Britain’s first transgender judge, Victoria McCloud, is seeking to bypass the UK Supreme Court by appealing to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg. McCloud, who was appointed in 2010 and retired earlier this year, is challenging the April ruling that affirmed biological sex as binary, stating, “a person is either a woman or a man.”
The United Kingdom has dropped its demand that Apple provide backdoor access to Americans’ encrypted data following negotiations with the Trump administration. The move, confirmed Tuesday by President Donald Trump’s Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, ends months of tensions over privacy and surveillance concerns.
A new survey reveals overwhelming public support in Britain for deporting foreign nationals convicted of sexual crimes, with nearly nine in ten voters backing the policy. The poll, conducted by Find Out Now and reported by The Telegraph, highlights deep concern over the impact of mass migration on women’s safety.
U.S. Vice President JD Vance met Saturday at Chevening House in Kent, England, with UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy and representatives from Ukraine and Europe in what a U.S. official described as “significant progress” toward ending the war in Ukraine. The meeting, hosted by Lammy at Washington’s request, lasted several hours and was aimed at advancing President Donald Trump’s stated goal of securing peace between Russia and Ukraine.
Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) will assume control of a high-profile investigation into allegations that former South Yorkshire Police officers were complicit in the Rotherham grooming gang scandal — including accusations that some officers personally raped victims.
U.S. Vice President JD Vance arrived in Britain on Friday for his summer holiday and used the occasion to caution Western allies against adopting censorship policies similar to those he says the United States experienced under former President Joe Biden.
Senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad openly celebrated that fruits of October 7—the terrorist attack that murdered over 1,200 Israelis—are now producing political gains in the West.
Protests erupted across England on Saturday over the British government’s continued use of hotels to house mostly young, male illegal migrants. What began as a local backlash in Epping, Essex, has now grown into a national movement, drawing thousands in cities such as London, Manchester, and Newcastle.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan is facing criticism for refusing to debate Reform UK leader Nigel Farage on the city’s worsening crime crisis. Farage, who recently launched the “Britain is Lawless” campaign, challenged Khan to a televised debate, accusing him of failing to address soaring crime rates in the capital.
British users of the social media platform X reported being blocked from viewing footage of anti-mass migration protests following the activation of the UK's Online Safety Act on Friday. The legislation, passed under the previous Conservative government, is already facing sharp backlash for allegedly enabling widespread censorship.
