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​UNITED KINGDOM, London -- The government's 2025 Budget outlines a period of steady fiscal tightening delivered in the language of cost-of-living relief, combining short-term consumer support with a long, restrained shift of the tax base toward wealth, property and higher-income households. The measures move public finances toward a primary surplus by the end of the decade while protecting investment and the NHS, even as reduced productivity expectations darken the long-term outlook.

​By Martin Foskett | Newswire | Knelstrom Media

By Martin Foskett / Newswire / Knelstrom Media

​Angela Rayner's resignation wasn't just another ministerial scalp tossed onto the Westminster bonfire. It was an earthquake dressed as a clerical error, a demolition job disguised as paperwork. A slip over stamp duty, they said, but the tremors still shake the Cabinet Office and rattle Starmer's teacups. And in her absence, two ghosts rush into the gap: Jeremy Corbyn, rattling his chains with a new party stitched from old banners, and Nigel Farage, circling with a pint in hand, ready to gut Labour's northern heartlands.

​LONDON, United Kingdom. 5 September 2025 Angela Rayner has resigned as Deputy Prime Minister, Housing Secretary, and Deputy Leader of the Labour Party following an ethics investigation into underpaid stamp duty, ending her tenure in government less than 15 months after Labour's landslide return to power.

​By Martin Foskett | Newswire | Knelstrom Media

​STANSTED, ENGLAND — 31 AUGUST 2025 A Qatari Air Force C-17 Globemaster III returned to Stansted Airport on Sunday after a suspected bird strike during its climb, abandoning a planned flight to Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar and circling over Essex before landing back without incident.

By Martin Foskett / Newswire / Knelstrom Media

​The White House tomorrow will play host to the most absurd diplomatic jamboree since the Yalta Conference, only this time it's not cigars, cognac and Roosevelt's grim smile, it's a gang of over-dressed European leaders in dark suits, marching into Trump's lair like second-hand furniture salesmen, dragging poor Zelensky behind them as a mascot of endless war. Sir Keir Starmer, freshly polished and painfully earnest, is among them, desperate to prove Britain is still relevant and avoid another Oval Office debacle like Zelensky's humiliating trip in February.

By Martin Foskett | Newswire | Knelstrom Media

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM — 15 August 2025 The Online Safety Act 2023 arrived draped in the language of protection, but its grip feels more like cautious control—a soft firewall enclosing the digital commons under the watchful eye of the state.​

At its core, the Act introduces a statutory duty of care for online platforms. Ofcom, once a regulator of broadcast frequencies and TV standards, has been elevated into a digital sheriff with sweeping powers. Platforms are compelled to anticipate, assess, and mitigate risks, including illegal content and harm to children, or face fines of up to £18 million or 10% of their global turnover, whichever is greater. Their ambition to build transparency, age assurance, and reporting systems is weighed heavily by the potential costs of non-compliance.

​It was one of those muggy, pollen-choked mornings in July, half the nation hayfevered into a stupor, the other half still convinced the internet was a threat greater than inflation. I was parked behind a crumbling Tesco Express, scrolling through the feed on my knackered old phone 

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