Ben Quinn

1 day ago | theguardian.com | Ben Quinn

Delivered without warning in a 54-word tweet, Zia Yusuf’s announcement that he was standing down as Reform UK’s chair has seemingly come out of the blue. For close watchers of Nigel Farage’s party in recent times however, the departure of the man largely credited with “professionalising” its operation ahead of last year’s general election performance and last month’s local election breakthrough is less of a shock.

3 days ago | msn.com | Ben Quinn

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3 days ago | msn.com | Ben Quinn

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3 days ago | theguardian.com | Ben Quinn

A black schoolgirl suffered mental harm and felt “physically violated” when she was strip-searched at school by police, a misconduct hearing for three officers has been told. The girl, who was 15 at the time and has been known as Child Q, was strip-searched in December 2020 at her school in Hackney, east London, while menstruating, having been wrongly accused of possessing cannabis.

4 days ago | theguardian.com | Ben Quinn

A vision of what war between the UK and another state such as Russia would look like is sketched out briefly but starkly on a page of the strategic defence review (SDR). Such a conflict could involve attacks on the armed forces in the UK and overseas, air and missile attacks on critical infrastructure, along with sabotage and efforts to manipulate information and undermine social cohesion.