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Politics / 8 August 2025
8 August 2025
Palestinians rush to collect humanitarian aid airdropped by parachutes into Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, August 7, 2025
Gaza / 8 August 2025
8 August 2025

Britain faces pressure to suspend arms sales to Israel following international outcry against plans to take over Gaza City

Piles of uncollected rubbish in Sparkhill, Birmingham, June 6, 2025
Bin strikes / 8 August 2025
8 August 2025
A view of the Little Cheyne Court Wind Farm amongst existing electricity pylons on the Romney Marsh in Kent
Energy / 8 August 2025
8 August 2025
The wreckage of the RAF Chinook helicopter, which crashed on the Mull of Kintyre on June 2, 1994 killing all 29 on board, including 25 top Northern Ireland security experts, June 4, 1994
Britain / 8 August 2025
8 August 2025
Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner, Chief Executive of Crisis Matt Downie, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan and Homelessness Minister Rushanara Ali during a visit to the homelessness charity Crisis, December 17, 2024
Housing / 8 August 2025
8 August 2025
Palestinians struggle to get donated food at a community kitchen in Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, Monday, Aug. 4, 2025
Gaza Genocide / 7 August 2025
7 August 2025

Gaza Humanitarian Foundation's aid distribution points are sites of ‘orchestrated killing and dehumanisation’ that must be shut down, MSF says in new report

Roz Foyer from the STUC
Workers' Rights / 7 August 2025
7 August 2025
Positive Money, Tax Justice UK, Equality Trust and Green New Deal Rising activists protest outside the Bank of England, August 7, 2025
Labour Austerity / 7 August 2025
7 August 2025
04/06/94 of the wreckage of the RAF Chinook helicopter, which crashed on the Mull of Kintyre on June 2, 1994 killing all 29 on board, including 25 top Northern Ireland security experts
Ministry of Defence / 7 August 2025
7 August 2025
A Tesco Extra store
Workers' Rights / 7 August 2025
7 August 2025
A doctor checking a patient's blood pressure
Healthcare / 7 August 2025
7 August 2025
People during a protest in Parliament Square, central London in support of Palestine Action, organised by Defend Our Juries who are campaigning to de-proscribe the organisation. A ban against Palestine Action was announced after two Voyager aircraft were damaged at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire on June 20. Picture date: Saturday July 19, 2025
Activism / 6 August 2025
6 August 2025

Defend Our Juries organiser says police forces are ‘in disarray’ over how to respond to the proscription as November judicial review causes uncertainty 

Glasgow peace garden
Scotland / 6 August 2025
6 August 2025
Workers cut up a tree which was felled by the wind on Plessey Road in Blyth, Northumberland, August 4, 2025
Weather / 6 August 2025
6 August 2025
First Minister and Labour leader in Wales, Baroness Eluned Morgan, delivers a keynote speech marking one year to the 2026 Senedd election, at the Norwegian Church in Cardiff, May 6, 2025
Wales / 6 August 2025
6 August 2025
Sellafield Nuclear Plant in Seascale, Cumbria
Britain / 6 August 2025
6 August 2025
Workers' Rights / 5 August 2025
5 August 2025
Wales TUC bilingual officer Dr Mandy James speaking at the launch of the Welsh language charter at the Eisteddfod in Wrexham
Wales / 5 August 2025
5 August 2025
PCS members continue campaign for more culture funding in Wales
Eisteddfod 2025 / 5 August 2025
5 August 2025
ambulances outside the Accident and Emergency Department of the Royal Liverpool University Hospital
Wales / 5 August 2025
5 August 2025
French authorities seen on a beach in Gravelines, France, as they prepare to fire tear gas at a group of people thought to be migrants, June 17, 2025
Britain / 5 August 2025
5 August 2025

Labour slammed for 'one in, one out' migrant return deal with France

Scotland / 5 August 2025
5 August 2025
A general view of pupils sitting an exam at Lawrence Sheriff school Rugby, Warwickshire
Education / 5 August 2025
5 August 2025
Deputy First Minister of Scotland Kate Forbes at the Scotland 2050 conference, at the Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh, June 17, 2025
Britain / 5 August 2025
5 August 2025
Eisteddfod 2025
Wales / 5 August 2025
5 August 2025
TV presenter Jay Blades, October 11, 2024
Britain / 5 August 2025
5 August 2025
Palestinian women mourn over the body of their father, Abd Rahman Al-Baba, who was killed while trying to reach aid trucks entering northern Gaza Strip through the Zikim crossing with Israel, at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, August 4, 2025
Direct Action / 4 August 2025
4 August 2025

