UK summit combats immigration crime
World leaders gathered in London this week for a landmark summit aimed at tackling the global threat of organised immigration crime (OIC). Prime
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Farage’s electoral war cry
Nigel Farage, flanked by fake betting shops, shuttered pubs and overflowing bins, rolled into Birmingham on a JCB and declared war – not
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April Fool’s Day cancelled
It’s traditional on this date, April 1, to play pranks on friends, family and work colleagues – but not this year. That’s because
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Guns removed from WM streets
More than 60 Turkish-made handguns have been removed from the streets of the West Midlands as part of a national weapons amnesty, police
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xAI buys X for $45bn
In a bold manoeuvre that further blurs the lines between his tech ventures, Elon Musk has announced that his artificial intelligence company, xAI,
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Gaza: Odai Saadi – remember the name
In the theatre of tyranny, image is everything. And in Gaza this week, the curtain was torn down in the most horrific of
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Buying into Brum’s story
If we ignore the reputationally ruinous bin strike saga for a moment and look at the bigger picture, one thing is clear: Birmingham
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Taiwan’s posture of public strength
In the grand amphitheatre of geopolitics, Taiwan just took centre stage – and it’s not reading from the old script. The island’s latest
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Turkey: Erdoğan ejects BBC
The playbook is familiar: detain, deflect, deport. This time, it’s the BBC’s Mark Lowen cast as the foreign antagonist in Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s
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Just Stop Oil just stopped
The eco-activists who turned Britain’s cultural and sporting calendar into a stage for climate theatre say they’re “hanging up the hi-vis” and ending