'Being called a f---ing P--- is not a new thing for me, but there's a lot more of it around in recent times than there has been over the course of the rest of my life,' Shabana Mahmood tells Emily Smith, after using the same words to rebut criticism that her policies encourage racism bit.ly/43L9GFt

Although upset by Xi Jinping's authoritarian revival, he was not distraught, writing that 'his rule will not last forever, and one can then expect another swing of the political pendulum toward a more moderate polity' www.economist.com/china/2025/0...

The Graell family, on holiday from Barcelona, had been to the National Gallery that morning and went to a Whitehall pub for lunch “Then when we wanted to go out, we couldn’t leave,” said Elisenda. “It has been interesting.” www.reuters.com/world/uk/pol...