The Latest Breaking News from Britain

Britain’s invisible people are caught in a welfare trap.

Britain's government was considering Wednesday whether to appeal a court ruling blocking the housing of asylum seekers in a flashpoint hotel, as it scrambled to come up with contingency plans for the migrants.

Politicians love a single, unifying narrative, but it’s more complicated for those of us who see UK life and history through a different lens, says author and broadcaster Mihir Bose

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has scored a major victory in its long-running fight to protect user privacy, with U.S. intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard announcing that Britain has dropped its demand for a backdoor into the company's encrypted services.

At the same time as we applaud the suffragettes and the likes of Peter Tatchell, Britain is losing the right to protest, says Mark Borkowski, a crisis PR consultant

Over 2,000 firms collapsed in England and Wales in July as Rachel Reeves' tax hikes, rising wages, and high interest rates push Britain's businesses into crisis.

For the tenth time this year, a wildfire warning covers most of Scotland. The latest alert came after a recent, and not the first, gorse fire on Arthur’s Seat, Edinburgh’s iconic ancient volcano that draws millions of visitors every year. Fire crews think human activity caused the fire. This is…

French President Emmanuel Macron, in Washington for talks on long-term security guarantees for Ukraine, said France and Britain would hold a meeting on Tuesday with Kyiv's allies. But he warned against trusting Russian President Vladimir Putin, whom he called "an ogre at our gates".

COMMENT: Flags of every stripe – St George, Palestine, rainbow… – are routinely being tied to lamp posts across the country, only to be taken down by beleaguered council workers. Is this a warning sign of a society going mad, asks Sean O’Grady

Britain has dropped its demand for Apple to provide backdoor access to encrypted user data stored in the cloud

COMMENT: As his health deteriorates in a Hong Kong jail, the businessman’s detention is now a test of Keir Starmer’s seriousness about human rights – and the government’s willingness to defend its citizens and values abroad, says Jodie Ginsberg