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As China’s ruling party prepares to meet for its annual ‘two sessions’ on Friday, the biggest and most important political gathering of the year, Hong Kong is very much on the agenda.  Beijing is moving to impose sweeping reforms to the special administrative region’s electoral system, closing down what it …

Britain has once again proved it’s in denial and doesn’t want to face its own issues. In February 2015, Shamima Begum left London for Syria aged 15 to join Islamic State, along with two school friends. Ten days later, she married a jihadist and went on to have three children, …

After more than a year of insinuations and allegations that have ultimately bloomed into open diplomatic warfare, the Chinese have launched a concerted fightback against the UK – and you have to consider they might have a point. Not only have the UK and the USA spent the last year …

Noting that there will be more cases, hospitalizations, and deaths whenever the UK decides to lift its lockdown – whether that’s immediately or in nine months – Johnson told Parliament there is “no credible route to a zero-Covid Britain or, indeed, a zero-Covid world.” We cannot persist indefinitely with restrictions …

Back in my youth, soldiers tended to be neither seen nor heard, and, apart from on Remembrance Day, much the same could be said of military veterans. In those days, just about any man aged over 50 had served in the armed forces during the Second World War. When almost …

Back in my youth, soldiers tended to be neither seen nor heard, and, apart from on Remembrance Day, much the same could be said of military veterans. In those days, just about any man aged over 50 had served in the armed forces during the Second World War. When almost …

It will surprise most Brits that the nation’s biggest advertiser is not Amazon, Apple, or Nike – it’s the government. That’s across all forms of advertising, but when the focus narrows to newspapers, the picture is even more troubling. Experts have stated that the continued existence of this government money …

It will surprise most Brits that the nation’s biggest advertiser is not Amazon, Apple, or Nike – it’s the government. That’s across all forms of advertising, but when the focus narrows to newspapers, the picture is even more troubling. Experts have stated that the continued existence of this government money …

Ten years in prison is a tough sentence and usually reserved as punishment for crimes at the serious end of the scale – child grooming, sexual assault, fraud, various firearms offences, and failing to disclose the travel destination you’ve just returned home from. Thanks to Health Secretary Matt Hancock’s announcement …

The vaccines against Covid-19 are a “fantastic invention” and the world “should be accessing it in an equal way,” David Nabarro, who serves as one of the World Health Organization’s six special envoys tackling the pandemic, said on Sunday in an interview with Sky News’ Sophy Ridge. As a rich …