Politics (Page 610)

It is generally assumed that the best candidates for the job of prime minister are people who have considerable experience of top-level politics. Ideally, this experience would involve having served in the cabinet and in particular, having occupied one of the “great offices of state” – chancellor of the exchequer,Continue Reading

The Serb leader in Bosnia & Herzogovina, Milorad Dodik, has been an outspoken supporter of Russia's president Vladimir Putin. RSplaneta/Shutterstock The EU continues to keep Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo, North Macedonia and Serbia on the waiting list to join, despite the possibility that the region could shift closerContinue Reading

zjtmath / Shutterstock The state of abortion laws in the US has many in the UK wondering about reproductive rights in their own country. While abortion is largely accessible in the UK, its legal status is more precarious than many understand. Whichever government is in power next, it has theContinue Reading

Young parents often look for the name that will be as unique as their kid. Minnie Zhou | Unsplash You might be one of those people who, since their own childhood, has curated lists of potential names for any children you might have. Or your interest in names might onlyContinue Reading

Chintung Lee / Shutterstock Sir Mo Farah has bravely revealed that he was trafficked to the UK as a child, taken to a new country by a woman he didn’t know and forced to work as a domestic servant. Farah’s story is harrowing and more common than many think. ModernContinue Reading

A planeload of passengers destined for Dublin were left stranded in Majorca “with no information” for hours as their TUI flight faced a more than 24-hour delay. The flight from Palma de Mallorca Airport was due to depart at 1.35pm on Saturday but one passenger reported that travellers were insteadContinue Reading

Plus: A wild Indian cricket scam, an elite CIA hacker is found guilty of passing secrets to WikiLeaks, and more of the week’s top security news.Continue Reading

RJ N A second round of voting among Conservative MPs has whittled the candidates in the running to replace Boris Johnson as leader down to five. Rishi Sunak, the former chancellor, finished top with the votes of 101 Tory MPs, Penny Mordaunt, the international trade secretary, was second with 81,Continue Reading

The Kinahan cartel took Michael Barr’s life when they shot him dead at the Sunset House pub in 2016, but they didn’t take his “lasting love and legacy”, Mr Barr’s sister has told the Special Criminal Court. In a statement read out at a sentence hearing for the third manContinue Reading