Tory MP Nick Fletcher said: “Much of the gender ideology criticism has come from women who are rightly concerned about its impact on women’s rights and child safeguarding. But the harms go much further. “Ideologues seek to shut down free speech and to undermine basic science and even our understanding of reality. “This IEA paper is a much-needed wake-up call […]

Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, a Democrat who represented Miami for one term in the House after immigrating to the United States from Ecuador, stepped forward on Tuesday to challenge the incumbent Republican, Rick Scott, for the Senate in 2024. Flipping the seat could be crucial for Democrats to keep their narrow majority in the Senate, but their path to victory in what […]

Captain says migrants are escorted by French patrol boats to UK waters Record numbers of people fleeing conflict and persecution are turning to the UK for sanctuary. In the year to March, 173,000 asylum seekers were awaiting an initial decision from the Home Office. While they wait, the Government has a duty to house them, at significant and growing cost. […]

When Gov. Bill Lee of Tennessee began a push in April to address public safety, his family was grieving the loss of two close friends, both educators killed in a mass shooting at a Nashville Christian school. His call for millions of dollars to harden school security was embraced by Republicans in the legislature, who flanked him during a formal […]

Rishi Sunak last week said there is “light at the end of the tunnel” with average weekly pay going up by 7.8 percent in the three months to June. But voters still think the country is heading into trouble. Exclusive polling by Omnisis found 62 percent believe the economy is getting worse – with a mere 11 percent saying it […]

Badenoch hails CPTPP trade deal International Trade Minister Nigel Huddleston is heading to Indonesia and Vietnam in a bid to boost trade with Southeast Asia. He will join economic ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member states in Semarang to strengthen ties with the trading group. Mr Huddleston will then co-host the UK-Vietnam Joint Economic and Trade […]

Sadiq Khan 'unwilling to delay' Ulez expansion Sadiq Khan is facing a ULEZ rebellion with hundreds of cameras vandalised or stolen in just four months. The Met Police had recorded 288 crimes relating to ULEZ cameras as of August 1. This includes 185 reports of cables being damaged, 164 cameras being stolen and 38 cameras being obscured. Commander Owain Richards […]

An opposition research memo about the Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy that was written by the super PAC supporting Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida invokes the entrepreneur’s Hindu faith and family visits to India. The document’s first paragraph, addressing Mr. Ramaswamy’s past support for inheritance taxes, draws a link between that policy position and his Hindu upbringing as the son […]

The scoop of a lifetime for George Chidi, a freelance journalist in Georgia, began at the State Capitol on the morning of Dec. 14, 2020, when a longtime source walked briskly past, eyes averted as if he didn’t know him, then disappeared into Room 216. Mr. Chidi, concluding that something odd was taking place on the other side of the […]