Downpours set to drench UK again after record rainy March

Met Office shares week ahead weather Downpours are set to drench the UK just days before Britons are to enjoy a long bank holiday weekend. Maps from the Met Office show high pressure will keep the weather across the UK settled on Monday and Tuesday. The high pressure will give way to fronts pushing eastwards, which are set to bring […]

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Ukraine unveils plan to recapture Crimea and free it from Putin’s grip

Ukraine has outlined a plan for how it could seize control of Crimea back from Putin’s grip – including dismantling a key bridge that the despot is said to be particularly proud of. Oleksiy Danilov, the secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defence Council, published the plan ahead of Kyiv’s planned counteroffensive this spring. While Moscow annexed Crimea in 2014, […]

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Why neoliberal measuring sticks don't work anymore

Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios Neoliberalism is dead; globalization is in retreat; we've now entered a new world where deep geopolitical tensions get surfaced in protectionist trade policies, no matter who sits in the Oval Office. The big picture: Economists and globalists are, predictably enough, convinced this is very bad news. Why it matters: Despite the fact that politicians and the public […]

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Ukraine hunts for Putin’s ‘Butchers of Bucha’

Ukraine: President Zelensky visits Bucha in April A year ago, shocking evidence of Russia’s war crimes was discovered in Bucha, a city just outside the Ukrainian capital Kyiv. More than 450 bodies were found, with Ukraine reporting evidence that many civilians had been tortured and killed during Russia’s initial invasion. Ukrainian police found 40 bodies on one street alone after […]

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