Poppy Lindsey

BREAKING: Six Palestine Action activists will face a retrial on criminal damage charges over a break-in at the UK base of an Israel-based defence firm, the CPS has announced.

BREAKING: The Prince and Princess of Wales have been "deeply concerned" by the on-going revelations from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal involving Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, Kensington Palace has said.

BREAKING: Former Conservative home secretary Suella Braverman has defected to Reform.

Three arrested after two incidents of disorder outside asylum seeker camp Police say two men and a woman shouted abuse and struck vehicle outside Crowborough military site in East Sussex Three people have been arrested after two occurrences of disorder outside Crowborough training camp, which is being used to house asylum seekers. A 36-year-old man and a 62-year-old woman from Crowborough, and a 54-year-old man from Newhaven were arrested on Saturday on suspicion of an offence under the Public Order Act and are now in police custody. Continue reading...

Three arrested after two incidents of disorder outside asylum seeker camp

Man shot dead by federal agents in Minneapolis The Minneapolis police chief Brian O'Hara says officers attended the scene of the shooting involving federal agents to find a man with multiple gunshot wounds

Man shot dead by federal agents in Minneapolis

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said it was "a good thing that yesterday the threat of tariffs against the United Kingdom was lifted and now we can start the hard yards of finding a way forward on security in the Arctic."

The UK will not take part in Donald Trump's Board of Peace signing ceremony today because of "concerns about President Putin being part of something which is talking about peace", Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said.

The most patriotic thing they could do is rally around their community, not stoke more and more division. The anger I feel toward them is incalculable.

The 'patriots' who stand outside yelling racist and misogynistic remarks outside the hotel will now be emboldened, and those without allegations against them will remain in danger. The thugs have never cared about women's safety and never will. This is not their moment to take away from the victim.

Planning to put my thoughts together more coherently in an article soon, but I need an initial vent. An asylum seeker at a local hotel has been charged with sexual assault. Thoughts are with the victim, and those who'll bear the brunt of intensified racist protests as a result.

At least four dead as floods sweep across Tunisia Floods swept across Tunisia amid the worst torrential rain for over 70 years in some regions, and there were fears the death toll could rise.

At least four dead as floods sweep across Tunisia reut.rs/3LUoeg8

Palestinian football pitch faces Israel demolition ultimatum The football club is ordered to remove the pitch, which Israel says was illegally built, or have it torn down.

Devastating story, once again showing Israel's inhumane approach to Palestinian lives:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Iran’s central bank using vast quantities of cryptocurrency championed by Farage, says report Regime appears to have turned to digital currency issued by Tether in the face of sanctions Iran’s central bank appears to have been using vast quantities of a cryptocurrency championed by Nigel Farage, according to a new report. Elliptic, a crypto analytics company, said it had traced at least $507m (£377m) of cryptocurrency issued by Tether – a company touted by the Reform UK leader – passing through accounts that appear to be controlled by Iran’s central bank. Continue reading...

Iran’s central bank using vast quantities of cryptocurrency championed by Farage, says report

Japan court sentences ex-PM Abe's assassin to life in prison, NHK reports A Japanese court on Wednesday sentenced a 45-year-old man to life imprisonment for fatally shooting former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, public broadcaster NHK reported, in an incident that stunned the nation three and a half years ago.

Japan court sentences ex-PM Abe's assassin to life in prison, NHK reports reut.rs/49V8f9M

Elon Musk's suggested he could buy Ryanair, escalating a public spat with the airline's chief executive. The Tesla boss asked his X followers whether he should take over the carrier, days after being called an 'idiot' during an interview. The row's about the use of WiFi on flights.

Unsurprising there are no women invited to the 'Board of Peace'. Although, if women were allowed to run countries, a 'Board of Peace' probably wouldn't be needed. And they say we're the dramatic, emotional ones...

The so-called 'Board of Peace' is turning out to have a ridiculous line-up. China, Russia, Azerbaijan, Israel and the US. Nightmare dinner party.

BREAKING: Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu accepts Donald Trump's invitation to join his 'Board of Peace'.

BREAKING: The leader of the Welsh Conservatives, Darren Millar, has removed the whip from MS James Evans - over talks he will defect to Reform UK

Worrying development in Afghanistan. The so-called Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for an explosion at a Chinese restaurant in Kabul that killed at least seven people, including a Chinese national. Hostile relations between the two rearing their head again perhaps.

At Minneapolis airport, @maitlis.bsky.social watches on as shackled ICE deportees board an aircraft.

"It's one of the most dystopian, the most chilling things, I think i've ever witnessed."

"The plane doesn’t have a name or number, it’s a 'dark plane' - it doesn’t officially exist."

The rate of UK unemployment remained unchanged at 5.1% in the three months to November, the Office for National Statistics said.

BREAKING: UK average regular earnings growth fell to 4.5% in the three months to November and was 0.9% higher after taking Consumer Prices Index inflation into account, the Office for National Statistics has said.

Iraq takes full control of air base after US withdrawal, defence ministry says U.S. forces have withdrawn from Iraq's Ain al-Asad Airbase, which housed U.S.-led forces in Western Iraq, and the Iraqi army has assumed full control, the Iraqi defence ministry said on Saturday.

Iraq takes full control of air base after US withdrawal, defence ministry says reut.rs/4sJvegf

BREAKING: The Charity Commission has for the first time issued official warnings to two Church of England dioceses over safeguarding failures related to allegations which led to the resignation of the then-bishop of Liverpool John Perumbalath in January 2025.

The Reform pitch is increasingly “the last government was terrible, so we’ve hired everyone who was in it”.

‘From 2019, the Conservatives left us without a border’ - says the man who served as Immigration Minister from 2022.

He really thought saying ‘quid’ instead of pounds would make him a man of the people. The looking around for a reaction killed me🤣You will never represent the people of this country Jenrick.

I’ve got to weigh into this ‘the best people in this country are up at 6am grafting’. I get a 4am night bus into work every day and am regularly the only white person on it. I’m surrounded by hardworking people of colour. Get out of your disgustingly privileged bubble and see the world perhaps.

‘Last year one illegal migrant (sic) raped a girl in Nuneaton’. How many white men have raped women since then Robert?