Politics

Published: 17 November 2025 Monday. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Tensions between Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and former President Donald Trump have intensified in recent weeks, centring on Greene’s insistence that all files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein be released to the public. The dispute has made headlines across the United States and has drawn attention to a broader debate over transparency, accountability, and...

Published: 17 November 2025 Monday. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online The early hours of Sunday brought an unusual stillness to Crowborough, a usually quiet East Sussex town better known for its proximity to the Ashdown Forest and its calm, small-town life. But that calm shifted as hundreds of residents gathered to voice their objections to a central government proposal that has drawn sharp attention across the region....

Published: 17 November 2025 Monday. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is set to announce one of the most extensive overhauls of the United Kingdom’s asylum and immigration system in more than a decade, introducing fast-track deportations for illegal migrants and tightening the conditions under which refugees may build a long-term life in Britain. The reforms, expected to be laid out in a statement...

Published: 14 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. The home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, is preparing to unveil one of the most far-reaching overhauls of Britain’s migration and asylum framework in modern times, in what is set to become a defining moment of the government’s approach to tackling illegal migration. The plans, expected to be presented to MPs in a major statement on Monday, draw inspiration from...

Published: 14 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. The escalating internal conflict within Your Party, the leftwing political movement founded by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana, has entered a new and highly public phase with a dispute over hundreds of thousands of pounds in donations. What began as an administrative disagreement has grown into a bitter struggle that now threatens to overshadow the party’s founding message...

Published: 14 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. The UK government has confirmed that the upcoming BBC charter review will closely examine political appointments to the broadcaster’s board, following growing concerns that such placements have eroded public trust and threatened the corporation’s reputation for independence. Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy said the government recognises that confidence in the BBC has been shaken in recent months and that...

Published: 14 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. For years, the United Kingdom has championed the F-35B Lightning II as the backbone of its carrier strike capability, a fighter designed to anchor the nation’s maritime air power well into the mid-21st century. Yet the story of Britain’s F-35 programme has increasingly been overshadowed by concerns over delays, rising costs, and diminishing capability. The latest blow came...

Published: 14 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. The Ministry of Defence was aware of the dangers of relying on outdated and inappropriate data management systems long before one of the most serious information breaches in modern British history exposed the identities of nearly 24,000 Afghans and their families. That is the stark conclusion of a cross-party group of MPs, who say the Government repeatedly ignored...

Published: 14 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Indian anti-terror authorities are investigating a potential Kashmir link to last week’s devastating Red Fort blast in Delhi, even as security forces demolished the home of a prime suspect in the Himalayan territory. Officials in Jammu and Kashmir razed the residence of Umar Nabi, a Kashmiri doctor who worked at Al Falah University in Faridabad, near India’s capital,...

Published: 14 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Germany’s coalition government has reached a landmark agreement to implement a new military service plan aimed at increasing the country’s troop numbers, a decision that follows months of intense debate and negotiation among political parties. The plan, which reintroduces aspects of military service after years of voluntary enlistment, will require all 18-year-old men to fill out a questionnaire...