Home Office The Government is rebranding work already undertaken by PCCs and Police Forces as a new initiative. A lot of what is included is done annually or part of an existing scheme. There’s no new money. Only extra forms to fill in.

Congratulations to RUSI Deputy DG Malcolm Chalmers on his appointment as strategic adviser to John Healey Ministry of Defence 🇬🇧 . Malcolm has been a pillar of RUSI for 17 years. We will miss his expert knowledge & high academic standards and wish him well in his important new role

Great to see President Trump overruling Hegseth & Colby to restart weapons shipments to Ukraine. He can end the war but only if he's prepared to impose sufficient costs on Putin for continuing Trump says the US must send more weapons to Ukraine | AP News apnews.com/article/russia…

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The Church of England’s General Synod today passed a motion by 238-7 votes, requesting 'His Majesty’s Government work to improve funding and access to desperately needed palliative care services instead of enacting a law that puts the most vulnerable at risk.’ #AssistedDyingBill

Obviously the initial Afghan data breach was a terrible error, but it's not obvious to me that the government officials or ministers did anything wrong thereafter. Clearly there had to be no reporting. Clearly they had to try to bring many of the people to the UK.

Whatever your views about renewables, this is a reckless intervention by Reform Government reneging on legally-binding contracts with private firms would damage investment in UK infrastructure more widely, pushing up investor risk, financing costs and everyone’s bills

"In Moscow, there are stands where it is stated bluntly that the Baltic peoples are "sub-peoples", untermenschen. Lithuanians are puppets. Latvians are a nation in quotation marks. We are talking specifically about peoples. The only thing missing is data from measuring the

This by Katja Hoyer on Starmer/Merz summit is well worth reading. Interesting insights on the worldview of Germany's new leader & measured optimism about a better future for UK/Germany relations

Darren Grimes is what happens when you swap Conservative principles for Twitter populism. Don’t dress up hotel storming mobs as ‘democratic consent’ it’s not brave, it’s reckless. Real Conservatives believe in the rule of law, not pitchfork populism. Reform offers noise, not

To understand British public opinion - fairness, decency and respect for the rules are the trio to start with. Most have no time for sneering, rudeness. So this is a good eg of the online right mistakenly assuming they’re channeling public opinion, but couldn’t be further from it

Sad to hear that Maeve Kyle, Ireland’s first female Olympian in track and field, has passed away. She was a friend. My favourite Maeve story was track side in Florence in 1981 when I handed her my Casio watch and asked her if she could call my lap time out to me as the

The lesson for European democracies (in or out of EU) is to act with urgency & determination to build a European pillar of NATO able to deter our adversaries even without US help - and to explain to European electorates the painful choices on tax & spend required

London, 1941 Kyiv, 2025 The outcome will be the same: freedom prevails, tyranny fails.

Really good from John Burn-Murdoch - tracks exactly what we hear in focus groups and see in polling data. Rise in disorderliness is what people are talking about when they talk about rise in crime - supermarkets developing ever more intricate ways to wrap up a leg of lamb/phone theft

#OnThisDay in 1867, Stanley Baldwin was born. Baldwin dominated British politics in the inter-war years, but afterwards his legacy was tarnished by both the left and the right. His defenders, including Dominic Sandbrook, argue 'Baldwin deserves better... He was a great man.'

🇺🇸🇪🇺🇨🇳 Second part of our polling on Brits attitudes to foreign policy in today's The Times and The Sunday Times by caroline wheeler. This week looking at Brits attitudes to 3 big power blocs, the EU, the US & China. On Brexit we find just 29% of Brits would vote Leave if the Referendum were held today.