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Keir Starmer pledges £200m for Grangemouth oil refinery site
Keir Starmer has announced £200m in funding to boost investment at Grangemouth oil refinery, which is closing down with the loss of more than 400 jobs.
The prime minister said the national wealth fund would provide £200m in state investment for up to five companies who moved to Grangemouth, where …
‘We’re healing this common body we call a nation’: the plays assessing Kenya’s present by retelling its past
On a recent Saturday at an auditorium in Nairobi, a rapt audience of more than 600 people held their breath as the revered Kenyan statesman and independence activist Tom Mboya walked out of a pharmacy with his friend Mohini Sehmi.
Gunshots rang out. “Did you hear that?” a panicked Sehmi …
Starmer unlikely to unveil plan for rise in defence spending this week, says minister
Keir Starmer is unlikely to set out a plan for when the UK will increase its defence spending to 2.5% of GDP this week, a cabinet minister has indicated.
Bridget Phillipson, the education secretary, said the 2.5% target was “ambitious”, despite Labour previously claiming it would set out a path …
Anti-migrant hate is flourishing in Germany’s ‘time of the cowards’ | Musa Okwonga
‘Trump and Musk are gaslighting’: anti-apartheid artist on how US president and his billionaire ally are attacking South Africa
For more than 50 years, Sue Williamson’s art has been shining a light on South Africa’s problems – first to campaign against the apartheid state, and then to question how far the country has progressed in reconciliation and remembrance.
But as she prepares for her first retrospective exhibition, the 84-year-old …
‘Starmer’s big moment’: can PM persuade Trump not to give in to Putin?
When Keir Starmer is advised on how to handle his crucial meeting with Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday, he will be told by advisers from Downing Street and the Foreign Office to be very clear on his main points and, above all, to be brief.
“Trump gets …
How UK and EU could find more money for defence without spooking the markets
Can Britain increase defence spending without cuts elsewhere?
Rachel Reeves is constrained by fiscal rules that govern the extent of the UK’s debts and the annual spending deficit by the end of the parliament. Following lower than expected tax receipts and higher borrowing costs in the current financial year, it …
Can Moldova – population 2.4m – show the world how to stand up to Putin?
How can a democracy defend itself from an attacker who does not respect any democratic rules?
When your assailant uses corruption, blackmail, economic war, cyber attacks, covert campaigns and street violence – while all you have are inefficient courts and even slower international institutions. Can you lose your sovereignty by …
German voters head to polls facing world of change as far right waits in the wings
German voters go to the polls today but it is a different world from when the campaign began only a few weeks ago.
Nearly 60 million people are choosing a government that will have to grapple with the breakdown of the transatlantic alliance under Donald Trump and new threats to …
Ukraine war briefing: Volodymyr Zelenskyy praises Keir Starmer for pledge of ‘ironclad support’
Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday praised the UK for showing “leadership” on the war with Russia
after the British prime minister,Keir Starmer, pledged his “ironclad support” for Kyiv
in a phone call. Ahead of a planned meeting with Donald Trump this week, Starmer insisted that Ukraine must …