Year: 2025

Don’t shift blame for economy’s woes, voters tell Reeves Daily Mail says the chancellor will seek to shift blame over the…

A new Sky News documentary, “10 Years of Darkness: ISIS & The Yazidis,” reveals that many Yazidi women remain enslaved in ISIS detention camps a decade after their initial abduction.

Reeves to face down unions over austerity Budget The Independent says a defiant chancellor will deliver her spring statement against…

Global shockwaves at data leak but Trump backs chump Metro reports that Trump dismissed the “humiliating” leak of US military attack…

Michael Gough and Joel Wilson have been removed from the ICC’s elite panel of umpires, with Allahuddien Paleker and Alex Wharf being appointed for the 2025-26 season.

City AM reports MPs and voters will “hear more” from the Chancellor on welfare cuts at the Spring Statement, the defence secretary has said.

The FT attacks what it calls the “sheer amateurism” of the Trump White House in the use of the messaging app to discuss plans to bomb Yemen.

Happy Wednesday – and most importantly, Happy Spring Statement Day! Today, Chancellor Rachel Reeves will set out her plans for the UK economy for the next year, presenting her budget plans to the Commons at 12:30. 

The chancellor is set to introduce significant changes aimed at balancing the UK’s public finances amidst economic uncertainty. Spending cuts are expected to be the main focus, with charities urging the government not to hit the poorest the hardest. 

There are continued reactions to the news that top Trump official Mike Walz accidentally added a journalist to a group chat where top US officials were discussing plans to bomb Yemen. 

The journalist leaked the messages, with the content from those messages leading headlines around the world. The major security blunder has led to questions in the US over Trump’s team and their lax approach to security. 

The content of the messages revealed what most of Europe already knew – the United States hates Europe, calling the continent ‘pathetic’ and ‘free loaders.’

Joshua Blackledge, a 16-year-old TikTok influencer with over one million followers, passed away on March 18 at his home in Newport, North Carolina; the cause of death remains undisclosed.