カテゴリー: Politics
Economist who reassessed Karl Marx’s view of the durability of capitalism and wrote on Indian culture and historyAn economist with a strong grasp of politics, Meghnad Desai, who has died aged 85, put telling the truth ahead of the pursuit of personal a…
Exclusive: Thames Valley police requested Carmen Lau ‘avoid public gatherings’ after neighbours received bounty lettersA former Hong Kong politician and prominent democracy campaigner has accused British police of asking her to “self-censor” and “retre…
Britain’s car and whisky industries set for boost while India gets visa concessions, but some sensitive issues unresolvedIndia’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, is visiting London to sign a landmark free trade agreement between his country and the UK, a…
Dan Sabbagh on the data leak that may have cost hundreds of millions of pounds – and put Afghan lives at riskThis week an email was sent to people in Afghanistan. It told the recipients, who had all worked for British forces in Afghanistan, that some o…
Afghans exposed in 2022 UK data breach fear for their own and their families’ safety and say it is a betrayal by country they risked their lives forHere are the voices of Afghans whose details were included in a 2022 data leak, which was made public on…
One email in February 2022 set off a chain of events that affected the lives of thousands of Afghans, but few knew about it until this weekWhat we know about the secret Afghan relocation schemeWhat are superinjunctions and why was one imposed in this c…
Commons remain tone deaf as superinjunction lifts lid on data leak and £800m Afghanistan Response RouteI suppose we might have guessed something like this. In August 2021, the then foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, had moaned about the “sea being closed…
We would like to hear from Afghans who have arrived or are due to arrive in the UK under the Afghan Response RouteThousands of Afghans have been relocated to the UK under a secret government scheme following a data leak.Personal information about more …
French president addresses MPs on topical issues, from commitment to Ukraine, to European connection and US tariffsUK politics live – latest updatesEmmanuel Macron, making the state visit by a European head of state to the UK since Brexit, has addresse…
No resettlement for Afghans | Cool or cold? | Inspired delivery | Harking backIt seems that the government has decided to cancel the Afghan relocations and assistance policy and the Afghan citizens resettlement scheme to new applicants with no notice. …
Ukrainian president says two countries will deepen defence cooperation with the objective to ‘stop Russian terror’Ukraine and the UK are to deepen their defence cooperation by jointly producing long-range drones, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Monday afte…
Ukrainian president says two countries will deepen defence cooperation with the objective to ‘stop Russian terror’Ukraine and the UK are to deepen their defence cooperation by jointly producing long-range drones, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Monday afte…
Ex-minister wants to clear up ‘misunderstanding’ over accusation she benefitted from regime of her aunt, ousted Bangladeshi PM Sheikh HasinaThe former City minister Tulip Siddiq has asked to meet Bangladesh’s leader during his London visit to clear up …
Trip by five Labour MPs designed to build UK-Taiwan ties as Beijing steps up military capabilityA group of five Labour MPs is travelling to Taiwan for meetings with government officials for the first time since Labour came to power.The Labour Friends o…
Call for UK PM to act urgently over pro-democracy campaigner who has spent 1,602 days in solitary confinementFormer prisoners and hostages wrongly held abroad have urged the UK prime minister to urgently secure the release of the pro-democracy campaign…