13 h. ago Retribution fears as Australian Muslims see surge in Islamophobic hate since Bondi terror attack

Security stepped up at mosques amid spate of targeted abuse as leaders mourn Bondi victims and say community will not ‘claim victimhood’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThreats and hate speech against Muslim Australians have surged in the wake of the Bondi beach attack, with one mosque receiving dozens of offensive phone calls and reports of people being targeted in the street.As Australia’s Jewish community deals with trauma from the attack that killed 15 people at a Hanukah event, religious leaders say societal and political divisions has led to other groups being targeted by hatred. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago How support for Labour crumbled in Britain in 2025 with Rachel Reeves' popularity plunging

Backing for the Tories also fell, went up slightly for Reform UK, was unchanged for the Liberal Democrats while the biggest gainers this year were the Greens

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6 d. ago Corey Feldman alleges Corey Haim ‘molested’ him while they were making The Lost Boys

Feldman has previously claimed that both men were sexually abused when they were child actors

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6 d. ago Nigel Farage urged to apologise after 25 classmates said he was racist at school

For the first time, a number of former pupils of Dulwich College have united to speak out on the Reform leader, and publicly claim that he racially abused them during his school days

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7 d. ago 'Evil Jesus' used Bitcoin to pay for murder on dark web in Online Killers Market

Martin Ready paid £5,071.24 in Bitcoin and sent instructions for a prosecutor to be shot on a dark website called Online Killers Market - but it turned out to be fraudulent

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1 week ago Sadiq Khan says Farage racism claims 'incredibly credible' as he recalls own abuse

Appearing on LBC's Sunday with Lewis Goodall, the Mayor of London was asked his opinion about claims made by Farage's former schoolmates

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1 week ago ‘Human trafficking behind prison walls’: women jailed in Texas allege rampant sexual abuse

Women at FMC Carswell – long a focus of sexual abuse investigations – say prison officials have turned a blind eyeEleven women incarcerated at a federal prison in Texas allege they have been subjected to rampant sexual abuse by staff members in the past seven years. The allegations are the latest accusations of abuse within a federal prison system rife with claims of inhumane conditions.The allegations at FMC Carswell, a federal medical women’s prison in Fort Worth, Texas, are particularly troubling because the facility has been the focus of sexual abuse investigations for years, with 13 staff members convicted of abuse and misconduct since 1997 and promises of reform at various times. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Now the new Archbishop of Canterbury 'is accused of mishandling an abuse claim'

A complainant, known only as N, has claimed The Right Rev Dame Sarah Mullally dealt with an abuse claim against a London priest improperly.

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1 week ago No 10 publishes list of 34 new political peerages including 25 Labour, five Liberal Democrats and three Conservatives – UK politics live

Downing Street publishes list including ex-Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies and Iceland supermarket chief Richard Walker Reeves is now being asked about the leak to the Financial Times on 13 November saying that Reeves had dropped plans to raise income tax in the budget.Reeves claims some aspects of the story were misleading. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Starmer rules out joining customs union with EU, saying it would not be sensible to ‘unravel’ US trade deal – UK politics live

Starmer was responding to a question from Lib Dem leader Ed Davey at PMQsReeves is now being asked about the leak to the Financial Times on 13 November saying that Reeves had dropped plans to raise income tax in the budget.Reeves claims some aspects of the story were misleading. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Met Police accused of ‘brushing under carpet’ claim officer ran grooming gang abusing girls in care

The Metropolitan Police is reviewing allegations a retired officer was involved in a London VIP paedophile ring

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2 w. ago Tory 'war on workers' as Kemi Badenoch says minimum wage shouldn't go any higher

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch's comments come just weeks after Chancellor Rachel Reeves confirmed pay hikes for around 2.6million workers at her Budget from April 2026

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2 w. ago New Orleans Catholic archdiocese gains approval to pay $230m to sexual abuse survivors

Settlement also includes major changes to how church identifies and discloses past claims of abuse by clergyAfter more than five years of litigation, a federal bankruptcy judge has approved the Roman Catholic archdiocese of New Orleans’ proposal to pay $230m to roughly 600 survivors of sexual abuse by the church’s priests, deacons and other personnel.Judge Meredith Grabill on Monday confirmed the settlement, which also includes major changes to how the church identifies and discloses past claims of sexual abuse by clergy and protects children and vulnerable adults going forward. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Questions over Reform’s donations as electoral watchdog urged to investigate crypto links

The Lib Dems and Labour have called for a probe after claims Mr Farage may have ‘abused his position as an MP’

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2 w. ago Reform deputy leader dismisses claims of Farage’s past racism as new witnesses come forward

Richard Tice says testimony by about two dozen people about party leader’s school days is ‘made-up twaddle’Reform UK’s deputy leader has described a celebrated film director and a large and growing group of corroborating witnesses as liars over their allegations of Nigel Farage’s teenage antisemitism and racism.With the bigotry row continuing to dog Reform, whose lead in the national polls has slipped in recent weeks, Richard Tice turned on those who claimed to have been abused and those who say they saw it. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago DAN HODGES: Rachel Reeves is bang to rights. And in his eagerness to find a scapegoat, Starmer has now made a fatal blunder

Finally. After the days of obfuscation, deflection and flat-out lying surrounding Rachel Reeves's Budget deceit, Kemi Badenoch has cut through to the heart of the issue. 

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3 w. ago Reeves accused of forcing OBR chief to quit after watchdog revealed truth about Budget black hole

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch has accused Rachel Reeves for forcing Richard Hughes to resign as chairman of the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) because he revealed that she had potentially misled the public over the existence of a spending black hole

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3 w. ago Badenoch: Reeves could be prosecuted for market abuse over claims before Budget

The Chancellor has faced accusations she misled voters by overstating the scale of the fiscal challenge, but has denied doing so.

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3 w. ago Missing football coach now wanted over sex abuse claims after vanishing with a gun

Travis Turner vanished last week sparking urgent pleas for his whereabouts, but it later emerged he was wanted on child sex abuse charges. After initially using social media to plea for information, wife Leslie Caudill Turner has deleted her account

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3 w. ago Budget 'lies' storm: Starmer grilled on whether Reeves misled public and Cabinet over nation's finances

The row threatens to overshadow the Prime Minister’s attempts to get people to focus on the ‘substance’ of the Government’s spending and reform plans

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