Just when it seemed that the episode of the football World Cup in which, after the semifinal between Argentina and England, the players of the albiceleste displayed a banner with the inscription "Las Malvinas son argentinas" had been buried in the archives, London and Buenos Aires have returned to the fray over the archipelago. On this occasion, due to its energy resources.

The Scottish National Party (SNP) is determined to show British Prime Minister Andy Burnham that independence, or at least a second referendum, has enough support among the country's citizens. For this reason, the independence supporters have taken advantage of the opening this Thursday of their annual conference, which is taking place in Aberdeen until Saturday, to launch the "Choose Scotland" campaign, defined by the SNP as the most ambitious since the 2014 referendum.

Donald Trump always manages to outdo himself, and this time his lack of empathy has outraged the United Kingdom. The President of the United States has shared through his social network, Truth Social, the video of the deadly tiger attack on a young British man, William Chapman, 24, accompanied by the comment: "Never mess with nature!" The events took place on Saturday at the Yorkshire Wildlife Park, a zoo located near Doncaster, in the north of England.

The announcement that Donald Trump made on Sunday regarding an energy truce between Russia and Ukraine has no value on the ground. This was confirmed this Wednesday afternoon by the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, from Downing Street, after Russia once again punished Kyiv with a large-scale attack of ballistic missiles and drones during the early hours. The impacts in residential areas have caused at least eight deaths and around twenty injuries, and the projectiles have damaged several energy facilities, which has once again left parts of the capital in the dark and aggravated supply difficulties.

Russia, hybrid warfare, Iran, artificial intelligence. The head of MI5, the British domestic intelligence service, Ken McCallum, warned this Tuesday of the rise of increasingly growing threats against the United Kingdom, and against the West in general. And he did so by emphasizing Moscow and Tehran as the main agents responsible for destabilization operations.

With eyes set on November 20, when the European Union and the United Kingdom will hold a new summit in Brussels to seal a pact cooked up by former premier Keir Starmer, the current British Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, assured the Commons this Monday: "I do not intend to reopen the [Brexit] referendum." But, at the same time, in a verbal pirouette that practically implies a double negative – and therefore, an affirmation – he has left the door open to any possibility.

In the west of London it is common to pay more than 4,000 pounds a month –about 4,700 euros– for a three-bedroom apartment. With a lot of luck, sharing a four-bedroom apartment can allow you to lower the bill to just over 3,000 pounds –about 3,500 euros–. In Edinburgh, a five-bedroom apartment, also generally shared among students, twenty minutes' walk from the Royal Mile –the city's historic and tourist center–, does not go below 3,000 pounds: it is often a case of homes without double glazing, a serious shortcoming because winters in Scotland are long and harsh.

A few days ago, the weekly Charlie Hebdo claimed that the English "might" have found their Pelicot case, in reference to Gisèle Pelicot, the French woman who in 2024 publicly exposed that she was raped by about fifty men while she was unconscious, after being repeatedly drugged by her husband over the years. The satirical publication thus focused on a very similar drama that took place in Stockport, one of the commuter towns south of Manchester, which became partially known in November 2025. On October 19, a mega-trial begins against eleven men accused of raping a woman while she was drugged. In the Pelicot trial, the public prosecutor brought 51 rapists before the court, including the husband.

Seventh arrest in connection with the alleged terrorist plot against the British airbase RAF Fairford, 160 kilometers west of London. This Tuesday, a 22-year-old British citizen was arrested in Westminster, in the center of the capital. The counter-terrorism police accuse him of preparing terrorist acts. The six people previously arrested, five British nationals aged between 23 and 25 and one British citizen of Iranian origin with dual nationality, were released on bail last week. However, they remain under investigation.

New chapter in the already endless serial about the alleged plot against the RAF Fairford air base. The United States has withdrawn throughout this Sunday all the bombers –a dozen– that it had deployed there after air force commanders received new information about a possible terrorist attack, with support from Iran, against the facility. The withdrawal occurred with such urgency that some of the planes took off while the tanker aircraft necessary to support them in flight were still being activated, according to American sources cited by The New York Times.

