Prince Harry suffered one of the most significant judicial defeats of his long battle against the British tabloid press this Tuesday. The High Court of Justice of England and Wales has entirely dismissed the lawsuit filed by the Duke of Sussex and six other British public figures against the publisher of the tabloid newspaper Daily Mail, Associated Newspapers, concluding that they have not been able to prove that the newspaper obtained information through illegal practices. against the publisher of the tabloid newspaper Daily Mail, Associated Newspapers, concluding that they have not been able to prove that the newspaper obtained information through illegal practices.

In a typical populist move, Nigel Farage, the leader of the Reform Party, announced this midday that he is resigning as a Member of Parliament for Clacton-on-Sea, a decision that will trigger a by-election in which he has already confirmed he will stand again as a candidate. Farage justified the move by stating that he wants the voters, not the Westminster "establishment", to judge his conduct after the controversy generated in recent weeks by parliamentary investigations into his finances.

Sam Edwards is a professor of contemporary political history at Loughborough University, one of the most prestigious British research institutions, located in the heart of England, between Leicester and Nottingham. Edwards is a specialist in historical memory, commemorations, and transatlantic relations, and is one of the leading authorities on the study of how the United Kingdom and the United States have constructed the shared memory of their colonial past. A member of the Royal Historical Society, he has dedicated the last few years to researching the memory of the American Revolution.

On June 23, 1985, I saw Bruce Springsteen at the dusty Richter Stadium in Montpellier. It was the eleventh concert of the European tour of Born in the U.S.A. and some forty thousand people filled the venue and accompanied the voice of the Boss when he started with the song that gave its name to one of his most famous albums of that decade. The song, misinterpreted as a wholesale patriotic exaltation, was in reality quite the opposite: a denunciation of the way the country had abandoned a generation of its citizens. Springsteen himself complained about it, many years later (2016), in his book "Born to run: "

Politics is also the recognition of truth. After decades of silence, humiliation, and stigmatization, this Thursday the British government has officially apologized to the tens of thousands of women who, between the late 1940s and early 1970s, were forced to give up their children for adoption simply because they were unmarried.

Keir Starmer bids farewell to Downing Street by allocating more money for weapons than for fixing roads and promoting energy projects. It is the last major political act of a prime minister on the verge of leaving office, after announcing his resignation nine days ago, cornered by party colleagues who had lost confidence in the man who led them to electoral victory just two years ago.

The United Kingdom has a new messiah. One more or a real one? Or perhaps just another politician, naive enough, who believes he can change the system and not the other way around? Questions that, for now, have no answer. In any case, the man is called Andy Burnham and in all probability will become prime minister in just under three weeks, following the resignation announcement of Keir Starmer a week ago.

Europe is facing a new climatic reality. Extreme, long, and historic heatwaves are becoming increasingly frequent and are one of the most evident faces of a climate crisis that demands urgent responses. The episode of high temperatures affecting a large part of the continent this June (also in places where it was previously unthinkable) is breaking records in several countries and is the result of global warming caused by human activity and the accumulation of greenhouse gases. And it is no coincidence: Europe is the continent that is warming fastest on the planet and the impacts are already visible on health, agriculture, ecosystems, and water availability.

In 2018, this correspondent travelled to Boston (Lincolnshire), 212 kilometres north-east of London. Two years after the referendum on membership of the European Union, ARA wanted to test whether the so-called capital of Brexit regretted a decision that was proving very difficult to implement and was causing a permanent political crisis in Westminster. No, on the contrary, Boston remained proud of its stance, at least according to the testimonies I was able to obtain.

King Charles III has paid more than 34 million euros in taxes since he ascended the throne next to the death of Queen Elizabeth II, as revealed this Thursday night by Buckingham Palace, in what a spokesperson has described as "an unprecedented exercise in transparency". It is the first time the British royal household has published the monarch's personal tax bill. Since 1993, the sovereigns have voluntarily paid taxes on income and capital gains. Legally, however, they are not obliged to.

