13 h. ago Silicon Valley wanted to build floating libertarian paradises on the ocean. The plan failed — but now seasteading is back

They promised utopian paradises, unshackled by governments and buoyed by tech. What they built instead was a costly illusion. Holly Baxter reports on how seasteading started, unraveled and is now rising again in popularity

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15 h. ago SUE REID: As Government promises to stop the boats, revealing pictures of crowds queuing in France to catch traffickers' ride to Dover will startle and anger Britain

REID: All the migrants at the quayside bus stop were waiting for a free local ride to the beaches to run towards the boats which are now operated like a taxi service across to Dover.

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19 h. ago SUE REID: As Government promises to stop the boats, startling pictures of crowds queuing in France to catch traffickers' ride to Dover will startle and anger Britain

REID: All the migrants at the quayside bus stop were waiting for a free local ride to the beaches to run towards the boats which are now operated like a taxi service across to Dover.

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55 h. ago People smugglers are drugging children before they are put on small boats to cross Channel, Solicitor General reveals

Lucy Rigby said she had been warned by the Crown Prosecution Service that the gangs were attempting to make the children more co-operative as they undertake the dangerous journey from France.

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4 d. ago Video shows lethal U.S. missile strike on Venezuela 'drug boat' as Trump reveals 11 Tren de Aragua members were killed

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he was briefed about a military operation where the U.S. 'shot out a boat' involved in the drug trade coming out of Venezuela.

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4 d. ago Trump reveals U.S. 'shot out a drug boat' carrying narcotics from Venezuela

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he was briefed about a military operation where the U.S. 'shot out a boat' involved in the drug trade coming out of Venezuela.

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7 d. ago Starmer promises action on small boat migrants as pressure mounts on Government

Former lord chancellor Lord Falconer said the Government had to convince people it had an answer to the crisis.

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1 week ago A decade after throwing open its borders to millions of migrants, Germany is now proof Farage's deportation flights pledge can work, writes SUE REID

SUE REID: Chancellor Friedrich Merz announced this week that the German welfare state is no longer sustainable for either its own people or the millions of Merkel newcomers. The welcome is over.

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1 week ago First time buyer, 24, is left with £50,000 debt after buying dream 'empty home' under government scheme that promised to fund it

Abigail, who purchased a property in Pembrokeshire in June 2024, claimed the Welsh Government's Empty Home Grant is a 'scam' - saying she was ignored for months and left financially stranded

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1 week ago Labour urged to agree to 'bespoke' oil and gas permits after independent review findings

Keir Starmer’s government has been urged to agree a compromise to its promised ban on new oil and gas licences.

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1 week ago Nigel Farage vows to deport 600,000 asylum seekers if Reform UK wins power as he warns Channel migrant 'invasion' is a 'threat to public order'

In a speech in Oxfordshire this morning, Mr Farage unveiled his party's 'Operation Restoring Justice' proposals to tackle the Channel migrant crisis.

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1 week ago 'This is an invasion': Nigel Farage warns migrant crisis is a 'threat to public order' as he unveils plan for mass deportations and accuses France and Britain of 'colluding in support of criminals'

The Reform UK leader, in a major speech in Oxfordshire, unveiled his party's 'Operation Restoring Justice' proposals to deal with illegal migration.

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1 week ago Amsterdam’s squatter wars are back – and wealthy Dutch homeowners have only themselves to blame | Senay Boztas

Those already on the property ladder are fuelling a shameful disparity. Until they wake up, the krakers will keep comingThe late Dutch author and Holocaust survivor Marga Minco once wrote about an empty house in Amsterdam where she and a group of artists and students took refuge towards the end of the second world war. Last month, the house she lived in for decades was squatted by a new generation of the dispossessed. In the Dutch capital’s overpriced, overcrowded housing market, where homes fetch more per square metre on average than they do in London, the squatters, or krakers, are back.They are the byproduct of a crisis that has spiralled out of control, in which growing anger is justifiably focused on a startling and unsustainable unfairness: the cost of the country’s generous tax breaks for homeowners, who make up more than half of the population, is being borne by hard-working tenants. The return of squatting is a symptom of a public mood that is increasingly furious about the...

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1 week ago Ministers prepare to deport migrants as Reform unveils small boats plan

Reform UK, which has sought to gain from public dissatisfaction about migration, will reveal its plans to tackle the small boats crisis.

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1 week ago Notting Hill Carnival in pictures as huge crowds turn out for first day of celebration

Notting Hill Carnival got underway today as the streets of London were transformed with a spectacular display of music, dance and colourful costumes for the event's 59th year

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2 w. ago Government promises asylum appeals overhaul as hotel protests continue

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said a new appeals body would help speed up the system and reduce demand for hotels.

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2 w. ago SUE REID: Ten years ago, Angela Merkel opened Germany's borders to Syrian refugees. It was a trigger for mass arrivals across the Continent and a decade that changed Europe for ever

Ten years ago Germans were putting balloons on lamp posts to greet a multitude of foreigners. The popular tabloid, Bild, screamed the headline 'Refugees Welcome'.

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2 w. ago STEPHEN GLOVER: Even our family homes are not sacrosanct for this desperate, foolish Government. If Starmer breaks his promise on Capital Gains Tax, no one should trust anything he says ever again

Until now those fortunate enough to own their home have had the consolation that they won't have to pay Capital Gains Tax on it if they come to sell, writes STEPHEN GLOVER. No longer, it seems.

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2 w. ago Scrapping of audit watchdog for English councils ‘led to soaring costs and chaos’

High critical report finds that instead of promised annual saving of £100m, fees have rocketed amid financial crisisDavid Cameron’s “bonfire of the quangos” decision to abolish England’s council spending watchdog has left a broken system that is costing taxpayers more money than it was promised to save.In a highly critical report, academics at the University of Sheffield said the coalition government of the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats had promised savings of £100m a year by abolishing the Audit Commission. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Stephen Robinson pushing the St Mirren boat forward as he reveals reasons behind new Buddies deal

Robinson and assistant Brian Kerr have committed to another three years in charge of the Paisley club

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