Politics

Published: 27 February 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Election observers have raised serious concerns about secret ballot breaches during the Gorton and Denton byelection. Democracy Volunteers, an organisation founded by Dr John Ault and supported by the Conservative peer and psephologist Prof Robert Haywood, deployed four accredited election observers across the constituency. Their team visited 22 out of 45 polling stations while polls were open, spending...

Published: 27 February 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. In a historic upset, the Green party has claimed victory in the Gorton and Denton byelection, delivering a crushing blow to Keir Starmer’s Labour leadership. Hannah Spencer, a local plumber and Green party councillor, overturned Labour’s 13,000-vote majority to become the party’s first MP in northern England. The result has shocked political commentators, establishing the Greens as a...

Published: 27 February 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online The UK government is facing fresh questions over how the rapid expansion of data centres — facilities that house computing infrastructure for digital services and artificial intelligence (AI) — could affect the country’s climate and net zero emissions targets, after Energy Secretary Ed Miliband acknowledged the “inherently uncertain” nature of their environmental impact. In a letter to the...

Published: 27 February 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. The Jacinda Ardern move to Australia has stirred emotion across New Zealand and beyond. News that the former prime minister is relocating to Sydney surfaced in an unusually candid way. It happened not through an official statement, but on a festival dancefloor at 2am. Her husband, Clarke Gayford, shared the news while dressed as a giant toadstool. The...

Published: 27 February 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Spain will begin passport checks on travellers arriving in Gibraltar under the terms of a new post-Brexit agreement between the United Kingdom, the European Union and the British overseas territory, marking a significant development in border arrangements a decade after the UK’s EU departure. The draft treaty, published on Thursday, seeks to create a more fluid land border...

Published: 27 February 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online The Green Party has achieved a historic victory in the Gorton and Denton by-election, overturning a longstanding Labour majority and claiming the party’s first ever Westminster by-election win. The result represents a significant shift in British politics and a blow to the ruling Labour Party led by Sir Keir Starmer. The by-election, held on 26 February 2026, was...

Published: 27 February 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Newly released documents and correspondence from the Jeffrey Epstein case have cast fresh light on how Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite now convicted of sex trafficking, served as a key connector between Epstein and former U.S. President Bill Clinton — long before Epstein’s crimes became public. Maxwell, Epstein’s close associate and former girlfriend, was long embedded in elite...

Published: 27 February 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testified under oath before the House Oversight Committee on Thursday in a deposition related to the congressional investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell. Her remarks, delivered in a closed-door session in Chappaqua, New York, included a clear denial of personal knowledge of the criminal activities...

Published: 27 February 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online A deadly and unusual maritime incident off the northern coast of Cuba has resulted in the death of an American citizen, U.S. officials confirmed, intensifying strain between Havana and Washington. The confrontation occurred on Wednesday, 25 February 2026, when Cuban coast guard forces exchanged gunfire with occupants of a Florida-registered speedboat, killing four people and injuring six others....

Published: 27 February 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. The Clinton testimony before a Republican-led congressional committee descended into fierce political confrontation on Thursday, as former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton accused lawmakers of staging a “fishing expedition” to shield Donald Trump. Speaking during a closed-door session near her home in Chappaqua, New York, Clinton delivered a blistering opening statement. She insisted she had never met...