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The British government has pleaded with Communist dictator Xi Jinping to ask Vladimir Putin to stop “some” of the atrocities Russia is alleged to be inflicting on Ukraine on his trip to Moscow.

A former Acting Commissioner in charge of London’s Metropolitan Police has been referred to the law enforcement watchdog for allegedly saying most rape complaints concern mere “regretful sex”.

British Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has insisted that new, even laxer rules for immigrant workers are not a betrayal of Brexit as migration into the United Kingdom reaches record highs.

Police officers have arrested a man strapped with two Japanese-style swords and thousands of pounds in cash in London.

Bankers at the British branch of the failed Silicon Valley Bank reportedly received bonuses totalling tens of millions of pounds just days after the Bank of England stepped in to help orchestrate a rescue package deal that saw its assets bought up by HSCB for £1.

Two off-duty police officers have been stabbed in Soho, London, with one man arrested for inflicting grievous bodily harm and drug possession.

Contrary to long-standing promises from Britain’s governing Conservative Party, net migration is expected to remain in the hundreds of thousands for the foreseeable future, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) predicted this week.

A British woman has been jailed for eight-and-a-half years for falsely claiming that she was raped and trafficked by multiple men.

The UK banned TikTok on “government corporate devices” on Thursday, it announced in a Parliamentary statement.

An American spy stabbed during an alleged terrorist incident in the UK was known to her attacker, a report in domestic media has claimed.

Russia is taking passports from “increasingly disaffected” officials to prevent them fleeing abroad, the British Ministry of Defence said. 

Typhoon jets from the RAF and Luftwaffe with the NATO Baltic air policing mission scrambled to intercept two Russian jets.

There are increasing reasons to believe that the UK may have “made the right choice” by voting for Brexit, a European Parliament MP has said.

The UK’s independent economic forecasting body says the country is to avoid technical recession this year and will grow in coming years.

A convicted child sex offender who later claimed to identify as transgender woman has been convicted of raping a woman with “her penis”.

A woman stabbed in what is thought to have been a terror attack in England last week is an American spy on secondment, it is now thought.

Home Secretary Suella Braverman issued guidance demanding police stop recording ‘non-crime hate incidents’ when someone was merely offended.

Parents in Britain must be told what their children are learning about in their sex education classes, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said.

Communist China is now actively challenging the international world order, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said.

The coffin of a Roman aristocrat was exhumed in the United Kingdom. Researchers say this discovery could “unlock the secrets of one of the most significant periods in British history.”

Politicians vying to become Scotland’s next leader have described prominent transgenderism critic J.K. Rowling as being a “national treasure”.

Young children can be “mixed berry gender fluid muffins,” a government document has instructed teachers in Wales.

Australian officials said AUKUS will cost up to $245 billion and create 20,000 jobs. It comes as China rapidly builds up its own military.

Schools in Britain should teach young boys about the dangers posed by the likes of Andrew Tate, a police official has said.

A row over the impartiality of Britain’s state broadcaster’s highest-paid personality has ended in the corporation backing down.

PM Anthony Albanese will join Biden and Sunak in San Diego to bring Australia into the fold of navies possessing nuclear-powered submarines.

UK Parliamentarians are reportedly looking at various ways to weaken a government bill aimed at ending the ongoing migrant crisis.

Welsh Government advice says statues of “old white men” such as Trafalgar hero Admiral Nelson may need to be removed or even destroyed to create the “right historical narrative” in an increasingly multicultural society.

Authorities in the UK are considering a possible bailout for tech firms after the collapse of the UK branch of the Silicon Valley Bank.

Scientists have created mice with no biological mother by turning skin cells from a male mouse into an egg – potentially allowing gay male couples to have biological children, the lead researcher and media reporters suggest.

Police have arrested one man under terrorism charges after a woman was stabbed ahead of the Cheltenham horse racing festival in England.

Ethnic minorities from Russian regions far from Moscow and St Petersburg are taking disproportionate losses in the war in Ukraine, according to British intelligence. 

Millions of UK taxpayers face being placed in higher tax brackets as a result of the fiscal drag caused by the “deep freeze” on tax bands.

The Silicon Valley Bank fallout went international with UK and European lenders seeing nearly £30 billion wiped off their portfolios

A Christian street preacher had his conviction for harrasment for declaring that a “transwoman” was in fact a biological male overturned.

The British government has said that it is now actively considering the possibility that the Chinese coronavirus crisis was a result of a Wuhan lab leak after reports showed that the Cabinet Office previously censored references to the theory.