I was proud to lead a Westminster Hall debate on an issue of local, national and international significance: the urgent need to ban small-scale fracking operations. This was a timely moment for a debate. In my constituency of Scarborough and Whitby, Europa
Sewell Setzer was fourteen years old. For ten months, he’d been talking to a chatbot on Character.AI, a virtual companion modelled on a Game of Thrones character. When he told it he wanted to die, it asked if he “had a plan.”
How the French Revolution influenced British constitutional thought, encouraging gradual reform, stability, and democratic change without violent upheaval.
Discover ministerial accountability in UK politics: individual & collective responsibility, parliamentary scrutiny, and its role in democracy & public trust.
Explore if the Queen can intervene in a British constitutional crisis. Her powers are symbolic, limited by tradition and law in this constitutional monarchy.
President Trump launches Freedom 250, a nonpartisan initiative to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary, promising the “most spectacular birthday party.”
The Kennedy Center will now be known as the Trump-Kennedy Center, the White House confirms, marking a historic rebranding of the performing arts venue.