Wildfires erupted across Britain over the past week amid the driest start to spring in nearly 70 years. Fires burned through forested areas in Scotland, Wales and England, coinciding with declining river levels and warnings of drought. In Scotland, a…
The Trump factor is shaping global politics, one election at a time — just not necessarily to the president’s taste. In major votes in Canada and Australia over the past two weeks, centrists saw their fortunes revived, while parties that…
Nigel Farage’s Reform U.K. party has emerged as the biggest winner of the first major polls since Labour swept into government last summer. Voters have been selecting councilors for about 1,600 municipal seats in 23 areas, as well as six…
Transgender women will be barred from playing for female soccer teams in England from June 1, the Football Association, the sport’s governing body in the country, has said. In a statement, the Football Association, known as the F.A., said that…
Local elections taking place in England on Thursday are the first major test of the political climate since Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his Labour Party swept to power in a landslide victory last year. A lot has changed since…
A man has been charged with a terrorism offense in London after he attempted to enter the Israeli Embassy armed with a knife, the police said on Wednesday. The Metropolitan Police, which is responsible for law enforcement in London, said…
The pulsing beat of a dance track grew to a thunderous pitch and the crowd rose to its feet. Beams of light flashed across the cavernous arena in Birmingham, central England. Then, at last, Nigel Farage, the right-wing populist leader…
Two men used a chain saw to deliberately cut down the celebrated Sycamore Gap tree in the north of England in a “moronic mission” a year and a half ago, and the felling was filmed on a cellphone, a prosecutor…
Mr. Steggle suggests that Mrs. Shakespeare’s movements should be reconsidered with an eye to her “possible absences from London rather than her perpetual absence.” The note to Mrs. Shakespeare concerned money for a fatherless child named John, who was an…
British laws restricting what the police can say about criminal cases are “not fit for the social media age,” a government committee said in a report released Monday in Britain that highlighted how unchecked misinformation stoked riots last summer. Violent…
