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Sep 4, 2026 - World

Nazir Afzal to focus in review’s first stage on support given to professor in immediate period before his deathThe University of Cambridge has asked Nazir Afzal, a former chief crown prosecutor for north-west England, to lead the first part of its review into the death of the scholar Jason Arday.Arday died at his home in south London on 14 August, nine days after his resignation as a Cambridge professor amid swirling allegations of plagiarism and inconsistencies in statements about his career. Continue reading...

Sep 4, 2026 - World

President Donald Trump's "incoherence" in a little-noticed exclusive interview with GB News caught the eye of a British journalist who was startled by what he witnessed, he said Friday. During the interview, a rambling Trump managed to touch on subjects ranging from immigration to Meghan Markle's return to Britain, prompting iPaper columnist James Ball to argue the president was an “elderly man” who no longer had a grasp of reality.“Trump has always been a little chaotic, with at best a loose relationship with the truth," he wrote. "But based on his remarks in an extended interview with GB News, the US President is only getting worse. In the space of minutes, he managed what amounted to little more than a concentrated stream of nonsense about the UK, Iran, and even the Falkland Islands.” Ball took umbrage with Trump's claim that he was "saving your country" — arguing the U.S. president was doing something very different.“The US President seems fixated on securing the gratitude of British and European politicians for a war they didn’t want him to start, which never secured congressional approval, and for which he’s never formally set out any goals," the columnist wrote. "It also doesn’t seem to have made us any safer – quite the opposite.”According to Trump, England stood at risk of an imminent nuclear threat from Iran, to which Ball replied, “This is an odd way to understand a nuclear capability.”“Countries don’t immediately launch nuclear missiles as soon as they obtain them – instead, they generally use them to try to deter invasion by their adversaries,” he reasoned. “Why Iran would immediately launch its theoretical nukes against European nations who hadn’t involved themselves in the war against it is never spelt out by Trump.”Ball pointed out that US presidents rarely give interviews to foreign media, and only when they have ”something important to say, or a serious message that he needed to make sure reached the people of that country.”On that count, Trump failed, Ball argued.“Instead, it was a display of an increasingly elderly and incoherent man, ranting only semi-coherently about world affairs," he wrote. "Trump used to be a man who wanted to look in control at all times. Now, though, he just looks like he’s lost it." - YouTube youtu.be

Sep 4, 2026 - World

Italy's Premier Giorgia Meloni has celebrated a milestone for her government

Sep 4, 2026 - World

This blog is now closed, you can read more on this story hereBritish ministers have hit back after the Argentinian president said “winds of change” favourable to his country’s claim to the Falklands were “blowing around the world”, Kiran Stacey reports.The Electoral Commission has issued a statement this morning saying it is in touch with the police about the undercover investigation into Reform UK. In a statement, it said:We are considering all relevant information, in line with our regulatory remit, and we are in touch with the Met police.The Electoral Commission has not approved the donor vetting process for Reform, or any other party. Parties are responsible for ensuring their internal processes and controls are fit for purpose. Continue reading...

Sep 4, 2026 - World

Togo-sponsored resolution called to phase out traditional map that depicts continent as similar size to GreenlandThe United Nations has voted to adopt a resolution for the world to formally phase out the traditional Mercator map of the globe in favour of one that more accurately displays Africa’s size.In a session at its headquarters in New York, the UN general assembly officially retired the 16th-century Mercator projection in favour of one based on the more accurate 2018 Equal Earth design. Continue reading...