The proscription of Palestine Action is illegitimate and unethical, say 300 Jewish people, including Sir Geoffrey Bindman KC, Mike Leigh, Michael Rosen and Gillian Slovo, in letter to Starmer

A man takes shelter from the wet weather beneath an umbrella as he walks along the promenade in Blackpool, Lancashire, August 4, 2025
Climate Emergency / 4 August 2025
4 August 2025
Reform party leader Nigel Farage and (left to right) Reform's George Finch, Rupert Matthews, Colin Sutton and Vanessa Frake during a press conference in Westminster, central London, August 4, 2025
Reform UK / 4 August 2025
4 August 2025
Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes during a tour of the new Ardgowan Distillery at Bankfoot Farm in Inverkip, June 20, 2025
Scotland / 4 August 2025
4 August 2025
British one pound coins
Britain / 4 August 2025
4 August 2025
People thought to be migrants scramble to board a small boat near Wimereux in France, July 17, 2025
Britain / 4 August 2025
4 August 2025
An anti-immigration demonstration outside the Holiday Inn Express in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, August 4, 2024
Britain / 1 August 2025
1 August 2025

Anniversary of shocking anti-immigration riots comes as anti-fascists prepare to push back against far-right demonstrations

Scotland / 1 August 2025
1 August 2025
People listening to speakers in Whitehall after a march organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, from Russell Square to Whitehall in central London, June 21, 2025
Gaza / 1 August 2025
1 August 2025
Trade Unions / 1 August 2025
1 August 2025
Supporters outside Westminster Magistrates' Court, London, where Stop the War Coalition Chair Alex Kenny and CND general secretary Sophie Bolt are due to appear charged with a public order offence during a pro-Palestinian rally in London on January 18
Britain / 31 July 2025
31 July 2025

Supporters gather outside court as Palestine protest organisers pleaded not guilty to charges

A general view of a Prison
Prisons / 31 July 2025
31 July 2025
A homeless person asleep on the street beside the entrance to Westminster underground station and in the shadows of Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament in central London, July 19, 2024
Housing / 31 July 2025
31 July 2025
Glasgow Trades Union Council
Scotland / 31 July 2025
31 July 2025
Britain / 31 July 2025
31 July 2025
Junior doctors on the picket line at Cardiff's University Hospital, January 15, 2024
Healthcare / 31 July 2025
31 July 2025
Keir Starmer and Gaza destruction
Gaza Genocide / 30 July 2025
30 July 2025

Starmer’s conditional recognition of the Palestinian statehood dismissed as ‘gesture politics’

Members of Unite union take part in a demonstration to protest at Petroineos plans to close Grangemouth oil refinery, during the Scottish Labour Party conference at the Scottish Exhibition Centre (SEC) in Glasgow, February 21, 2025
Workers' Rights / 30 July 2025
30 July 2025
A general view of staff on a NHS hospital ward at Ealing Hos
Healthcare / 30 July 2025
30 July 2025
A branch of Santander
Britain / 30 July 2025
30 July 2025
US President Donald Trump walks onto the first tee of the New Course, the second championship course at Trump International Golf Links, on the Menie Estate in Balmedie, Aberdeenshire, July 29, 2025
Scotland / 30 July 2025
30 July 2025
A Starbucks coffee shop on the Strand in London
Britain / 30 July 2025
30 July 2025
Pro-Palestine protesters take part in a demonstration outside the gates of Downing Street in Westminster, central London, ahead of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer convening an urgent Cabinet meeting as he seeks to set out a pathway to peace in Gaza. Picture date: Tuesday July 29, 2025
Britain / 29 July 2025
29 July 2025

Sir Keir Starmer announces Britain will recognise Palestinian state, unless Israel meets certain conditions, in emergency Cabinet meeting

A registration form and a stethoscope at the Temple Fortune
Healthcare / 29 July 2025
29 July 2025
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper during a plenary at the UK-France Summit, in Downing Street, London, on day three of the French President Emmanuel Macron's state visit to the UK, July 10, 2025
Britain / 29 July 2025
29 July 2025