February 2026

By my reckoning, yesterday will be remembered as perhaps the most difficult of Sir Keir Starmer’s premiership yet, with even close allies telling me they are not sure where it will end. His admission at Prime Minister’s Questions that he knew of the friendship between Peter Mandelson and Jeffrey Epstein when he appointed him as

Documents released by the US Department of Justice reveal plan for Jeffrey Epstein to own a majority stake in Sarah Ferguson’s women’s empowerment brand after his child sex offence conviction. In 2009, Sarah Ferguson began a year-long effort to launch Mothers Army, a company and personal brand with the mission to “help amplify the voices

British nationals Lindsay and Craig Foreman have been sentenced to 10 years in prison over allegations of espionage in Iran. Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper has condemned their sentence as “completely appalling and totally unjustifiable”. “We will pursue this case relentlessly with the Iranian government until we see Craig and Lindsay Foreman safely returned to the

A weather system, named as Storm Pedro, is forecast to bring rain and snow to Britain today and tomorrow – but “much milder” conditions are expected for the weekend. The naming comes from Meteo France, the equivalent to the Met Office in France, where the storm is expected to have a bigger impact. Despite the