This civil war on the British right is a charade – its politics are more united than ever | Jonathan Liew 14 October 2026 at 03:00

This civil war on the British right is a charade – its politics are more united than ever | Jonathan Liew

14 October 2026 at 03:00

Don’t be fooled by its bickering leaders. Their calibrated fake fighting will probably end in coalition

Kapow! In a warmly received conference speech, Kemi Badenoch turns her fire on Reform UK, describing it as “weird”, and ruling out an electoral pact. Slap! Not to be outdone, her former colleague Robert Jenrick derides Badenoch as a champion of the wealthy, which is quite rich for a guy who looks like he’s just accidentally ingested a bundle of £50 notes through his sphincter. Bosh! Reform’s Richard Tice and Restore’s Rupert Lowe clash online over the result of a council byelection in Derbyshire, in which the Greens profited from a split rightwing vote. “Vote Restore get Islamists,” Tice chides. “Vote Reform, get some random Bangladeshi bloke,” Lowe responds.

Meanwhile, the Conservatives are back. The Kemibounce is real. The Keminaissance is true. We’ve all got a severe case of the Kemirrhoids. And you may wonder why much of the media are talking about a Badenoch revival in a year where her party lost 563 councillors and 40% of its councils, remains about four points below its apparent nadir of 2024, and in which the leader herself appears incapable of doing a broadcast interview without looking like a restaurant diner who received exactly what she ordered and is inexplicably furious at it. The point is that the Conservatives are a serious party of government again, and the reason is that we all said so.

Roman fort found in Wales could prove myth of emperor’s camp is real 12 October 2026 at 03:00

Roman fort found in Wales could prove myth of emperor’s camp is real

The Guardian

By: Dalya Alberge

12 October 2026 at 03:00

Exclusive: Finds suggest account in medieval folklore of a camp near Frenni Fawr hill was rooted in reality

Magnus Maximus, the Roman emperor who ruled Britain in the fourth century, led his troops against the Picts and Scots, but a theory that he also established a military camp near Frenni Fawr hill in Wales has so far been based on folklore.

Now fourth-century coins, among other finds at a newly identified Roman fort in Pembrokeshire, suggest the medieval tale was rooted in reality, to the excitement of archaeologists.

Recruitment boss accused of being behind ‘doxxing’ campaign against RNLI and anti-racism activists 10 October 2026 at 03:00

Recruitment boss accused of being behind ‘doxxing’ campaign against RNLI and anti-racism activists

The Guardian

By: Ben Quinn Political correspondent

10 October 2026 at 03:00

Tom Watson, of Worcester, alleged to be behind Big Time Charlie X account that created so-called Traitorbase

The owner of a recruitment firm has been accused of being at the centre of a so-called “doxxing” campaign against the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), anti-racism activists and business executives who recruit black, Asian and minority ethnic workers.

Tom Watson, from Worcester, is alleged to be behind an X account calling itself “Big Time Charlie”, which was deactivated shortly after he was named by the campaign group Hope Not Hate.

‘The weirdos were taking over!’ Tate Britain relives the 1990s – in pictures 8 October 2026 at 02:00

‘The weirdos were taking over!’ Tate Britain relives the 1990s – in pictures

The Guardian

By: Guardian Staff

8 October 2026 at 02:00

A new exhibition curated by Edward Enniful looks back on the thrilling decade before smartphones, when art, music and fashion came together with a bang

The 90s: Art and Fashion review – this isn’t an exhibition, it’s a magazine spread 6 October 2026 at 05:54

The 90s: Art and Fashion review – this isn’t an exhibition, it’s a magazine spread

The Guardian

By: Jonathan Jones

6 October 2026 at 05:54

Tate Britain, London
The Young British Art of the 1990s was brash and macabre but also intelligent and emotional. This breathlessly superficial show reduces it to a stylish pose

Jake and Dinos Chapman were dismissed by some even in the 1990s as overgrown adolescents selling shock for its own sake, and yet it is their work that brings this dismally shallow show closest to a moment of depth. Their sculpture Great Deeds Against the Dead, based on a print of Napoleonic war atrocities by Goya, is a display of dismembered, bleeding nude corpses hung on a tree. It asks questions about war and art, the representation of pain, whether art can have a moral purpose. The best British art of the 1990s was like that, coming on as brash, vulgar, macabre, yet also unexpectedly intelligent and emotional. Unfortunately this show is neither.

You’d think Tate Britain would want to do justice to a decade in which these Millbank premises played a starring role, staging the Turner prize in the years when bisected cows, concrete houses and elephant dung got the nation arguing. At the start of the 1990s no one thought Britain was a leader in contemporary art. By the millennium, we were better known for new art than new novels.

on suspicion of offence under the Explosives Act of 1875 29 September 2026 at 09:39

on suspicion of offence under the Explosives Act of 1875

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By: doctornemo

29 September 2026 at 09:39

They were released subject to "stringent conditions" A farmer saw a group of masked men on a dark road and called an emergency line. British police then arrested five people "on suspicion of explosives offences and preparing an act of terrorism" near the RAF Fairford base.

Authorities evacuated nearly 100 people from the adjacent village of Whelford. Prime Minister Burnham convened COBRA. The suspects were later released on bail. United States president Trump said he thought the five intended to accomplish "big damage." Secretary of state Marco Rubio stated that a foreign actor was involved. Iran's London embassy denied involvement.

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