Elena Oliver Saiz is a lecturer at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and a specialist in seismic engineering. A PhD from the University of Granada, she has researched nonlinear simulation, finite elements, and energy dissipation, with complementary stays at Berkeley. She has worked as a project manager on large international projects and currently focuses her research on the seismic behavior of tall buildings with energy dissipation systems.

More than a decade of negligence, repeated errors, and ignored warnings have been reported in the devastating report on the maternity and neonatology services of two Nottingham hospitals, which was made public this Wednesday. The analysis of 2,511 cases – occurring mainly between 2012 and 2025, although some date back to 2006 – has allowed the team of independent researcher and midwife Donna Ockenden to document how hundreds of women were subjected to avoidable risks and treated with a "cruelty and brutality" that the report links to a "toxic" care culture. This is one of the most serious scandals in the history of the NHS, which thus adds another stain to a service in permanent crisis: understaffed, underfunded, and with overwhelmed waiting lists.

Who is Andy Burnham beyond the stereotype of Manchester and Mancunianism? The United Kingdom asks itself the question, as it could become a new prime minister in three weeks, after of the resignation announcement of Keir Starmer. In a gesture of acceptance of the brutality of politics, the first in functions met this Tuesday with his successor de facto outside Downing Street, as has been revealed The Times.

A new episode of intense and widespread heat is setting record highs across much of Western and Central Europe. Sustained high temperatures for several days and sleepless nights are affecting countries accustomed to heat this week—though not this early—such as France, Catalonia, Spain, and Italy, and parts of the United Kingdom, Belgium, and Germany, where it is increasingly less exceptional for the mercury to soar. The impact of the heatwave on health is high, and several states have issued meteorological alerts to warn the population of dehydration, heatstroke, and even death.

A few days ago, German researcher Jannike Wachowiak, from the think tankUK in a Changing Europe, stated in a briefing with a group of foreign correspondents in London that "the relationship between the United Kingdom and the EU remains unresolved". Ten years have passed since the referendum, six since the UK's exit from the EU became effective, and Ortega's conllevancia can also define the dynamic between the islands and Brussels. Geography, inevitably, conditions.

A mid-morning this Monday, as the acting premier, Keir Starmer, had just announced his decision to throw in the towel and leave Downing Street, the former mayor of Manchester, Andy Burnham, 56 years old, married to a Dutch citizen and with three children, arrived at Manchester Picadilly station to catch the train to London. He was carrying a bag containing a suit and, undoubtedly, many hopes. Burnham appeared surrounded by journalists, and all sorts of passers-by pointed their mobile phones at him. He was escorted by a pair of police officers; however, he was accompanied by some of his female advisors. He did not shy away from the attention, nor could he avoid the nerves. To such an extent that he declared to the BBC cameras that he was going down to London to take possession of the mayor's office. "I said as mayor; I mean as a Member of Parliament." A slip of the tongue.

A tearful and emotional Keir Starmer, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for less than two years, announced this Monday that he is stepping down in a speech of just over six minutes. After a weekend of reflection at his country residence, and having communicated his decision to King Charles III, the premier has come to the conclusion that everyone around him had already accepted, perhaps less so himself. But the pressure has finally become unbearable given the evident lack of support within the Labour parliamentary group.

The UK's most famous cat is waiting for a new owner. Larry, adopted by the Prime Minister's office and officially named chief mouse-catcher of the cabinet in February 2011, saw on Sunday that journalists, photographers, and television cameras had gathered outside the door of 10 Downing Street awaiting events. While the big animal ensured that no stranger – and even less so any rodent – crossed the threshold of the cute but uncomfortable Georgian house on the famous Whitehall alley, Keir Starmer spent the weekend at Chequers, his official country residence, just over sixty kilometers northwest of London.

Anand Menon (1965) is Professor of International Relations and European Politics at King's College London. Before the Brexit referendum, in 2015, he launched the think tankUK in a Changing Europe. Since then, he himself as director and others of his collaborators have produced thousands of pages on the impact of the decision that the British made on June 23, 2016, next Tuesday will be a decade. His approach is simple: he doesn't say what to think, he just presents the effects of Brexit.