One of the UK’s largest unions, Unite the Union, has voted to slash the affiliation fee it pays to Labour by £580,000, or 40% of its contribution to the party.

The home secretary has approved a request by London’s Metropolitan police to ban the al-Quds march, an annual pro-Palestine event that coincides with the end of Ramadan.

Spain has removed its ambassador to Israel and said that its embassy in Tel Aviv will now be led by a lower-ranked charge d’affaires, according to the official state gazette and Reuters.

More than 200 cultural figures, including musician Brian Eno, have signed an open letter to the British Museum urging it to “stop erasing Palestine and supporting genocide”.

Irish rap trio Kneecap will join an international aid convoy to Cuba next week, as the island nation faces an escalating humanitarian crisis caused by a brutal US blockade.

Several Labour MPs have been in regular contact with Zack Polanski, reportedly leading to questions from government whips about whether they could defect to the Green party. 

Black Londoners are up to 48 times more likely to be stopped and searched in some of London’s richest and whitest areas.

Allegations of sexual assault against officers and staff of London’s Metropolitan Police have tripled in the five years since Sarah Everard was raped and murdered, new figures show.

The Telegraph published a story detailing the devastation caused by US-Israeli attacks on civilian targets across Iran, but made substantial edits after a post on X expressing surprise at the directness of the reporting was shared thousands of times.