la veille, les chefs de parti pour évoquer les tensions internationales. Le patron du RN avait…

Russia has ‘lost control’ of its oil industry due to Ukraine war, says Trump

"This ridiculous and never-ending war with Ukraine must be ended," he said. "The whole World suffers as 25,000 people, mostly soldiers, are being killed each month. What a shame!" Responding to Trump's message, Ukrainian…

UK politics: New leader of Reform UK in Wales named after defeating rival by just two votes – as it happened

Reform's new leader in Wales was elected after narrowly defeating a rival candidate, Jason O'Connell, in a poll of the party's 33 Senedd members, it has emerged. Nigel Farage made no mention of O'Connell when he joined…

22 countries back call to keep AI ‘under human control’

And our message here is that we need human intervention, so humans need to be in charge,” he said in an interview. Referring to the recent cyberattack by rogue AI agents on the Hugging Face platform , the declaration…

I've got no ceiling on Lib Dem ambitions, says leader Ed Davey

He acknowledged the "frustration" felt by some of his MPs that the party was not making a bigger impact - and vowed to set out bold policies in his conference speech on Tuesday. Sir Ed led the Lib Dems to a record 72 MPs…

Old video of Alaskan glacier shared with claims it shows cause of Nepal flood

We traced the footage back to a clip posted on Instagram on 21 August, five days before flooding occurred in Nepal after a glacier collapsed . The original footage is captioned as showing the Columbia Glacier in Alaska.…

Covid vaccines have not been shown to cause ‘turbo cancer’

The posts suggest that the presenter has “turbo cancer” and that this has been “caused by the mRNA Covid shots”. However, there is no evidence that Covid vaccines are linked to new cancer diagnoses and “turbo cancer” is…

EU countries fail to reach Russia sanctions list deal, will keep talking

The deadline was extended to 8:30, per two diplomats granted anonymity to speak freely, and then again to 10 p.m. The negotiations were finally pushed until 8 a.m. Tuesday, one of the diplomats said. France cited…