How Britain’s prison system is teetering on the brink of collapseNew Labour government was rocked in autumn by images of unexpectedly-freed criminals popping champagne corks in prison car parksWed Dec 25 2024 - 11:00
Older Irish people in London: ‘It is so important to have something to get people out of the house. It breaks down the loneliness’The networks of ‘joy and friendship’ helping the older Irish community in LondonTue Dec 24 2024 - 06:00
Shocking crimes, royal illness and Labour’s landslide: The eight big moments that defined 2024 for BritainWinds of change howled across Britain in a year when a Labour election victory ended 14 years of Tory ruleSat Dec 21 2024 - 06:00
Pub staff struggled to keep up with giddy Shamrock Rovers fans who enjoyed every moment of Chelsea tripAbout 2,000 Shamrock Rovers fans marched to Stamford Bridge, equating to about 14,000 internally concealed pints of beerFri Dec 20 2024 - 14:17
Corkman leading €11bn development of Battersea Power Station in London: ‘We’ve created a place to live, work and play’ Donagh O’Sullivan is in charge of the redevelopment of one of the British capital’s most iconic structuresFri Dec 20 2024 - 06:00
London pubs turn to ration cards amid Guinness shortageForced to improvise after its supply of Guinness dropped, at least one London pub didn’t lose it headWed Dec 18 2024 - 05:00
Former Tory minister Steve Baker: ‘Ireland has been treated badly by the UK. It’s f**king shaming’Emotional former Tory minister for Northern Ireland Steve Baker 'embarrassed Ireland was treated the way it was by the United Kingdom’Sat Dec 14 2024 - 06:00
‘You want peace in the Middle East? I don’t feel there is peace here in Britain’Westminster MPs hear from Israeli and Palestinian voices on what more Britain can do to help bring about peaceFri Dec 13 2024 - 16:17
A van and a plan: House and furniture hunting in London is not for the faint of heartLondon Letter: The rapacious property market here makes Dublin’s seem quaintWed Dec 11 2024 - 05:00
Britain pauses Syrian asylum decision process after fall of AssadFocus will be reflection on ‘diplomatic relations with Syria’ and a cautious observation of Hayat Tahrir al-ShamMon Dec 09 2024 - 19:38
‘Don’t take Fine Gael for granted’: Simon Harris on Government formation talks with Fianna FáilTaoiseach says his party’s mandate must be respected, while Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin also raises the issue of Rockall in Scotland, where both leaders were attending a British-Irish summitFri Dec 06 2024 - 14:55
SNP lays traps for Labour in Scotland’s draft budgetScottish government pledges to abolish in Scotland the two-child benefit cap that the UK Labour government has so far resisted scrappingWed Dec 04 2024 - 17:18
Louise Haigh a casualty of the Westminster power machine Sheffield MP and UK transport secretary was destined to implement a core Labour policy by nationalising railways but she quit suddenly last weekWed Dec 04 2024 - 05:00
Downing Street comments on Gregg Wallace allegations indicative of pressure on BBCPrime minister’s office has criticised Wallace, presenter of popular cookery show MasterchefMon Dec 02 2024 - 20:09
MPs vote to give terminally ill in England and Wales the right to assisted deathBill on assisted dying passes in House of Commons by wider margin than anticipatedFri Nov 29 2024 - 18:32
UK’s transport secretary quits government over conviction relating to stolen mobile phone reportLouise Haigh has resigned from cabinet barely five months after the electionFri Nov 29 2024 - 18:22
‘I don’t know where I am going’: Manchester police criticised for mass expulsion of Traveller youths on trainsInvestigation into allegations of ‘racial profiling’ after police used draconian powers to disperse Traveller and Gypsy teenagers visiting Christmas marketsFri Nov 29 2024 - 16:00
Britain’s heritage under threat from vandals targeting landmark sitesShrewsbury’s links with A Christmas Carol targeted in latest attack that is part of an ugly trendWed Nov 27 2024 - 04:48
‘Unspeakable’ Birmingham pub bombings remembered 50 years onExplosions, widely blamed on the IRA, killed 21 people in the city in November 1974Thu Nov 21 2024 - 18:48
Ire of farmers and pensioners mounts as British Labour faces possibility of new ‘winter of discontent’Protest this week by farmers over inheritance tax raid sounds alarm bells for Labour’s rural prospectsWed Nov 20 2024 - 19:14
Complexities of immigrant life captured in museum’s Irish exhibition, and in row over slave trader at the doorLondon’s Museum of the Home has a popular Irish rooms exhibit inside, and an unpopular statue outsideWed Nov 20 2024 - 05:00
Vote on assisted dying Bill due to be a cliffhanger as Britain’s Labour opposition mountsWes Streeting, health secretary and potential future Labour leader, is against the planFri Nov 15 2024 - 15:25
Just Eat guy was on the clock and no war memorial service was going to stop himLondon Letter: Remembrance Sunday is when elites pay respects at the Cenotaph but Armistice Day is differentWed Nov 13 2024 - 05:00
David Lammy and Donald Trump: Winner winner, chicken dinner?Britain’s foreign secretary believes the US president-elect is in a forgiving mood over past tauntsFri Nov 08 2024 - 18:19
Trumpian vibe as Kemi Badenoch faces Keir Starmer in House of CommonsNew Tory leader Kemi Badenoch faces Labour prime minister Keir Starmer in the Commons for the first timeWed Nov 06 2024 - 19:36
UK government targets vaping which may not go down well with Westminster’s secret suckerLabour revives anti-tobacco and anti-vaping measures first championed by former Tory leader Rishi SunakTue Nov 05 2024 - 16:34
