January: ministers retreated from compulsory digital ID. September: the statutory verification framework came into force, the GOV.UK Wallet opened to certified providers, and phone age checks were announced. The infrastructure kept expanding anyway.
Vicky Richter · 11 September 2026Google has redesigned Search across its EU results to comply with the Digital Markets Act, calling the changes the biggest quality drop in the product's history. The Commission's own decision accepts that several of the affected features helped users find what they were looking for.
Vicky Richter · 11 September 2026Britain is preparing to test whether former troops from its 95,000-strong Strategic Reserve can be recalled in a crisis, at the same time as serving Army reservists are told to serve fewer days to save money.
Vicky Richter · 10 September 2026Andy Burnham rejected the Conservative plan to save at least £4bn through housing benefit reform and fund defence, saying national security cannot come "at the expense of social security". How the increased spending will be paid for remains unresolved.
Vicky Richter · 10 September 2026AfD’s rise has not proved that Germany wants Dexit. It has proved something else: ideas once pushed to the political fringe now have to be taken seriously. After Saxony-Anhalt, the argument over sovereignty, borders, the euro and Germany’s place in Europe is no longer easy for the political establishment to dismiss.
Vicky Richter · 9 September 2026Labour’s sanctions on settlement-linked businesses are being sold as a defence of the two-state solution after Israel’s E1 plans in the West Bank. But with Israeli retaliation already under way, Britain now faces a harder question: what will these measures actually achieve, and what could they cost in trade, diplomacy, security cooperation and influence?
Vicky Richter · 9 September 2026"At best 1 per cent of asylum seekers are genuine." That is the estimate of an anonymous Home Office decision-maker, not an official statistic. He told The Times he saw package claims and fabricated evidence, as UNHCR separately raised concerns about how Britain decides asylum cases.
Vicky Richter · 9 September 2026St Paul's insists the concerts will be entirely seated, and a canon will open each one by reminding ticket-holders to stay in their places. Nelson refused to leave the quarterdeck at Trafalgar. He will now be expected to sit through four years of Fabric.
Vicky Richter · 8 September 2026Demonstrators followed the coaches carrying the mega-dinghy arrivals all the way from Portsmouth to Dover overnight, and one pursuing car was pulled over on the M20. Kent Police found no offences and waved the driver on. The pursuit was the end of a weekend that brought the biggest smuggling operation yet seen on the Solent to the doorstep of the Royal Navy's home city.
Vicky Richter · 8 September 2026The Ministry of Defence has reportedly halted major war-fighting training for 3 (UK) Division until 2027 to save £30 million, around 0.01 per cent of the annual welfare budget. Deterrence depends on an adversary believing that you can and will fight. Britain appears determined to learn Russia's lesson from a spreadsheet.
Vicky Richter · 7 September 2026More than 60,000 people have been arrested in the UK for "communications offences" over the past five years, according to a report to be published this week by the civil liberties campaign group Big Brother Watch. Of those arrested, 18,510 were charged and 12,292 convicted. Fewer than one in five were ultimately convicted.
Vicky Richter · 7 September 2026Javier Milei has announced tougher sanctions on companies developing oil around the Falklands and pledged to strengthen Argentina's presence in the South Atlantic. The Great British PAC's response: the islanders have already had their say, and their answer was British. In 2013, 99.8% of those voting chose to remain a British Overseas Territory.
Vicky Richter · 4 September 2026Stories originally reported by our sister title, the Conservative Post. Join the PAC to get them first.
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