British spy planes were deployed on 'extraordinary' month-long mission to monitor secretive Russian enclave after Putin threatened to nuke Europe

Anneliese Midgley surprises colleagues after Burnham said whips office should not be ‘something to be feared’ If Andy Burnham has been accused of being a people pleaser by his critics, the same most certainly cannot be said of his chief whip. “I’m not going to take any shit and I don’t fuck about,” said Anneliese Midgley, the Labour government’s newest head of party discipline, shedding some light on her direct approach to keeping MPs in line. Continue reading...

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Tech giant says Outlook and other services are being restored after a global outage left millions of people struggling to access emails and online systems

While Stephen Gray's reposting of an image on social media about Islam may have been 'uncouth, coarse, not nuanced', he was entitled to make the post as a political expression, a court heard.