Rachel Reeves has delivered another tax-raising Budget and has been unusually clear about the headline. Taxes are going up and many people will feel it. At the same time, she talks about “ordinary people” and “broadest shoulders”, about frozen rail fares and cheaper fuel, and about a big cut in child poverty. The picture that… Read More »Rachel Reeves’ Tax-Raising Budget And The Reality Behind The Promises

Talks to let UK companies plug into the European Union’s huge new defense loan scheme have fallen apart after a dispute over money. The deal would have opened the door for British arms makers to tap into a €150 billion (about $170 billion) pool of… Read More »UK–EU Defense Loan Talks Collapse: Why It Matters Far Beyond Europe

A brand new party was supposed to give the British left a fresh start. Instead, its first big weekend looked more like a family argument held in public. From the United States, it feels a bit like watching a pilot for a political drama where… Read More »Zarah Sultana, Jeremy Corbyn, And The Stormy Birth Of “Your Party”

What’s being alleged According to reporting first broken by The Washington Post and echoed by several outlets, here’s the core allegation: Those strikes are part of a broader series of U.S. air and drone attacks on alleged drug-running boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific—roughly… Read More »GOP senators to join Democrats in investigating Pete Hegseth

British finance debates often feel like a clash between spreadsheets and stagecraft. Rachel Reeves’ latest row sits exactly in that space. On one side, a letter from the UK’s fiscal watchdog says the public finances looked a little better than feared. On the other, the… Read More »UK’s Reeves painted bleak economic picture

A trip from the UK to Portugal feels very simple at first glance. You book a flight, you grab your passport, and you go. Then you remember passports, Brexit rules, roaming charges, ferries, green cards, and some mysterious future thing called ETIAS. Suddenly the easy… Read More »Planning A Trip To Portugal From The UK: A Calm, Clear Guide

Public Health England sat in an interesting spot.It was inside government but supposed to think a little like an outsider.Its job was to protect and improve health, and to narrow the gaps between richer and poorer communities in England. For several years it was the… Read More »Public Health England: The Agency That Came And Went

In 1976, two friends in California built a simple computer board and sold it for $666.66. It was called the Apple I. Only about 200 were made, and each one was hand-built. For many people, it looked like a very basic desktop setup. You could… Read More »Apple I: The Little Board That Launched Apple

The New Golden Age of Indoor Green Walk into almost any home now and a pattern shows up. A trailing pothos over the fridge. A fiddle leaf fig trying its best by the window. A little army of succulents on a shelf that gets exactly… Read More »Houseplant Craze: How We All Ended Up Living In Tiny Jungles

Copper Canyon daisy is one of those plants that quietly minds its own business, shrugs off heat and drought, and still manages to keep deer at arm’s length. Literally. You get mounds of golden flowers; the deer get a nose full of pungent foliage and… Read More »Copper Canyon Daisy: A Tough Little Shrub That Tells Deer “No”