Twenty-four hours after British Prime Minister Andy Burnham stated that there were "solid indications" of Iranian involvement in the alleged plot against the British Royal Air Force base in Fairford, Scotland Yard, London's Metropolitan Police, has arrested a 25-year-old man with dual British and Iranian nationality in the last few hours. The man was arrested on Thursday in Westminster, in central London, on charges of preparing terrorist acts. Another man, a 26-year-old British citizen, was questioned. Police have searched two properties in this central district of the capital.

The G7 tries to lower the price of diesel through strategic reserves. The leaders of the seven main Western economies agreed this Friday to release up to one hundred million barrels of crude oil and petroleum products over the next four months, under the umbrella of the International Energy Agency (IEA). A substantial part of the diesel will hit the market during the first twenty days. This week the price of diesel had reached historic highs in numerous markets.

Andy Burnham has managed to stir up the British political hornet's nest with his first speech as Labour leader at the party's annual conference, which concludes this Wednesday in Liverpool. And he has done so with three proposals that could mark his future as premier –reform of the electoral law, implementation of a free and universal social care system for the elderly, and a rethink of the relationship with the European Union–, which he launched during his speech on Tuesday. Some have turned up their noses; others have seen a glimmer of light.

Between Tuesday night and Wednesday afternoon, there have been two new plot twists in the increasingly tangled story of the alleged attack on the RAF Fairford base. This Wednesday afternoon, in statements to several British media outlets, Prime Minister Andy Burnham endorsed the hypothesis put forward by United States President Donald Trump and his Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, regarding a possible Iranian involvement in the incident.

The independent commission in charge of investigating the 115 charges brought by the Premier League against Manchester City has concluded that the club "seriously and systematically" breached the competition's financial rules between the 2009-10 and 2017-18 seasons. According to the resolution, City – bought in 2008 by Sheikh Mansour, owner of the Abu Dhabi United Group (ADUG), the investment vehicle of the emirate's royal family – used "fictitious commercial contracts" and other deceptive accounting mechanisms to artificially inflate its revenue. In this way, the club also managed to reduce its expenses by more than 900 million pounds. Thus, a more favorable financial situation than the reality was presented.

An almost ecstatic Andy Burnham at some moments of his first speech as Prime Minister before the Labour Party conference, he promised this Tuesday "a clear direction" and a "profound change of course" for the United Kingdom. A new model that aims to break with what was imposed in the 80s of the 20th century, with Thatcherism, which must be articulated around "a ten-year plan" that he will present in November, and with which he wants to regain public control over areas considered essential: from water to electric energy, and with which he also wants to foster economic growth, which the country needs like the air to breathe.

The United States Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, insisted early this Tuesday on the theory of a foreign hand behind the incident that took place over the weekend in the vicinity of the RAF Fairford air base, 160 kilometers west of London, in the idyllic Cotswolds region. Speaking to the Fox network, and without wishing to go into much detail, Rubio asserted that "it is a situation in which there is clearly the hand of a foreign actor."

In the world of politics, everything is used. And everything is recycled. The announcement that the British Ministry of Defence made last week, according to which the construction of British submarines will begin next year within the framework of the Aukus agreement with the United States and Australia, has allowed Andy Burnham's executive to claim both national security and industrial policy. This was expressed this Monday by the Treasury Secretary, John Healy, in his speech before the annual Labour Party conference, which is taking place in Liverpool until Wednesday.

The alleged Iranian plot of the also alleged attack against the Royal Air Force (RAF) base in Fairford, used by the United States in its bombings against Iran, is deflating by the moment. The five arrested early Sunday morning, suspected of a possible terrorist attack, have been provisionally released this Monday afternoon. The arrest took place after a resident of the small village of Whelford, one of those surrounding the base, alerted to the presence of three white vans that were blocking access to her property, and saw a group of hooded people in balaclavas nearby.

In the film Passport to Pimlico (1949), the explosion of a World War II bomb uncovers an ancient royal charter proving that a part of this neighborhood in South London legally belongs to the Duchy of Burgundy. The discovery triggers a delirious debate over sovereignty and the identity of its inhabitants, who try to take advantage of the legal loophole to escape postwar restrictions. An administrative absurdity ends up becoming a matter of state.