President Donald Trump took aim at UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer during a press event in Scotland on Monday, raising concerns about the state of free speech in Britain. The moment unfolded during Starmer’s visit to Trump’s Turnberry golf course, where the two leaders met for bilateral discussions.
France and Britain sealed a nuclear agreement Thursday, marking a major shift in European defense amid concerns over Washington's diminishing role in global security.
Britain is set to implement its largest defense spending increase since the Cold War, aiming to send a clear “message to Moscow,” UK Defense Secretary John Healey said Sunday. The Labour government’s plan will push defense spending to 2.5% of national income by 2027—an increase of £13 billion ($17 billion) annually—and Healey expects it to reach 3% in the early 2030s.
Britain is now spending nearly £1 billion per month in welfare payments to migrant households, according to new government figures. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) revealed that £941 million in universal credit was distributed to households with at least one foreign national in March—a staggering increase from £461 million just three years ago.
The Trump administration has dispatched a team of U.S. State Department diplomats to the United Kingdom to investigate mounting concerns over the erosion of free speech rights. A team from the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) visited Britain in March, meeting with pro-life activists arrested for silently praying outside abortion clinics, as well as UK officials and members of Ofcom, the country’s broadcasting regulator now tasked with enforcing internet censorship under the controversial Online Safety Act.
British authorities arrested two parents, Maxie Allen and Rosalind Levine, for expressing concerns about school leadership in a private WhatsApp group—a move critics are calling a direct assault on free speech and parental rights.
Since Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party came to power last year, British millionaires have been leaving the country at an unprecedented rate, fleeing the punitive tax policies that have come to define Labour’s left-wing agenda.
South Korea’s Constitutional Court was forced to adjourn its first impeachment hearing for President Yoon Suk-yeol on Tuesday after he failed to attend, citing security concerns. Yoon, impeached in December following his abrupt imposition of martial law, faces charges of insurrection and is subject to an arrest warrant, further complicating the political turmoil.
