The chairman of the inquiry into the 2017 Islamist terror attack in Manchester has criticised authorities in charge of the security at the arena, saying that Salman Abedi should have been identified as a threat on the night of the attack, and that while Abedi would likely still have detonated his suicide bomb, many more lives would have been saved with early intervention.
Conservative MP Sajid Javid has said allowing children under 18 to marry is “child abuse”, admitting it was a cultural practice “prevalent in certain communities”.
Shamima Begum, 21, claims that she was just a “dumb kid” when she travelled to Syria to join the Islamic State and begged “pretty please” to return to the UK.
Dozens of Conservative MPs rebelled and voted against extending restrictions — but not enough to stop the measures being passed, with 491 MPs backing the plans.
A senior Cabinet minister has said the government “doesn’t have the right to take charge of people’s lives, purely to prevent them seeing the doctor”, as the prime minister is reportedly battling rising discontent amongst MPs over the delay to ending coronavirus restrictions.
Former Conservative Party leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith said that Britons have been “worried and frightened” into accepting lockdown because of “incorrect” scientific forecasts, which did not take into account the impact vaccination would have on the transmission of the Chinese coronavirus.
Reports of antisemitism in London have hit a record high in May, according to a Jewish charity which said that almost all were related to the conflict between Israel and Palestinian terror group Hamas.
England’s chief medical officer has suggested that in future, children could be offered vaccination against the Chinese coronavirus to prevent “disruptions” to their schooling.
Lockdown sceptic Conservative MP Sir Charles Walker believes that July the 19th will not be the end of restrictions, saying that the government’s scientific advisors will be pushing for another extension and predicted that the longer into Summer that unlocking is delayed, the more likely it will go on and lead to a tightening of measures in Winter.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that the proposed end to all Chinese coronavirus-related restrictions in England has been postponed from June 21st to July 19th.
The right-leaning anti-woke British news channel GB News netted more viewers than main competitors Sky News and BBC News on its launch, having ratings of almost triple that of Sky.
A scientist advising the government on the UK’s response to the Chinese coronavirus has predicted that a “substantial third wave” is coming. Meanwhile, the prime minister is set to announce a four-week delay to the end of restrictions.
Global vaccine passport advocate Tony Blair has said there should be a “distinction between the vaccinated and unvaccinated, and that those who have been inoculated against the Chinese coronavirus should be able to “enjoy greater freedom” from restrictions and to travel.
A Communist member of the government’s scientific advisory committee has said that wearing masks and social distancing should continue for the “long term” to suppress the Chinese coronavirus and other diseases.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has again parroted Joe Biden’s “build back better” slogan ahead of the G7 Summit, saying the world must rebuild post-pandemic based on “greener and fairer foundations”.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that his first face-to-face talk with U.S. President Joe Biden was a “breath of fresh air”, gushing over joint plans regarding climate change and NATO.
The black actress playing Tudor queen Anne Boleyn claimed that the British Royal Family failed to embrace and protect Meghan Markle.
Up to 10 off-duty police officers were caught at a party that breached coronavirus social distancing rules and were suspended while the police standards office investigates them.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock would not rule out the mask mandate or work-from-home recommendations continuing past June 21st, the government’s proposed end of Chinese coronavirus restrictions.
A group of Pacific rim nations have welcomed Brexit Britain into accession talks to join the CPTPP trading bloc, with the government saying that negotiations could start in the coming weeks.
London police described how one of their K9 officers was “lucky to be alive” after being stabbed in the head six times while detaining an armed man.
Keir Starmer has said that Labour must be “patriotic and proud about it”, months after leftists in the party disavowed a similar proposal as “Fatherland-ism”.
Usman Khan laid on the floor for ten minutes after being shot before sitting up, declaring “no, Allah hu Akbar!” and being shot several more times until the terrorist stopped moving, an inquest has heard.
Five people were killed in London between late Thursday night and Monday, with one Metropolitan Police superintendent describing the “relentless” demand in the capital over the Bank Holiday for law enforcement not normally seen outside of New Year’s.
The Home Office has confirmed that 568 illegals crossed the English Channel in small boats to reach Britain in just four days.
An English church will create an “educational area” for the former slave trader who became a clergyman and abolitionist, and wrote the hymn “Amazing Grace”, after the Church of England had ordered a Black Lives Matter-style review of all of its memorials for “contested heritage”.
An inquest has found that London Bridge terror attack victims Saskia Jones and Jack Merritt were unlawfully killed and that failures by probation services, police, and the British domestic intelligence agency MI5 contributed to their deaths.
The statue of 17th-century Bristol philanthropist Edward Colston, which was torn down from its plinth, vandalised, and thrown into the harbour by an angry mob of Black Lives Matter protesters in June 2020 over his links to slavery, will be put in a museum alongside paraphernalia linked to the Marxist protest movement.
Prince Harry has claimed that mental health and alleged manmade climate change are linked and that both are the most important issues in the world.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock said that it was “too early to say” if the end of COVID-19 restrictions will come on June 21st as scheduled.
The leader of the House of Commons has called for Rob Roberts to resign after the disgraced MP was found to have sexually harassed young parliamentary staff.
The UK’s law enforcement coordination body revealed that police made over 1,000 arrests and seized nearly 300 weapons during operations targeting county lines drug dealing last week.
A schools trust has cleared of wrongdoing a teacher who went into hiding following death threats for showing cartoons of Mohammed to his class, but said that it was “not necessary” to use the images of the Islamic prophet.
MP Rob Roberts has been suspended from the Conservative Party and faces a suspension from the House of Commons after an internal complaints panel ruled he had sexually harassed a male staff member, at one point telling him to be “less alluring” because the MP found the subordinate attractive. Roberts had also asked a 21-year-old female intern if she wanted to “fool around” with him.
More than one in three Britons have said that race relations have gotten worse since the Black Lives Matter protests in June 2020.
Police were forced to monitor a protest at a West Yorkshire high school after the principal suggested that the presence of the Palestinian flag at the school could be seen as “a call to arms and seen as a message of support for anti-Semitism”. Following the “barrage” of criticism, the school leader apologised.
Senior minister Priti Patel has said that the BBC’s reputation is “highly damaged” following the Dyson report that found Martin Bashir had used deception to obtain an interview with Diana, Princess of Wales and that the BBC had covered up what it knew about how the journalist obtained the interview.
The victims of two Islamist terror attacks on British soil have been remembered on Saturday, May 22nd: Fusilier Lee Rigby and the 22 victims of the Manchester bombing.
Animal rights activists have blockaded four McDonald’s distribution centres in England, holding protest materials reading demands for a “plant based food system” and claiming “meat & dairy = climate crisis”.
Germany has banned non-essential travel from the United Kingdom over “concern” of the Indian variant of the coronavirus, as cases of the strain spike by 80 per cent in London.