Kemi Badenoch brings sass and confidence as leader of Conservative Party London-born, Nigeria-raised daughter of middle-class immigrant parents is first black woman to lead major political party in BritainMon Nov 04 2024 - 17:24
Derek Quinlan’s appetite for cash, his health difficulties and his advisersThe Quinlan Files: Bankrupt property investor received large cash transfers from company chaired by his wifeFri Nov 01 2024 - 05:00
Tories shout ‘we told you so’ after Rachel Reeves’ tax-and-spend Labour budgetLiberal Democrat leader Ed Davey, who could have been an MI6 spy, muses whether to accept any Tory defectors there might be after a new leader is announced on Saturday to replace Rishi SunakThu Oct 31 2024 - 19:29
Rachel Reeves increases taxes by £40bn in budget to address ‘black hole’ in UK’s public financesLabour’s first UK budget in more than 14 years was a tax-and-spend bonanza with huge new outlays on health, transport and educationWed Oct 30 2024 - 13:52
Derek Quinlan’s Nama battle: ‘I am destined to spend the rest of my life under Nama’s shadow’Nama would not agree an exit deal with Irish property financier Derek Quinlan, the agency’s largest debtorWed Oct 30 2024 - 06:00
Derek Quinlan says Nama told him not to ‘say anything negative’ to banking inquiryThe former property tycoon’s interactions with Nama emerged in documents filed as part of his UK bankruptcyWed Oct 30 2024 - 06:00
Rachel Reeves: the UK chancellor with the ‘toughest job since WW2′London Letter: Reeves will deliver a difficult budget in the House of Commons on WednesdayWed Oct 30 2024 - 05:00
A forgotten deal, a €2.5m tax rebate: How Irish tycoon's ‘worrying’ conduct kept him in bankruptcyA €2.5m Irish tax rebate was cited among reasons the Dubliner stayed in economic purgatoryTue Oct 29 2024 - 06:00
Derek Quinlan: The ex-property king who had to declare haircuts to a bankruptcy officialBankruptcy finally caught up with tycoon Derek Quinlan, an ex-tax inspector famous during Ireland’s boomTue Oct 29 2024 - 06:00
Bankrupt property tycoon Derek Quinlan gave undeclared €2.5m tax refund to his wifeNewly obtained UK court records show that the Celtic Tiger property investor who still owes €400 million through Nama used tax rebate to fund his living expensesTue Oct 29 2024 - 06:00
My remuneration ‘was substantial’: The interview transcript Derek Quinlan didn’t want made publicIn October 2023, the Irish financier attended a meeting in London to discuss elements of his financial affairs with one of the trustees of his bankruptcy in the UKTue Oct 29 2024 - 05:55
Kinahan leader ‘gave names’ to UK police over guns stashDublin criminal Thomas ‘Bomber’ Kavanagh’s barrister suggested he had ‘put himself at risk’Wed Oct 23 2024 - 06:00
Housing shortage sends property prices rocketing in east London’s hipster heavenLondon Letter: Tech workers pay big sums to rent small houses built in the shadows of Guinness Trust blocks of affordable homesWed Oct 23 2024 - 05:00
Liam Byrne was smiling by the end as it became clear he could be out by next ChristmasKinahan cartel member seemed relaxed by the end of his sentencing hearing at the Old BaileyTue Oct 22 2024 - 13:43
Kinahan gang leader Liam Byrne sentenced to five years in prison for firearms offencesCo-accused Thomas Kavanagh sentenced to six years but Byrne could be out by next Christmas due to time served alreadyTue Oct 22 2024 - 11:28
‘WhatsApp for criminals’: Court hears of Kinahan cartel’s use of encrypted messagesDublin criminal Liam Byrne sourced pistols and machine guns for his brother-in-law Thomas ‘Bomber’ KavanaghTue Oct 22 2024 - 06:00
Kinahan crime boss plans to lead ‘honest life’ once released, sentence hearing toldLiam Byrne and fellow senior Kinahan crime group member Thomas ‘Bomber’ Kavanagh are before a court in London over weapons plotMon Oct 21 2024 - 14:00
Aberfan disaster ‘seared in the minds’ of Welsh people as work continues to ensure it cannot happen againOn the anniversary of the 1966 disaster in which a school was buried by coal waste, politicians are working on a Bill to deal with safety concerns of legacy coal tipsMon Oct 21 2024 - 05:00
‘I met Nigel Farage in the bar’: the vicar’s daughter who ‘liked to party’ and is now first minister of WalesEluned Morgan travels to Cork on Thursday for a bilateral with the Irish Government, but first she must learn a cúpla focail for her trip to the ÁrasWed Oct 16 2024 - 17:30
Cardiff’s football ‘Mona Lisa’ underscores the city’s long-standing ethnic diversityThe Welsh capital was a hub for immigrants a century before the Windrush generation landed in EnglandWed Oct 16 2024 - 05:00
Alex Salmond: Scotland’s talented and flawed ‘colossus’ who idolised Charles Stewart ParnellScottish nationalist politician died suddenly on Saturday, as his friends insist his independence dream will live onSun Oct 13 2024 - 11:50
Keir Starmer’s first 100 days: after a ‘good start’, his Labour government has lost its shine at an alarming speedThe UK’s budget this month takes on near-totemic importance for Labour as it tries to reset the narrativeFri Oct 11 2024 - 14:10
Keir Starmer may be the real winner as James Cleverly is eliminated from Tory leadership raceJames Cleverly's sensational exit sees Conservatives move further to the right with either Kemi Badenoch or Robert JenrickWed Oct 09 2024 - 20:31
‘I may not be as lucky as my dog’: Britain gets ready to consider whether there is a right to an assisted deathCampaigners such as Esther Rantzen, who has lung cancer, welcome the news that Westminster will debate a proposal to give terminally ill people to right to seek help ending their livesWed Oct 09 2024 - 05:00
