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A cunning fox has managed to break into parliament and evade capture from the authorities. The mammal was...

Betelgeuse - a star 700 light-years from Earth that astronomers speculate could be set to explode in a devastating supernova - has been photographed, and the images show it is dimming and changing shape...

A letter in which Oliver Cromwell talks about loneliness would be very familiar to anyone who has had issues with their mental health, a historian has said...

When Boris Johnson said no to another referendum on Scottish independence, Alex Neil, a former health secretary in the Scottish government, called on Scots to force the PM’s hand by emulating Mahatma Gandhi... The SNP has an Anglophobia problem John Lloyd 12 February 2020 The Spectator...

Sajid Javid has resigned as Chancellor of the Exchequer (finance minister) on the day Johnson carried out a Cabinet reshuffle. He has been replaced by Rishi Sunak Cabinet reshuffle: Sajid Javid resigns as chancellor Rishi Sunak is the new Chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javid has...

Counting is continuing in the Irish general election as an exit poll puts the three main political parties tied in first preference votes. Ballot boxes from across the 39 constituencies were opened at 09:00...

A hoard of 19 gold coins from the Iron Age unearthed in Suffolk was a "really unusual" find for the area, an expert has said...

A team of volunteers have discovered a rare game piece believed to date back to one of the first Viking raids on the island of Lindisfarne some 1,200 years ago. The tiny worked...

British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab and his Japanese counterpart agreed Saturday to seek an 'ambitious, high standard' trade accord matching Japan's agreement with the European Union...

Boris Johnson's post-Brexit Britain will be a world of bridges, buses, building projects – and, he hopes, a vibrantly independent trading relationship with the rest of the globe. The Prime Minister will tomorrow...

Josh Adams hat-trick helps Wales thrash Italy By Gareth Griffiths BBC Sport Wales at Principality Stadium, Cardiff Wales 42-0 Italy Defending champions Wales started the 2020 Six Nations with a comfortable 42-0 victory over Italy in Wayne Pivac's...

An Iron Age warrior who lived 2,000 years ago has been unearthed in West Sussex, surrounded by his weapons. Builders working on 175 new homes on the outskirts of Walberton...

The UK has officially left the European Union after 47 years of membership - and more than three years after it voted to do so in a referendum...

Brexit, rather than being like a bullet in the temple, will be more of a shot in the arm to stimulate our democratic process, economic trade and international networks... The future will be bright after Brexit If ever there was a time to free ourselves from Brussels, it is now. EWAN GURR 29th...

Brexit has shown Britain is still the world's greatest democracy, with the people getting what they demanded even though many politicians hated it. But democracy is not something that could be used to describe the union Britain breaks away from in three days' time... The Brexit wrangle...

In no area in recent years has the NYT made itself more ridiculous than on the subject of the United Kingdom. Since those of us who live in the UK might be regarded as, if not experts, then at least well-informed observers, the paper’s coverage has stood out as being especially ridiculous or...

Western democracy has always been founded upon the principle of something called 'losers' consent'. In simple terms, it means that defeated parties accept the result of a legitimate...

After more than three years of delay and obstruction, Parliament has finally obeyed the referendum result of 2016 and passed the law taking us out of the European Union. Next...

A commemorative 50p coin marking the UK's departure from the EU has been unveiled by Chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javid...

The long-lost Anglo-Saxon abbey where Edgar the Peaceful was crowned as King of England in 973AD may have finally been discovered by archaeologists in Bath. The monarch...