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Bravery and bagpipes: How British flair was crucial to D-Day's success

On June 6, 1944, three countries sent the bulk of their troops to land in Normandy: the United States, Britain and Canada. In this report, FRANCE 24's Claire Paccalin and Florence Gaillard look at how the British forces, who had already endured five years of war before D-Day, showed bravery…

France 24

Centenarian veterans are sharing their memories of D-Day, 80 years later

World War II veterans from across the United States as well as Britain and Canada are in Normandy this week to mark 80 years since the D-Day landings that helped lead to Hitler’s defeat

The Independent UK

I’ll welcome a Labour victory and a brighter future, but Britain deserves a better election than this

This is a contest in keeping with our political times. Too little genuine debate, too many key issues barely discussed at all, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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‘People were ready to move on’: D-day left little mark on key port of Southampton

‘Disparate’ 80th anniversary efforts reflect those around UK, where only in recent times have calls for memorials increased

The Guardian - UK

Starmer has mastered the speeches about Tory ‘chaos’ and ‘decline’, but Britain needs hope – where is it?

The Labour leader needs to say what is wrong with the country, but people need to know how he will make things better, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

The Guardian - UK

Country diary: These summer migrants are remarkable – and humbling

Moccas, Herefordshire: Pied flycatchers fly more than 13,000km from west Africa, up through Spain and on to Britain, and as far as Russia every summer

The Guardian - UK

Japan's Emperor And Empress To Pay Three-day State Visit To UK

Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako will visit Britain at the end of June, spending three days as guests of King Charles III, Buckingham Palace confirmed on Tuesday.

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Brexit Firebrand Farage Shakes Up UK Election Fight

Brexit figurehead Nigel Farage announced Monday he will stand at the UK general election next month, in a major U-turn that threatens to split the right-wing vote and further imperil the beleaguered ruling Conservatives.

International Business Times

OPINION - We’re stealing from the young to give to the old — politicians should raid pensions

It’s a frustration of mine that I often get the feeling people don’t seem to understand how on edge we are financially as a country. At the end of 2023/24 public sector net debt was £2.6 trillion, which is a staggering 98% of GDP. The interest the government has to…

Evening Standard

Labour leader Keir Starmer says he'll keep the UK's nuclear weapons in 'age of insecurity'

British opposition leader Keir Starmer has pledged to keep the U.K.’s nuclear weapons

The Independent UK

China charges couple with spying for UK’s MI6

Chinese intelligence claims husband recruited while studying in the United Kingdom, and later brought his wife on board.

Al Jazeera

Carnival dancers, stained glass and a haunted corner shop: a tour around Alvaro Barrington’s installation Grace

This fast-rising artist became known for his yarn paintings but has always thought beyond the canvas. Now he’s transplanting strands of his lives in Grenada, New York and London into the galleries of Tate Britain

The Guardian - UK

UK Labour Seeks To Reassure Voters On Defence

Britain's Labour opposition party committed Monday to ensuring the UK's nuclear arsenal, pitching itself as strong on defence for July's election in contrast to the last vote, when it lost heavily.

International Business Times

Remembering D-Day, RAF veteran Gilbert Clarke recalls the thrill of planes overhead

Gilbert Clarke leans back on the seat of his mobility scooter, cranes his neck and gazes into the bright blue skies over East London, remembering the moment 80 years ago when he knew the invasion of France was under way

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France, European powers push to censure Iran at UN nuclear meeting

France, Germany and Britain will seek to censure Iran over its lack of cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog at a board meeting starting this Monday in Vienna, despite US opposition.

International Business Times

China Says MI6 Recruited State Workers To Spy For UK

China on Monday accused Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) of recruiting a couple who worked for the central government to spy for the UK, adding to months of mutual espionage allegations between Beijing and Western powers.

The Conversation

31% of Australians are obese – is Ozempic a healthy solution? A GP considers Johann Hari’s inside take on a ‘mass experiment’

Obesity levels for adults have hit 26% in Britain and 42.5% in the United States, journalist Johann Hari writes in his new book, Magic Pill. In Australia, recent data shows we’re somewhere in the middle: 31%.

The Independent UK

UK’s nuclear deterrent key to Starmer’s plans to keep Britain safe

Labour leader Keir Starmer will meet with forces veterans and a group of his party’s candidates when he campaigns in the North West of England on Monday

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UK within British empire is like last person left at a party, says David Olusoga

Historian tells Hay festival audience that Britain needs to ‘liberate itself and have independence day from its own history’

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Jemma Reekie and Laura Muir storm to Diamond League victories in Stockholm

Jemma Reekie continued a fine season for Britain’s women’s 800m runners while her fellow Scot Muir kicked to a convincing 1500m win

The Guardian - UK

‘He didn’t have a contract for me’: the Indian careworkers who paid agents to work in Britain

People paid to obtain visas and sponsorship certificates but arrived to find little or no work, in abuses of care worker visa system

The Guardian - UK

Crime and punishment: how 14 years of Tory rule have changed Britain – in charts

The coronavirus pandemic had a huge effect on the justice system, but what else can the data show us?

The Guardian - UK

Immigration must be matched with investment in UK infrastructure to ease pressures

Net migration has benefits but has done nothing to address downward trend in per capita GDP

The Guardian - UK

Bohemian Bristol Central could be the one contest Labour loses on election night. Here’s why

The Greens have their sights set on Britain’s most pro-migrant constituency, where people once rioted over a new Tesco, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

The Independent UK

Britain going backwards on trans rights, warns first transgender judge

Exclusive: Pioneering lawyer Victoria McCloud says wave of hostility has led to ‘general acceptance that it’s OK to abuse trans people’

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