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The third runway has been a recurring fault line in British politics for more than two decades. It has been approved, paused, reopened to consultation, blocked by the courts on environmental grounds, reinstated, and is now in a developmental phase that the airport’s owners …

Within the same week, Defence Minister Boris Pistorius unveiled Germany’s first ever standalone military strategy, alongside a refreshed capability profile, a personnel growth plan and a redesigned reserve strategy. The package amounts to one of the most consequential rethinks of German defence policy in …

The brief flirtation with the policy revealed something important about the political and economic pressures bearing down on the housing market. Iran-war-drivenInflation/">Inflationhas pushed up the cost of living across the board.Mortgage/">Mortgagecosts are stickier than households had hoped. RentalSupply/">Supplyin many parts of England is tight, …

IntroductionFor roughly 36 hours this week the political ground in Britain shifted under Rachel Reeves' feet. After the chancellor declined, in a Commons exchange on 28 April, to dismiss the possibility of a one-year rent freeze in response to a question from Labour MP …

IntroductionThe British Army's most troubled armoured vehicle programme of the post-Cold War era has been given another chance. Defence readiness minister Luke Pollard has approved the resumption of limited acceptance trials for the Ajax fleet, after a roughly five-month pause that began in November …

Within hours of the results being published, ministers, opposition MPs and campaign groups had reopened a debate that has dogged the UK oil and gas sector since 2022. Energy Secretary Ed Miliband described it as “completely wrong for a government to stand by and …

Introduction: A troubled programme cautiously returnsThe British Army has restarted trials of its long-troubled Ajax armoured fighting vehicle, the £5.5 billion programme that has dogged UK defence procurement for the better part of a decade. After being halted in November 2025 following further reports …