Senior executives from some the world’s largest technology firms were meeting face to face with Barack Obama on Tuesday to press their case for a major rollback of National Security Agency surveillance. The White House is hosting the 15-strong delegation from Silicon Valley, which includes the chief executives of Apple, Yahoo and Google, less than […]
The home secretary, Theresa May, has said she wants a clampdown on the way EU citizens are permitted to come to the UK, but avoided confirming leaks coming from her department suggesting she wants a cap of 75,000 EU workers. At present the government cannot impose a limit on the number of EU citizens coming […]
Three in five adults say they drank alcohol in the past week, continuing a decline recorded by official figures over the past seven years. In 2005, 72% of men and 57% of women in Britain said they had drunk alcohol in the seven days before being interviewed, compared with 64% and 52% respectively last year, […]
The case of a British marine convicted of murdering a wounded Afghan detainee was of such great public interest that his identity had to be revealed despite a fresh assessment from government terrorism experts that he and his family could be at risk from Islamic extremists, three of the UK’s leading judges have said. Sergeant […]
Police investigating the disappearance of a young mother as she walked to her parents’ home 22 years ago have arrested two men on suspicion of her abduction and murder. West Midlands police working on the case of Nicola Payne said the men, both 49, were arrested on Tuesday morning at their homes in the Bell […]
Andrew Tyrie’s work is nearly done. The Conservative politician, who has been a key figure in attempts to clean up the banking system, stood up in the Commons last week to remind fellow MPs of the tasks that had been set for the parliamentary commission on banking standards, which he had chaired. The first was […]