Bloodshed was foreseen by the people of Northumberland even before the Viking raiders came ashore on the Holy Island of Lindisfarne in AD 793. An ancient manuscript recalls how ‘amazing sheets of lightning and whirlwinds and fiery dragons were seen flying in the sky’, but no omen could have prepared …...Read More

Cornwall could be about to enter a new Poldark era of mining after ‘globally significant’ amounts of lithium were found in underground waters. Mining firm Cornish Lithium said the county holds some of the world’s best quality reserves of the metal, which is vital for mobile phone and electric car …...Read More

On the face of it, the transvestite ceramic artist Grayson Perry is one of the least likely people in all the world to say anything even mildly complimentary about Right-wingers. I don’t say this just because he likes to dress up in women’s clothes — although the Left, if you’ll …...Read More

A Tory MP has been ordered to apologise for breaking parliamentary rules by asking a question in the Commons that ‘sought to benefit’ a company that had given him £10,000. David Morris asked the question and sent a follow-up email to the Business Secretary relating to energy firm Aquind – …...Read More

Hospitals have been warned they must clear beds and brace themselves for a rise in coronavirus patients in the next few weeks. Covid-19 cases, hospital admissions and deaths are all on the rise, government figures revealed yesterday as more than 10 million people will soon be living under local lockdowns …...Read More

The images were stark. In one part of town, marching in columns through the leafy streets, some 250 African-American men and women — dressed head-to-toe in black combat clothes and clutching assault rifles and pump-action shotguns — were making their presence felt. A couple of miles away, so too was …...Read More

Terry Hartle, a senior vice president at the American Council on Education, a higher education trade group, called the investigation “a taxpayer-funded, politically motivated fishing expedition,” and said it was an unwarranted attack on genuine efforts to recognize and to right the wrongs of history. “It’s to their great credit …...Read More

This article was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. WASHINGTON — A colonel in the Marine Corps was named Thursday to preside as the military judge in the long-running death penalty trial of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four other prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, who are …...Read More

Mr. Schumer, now the Senate Democratic leader, went to the floor to denounce Mr. Trump. “What kind of president looks at the number of dead citizens in the country he is supposed to lead — and in attempt to glamorize himself — dismisses every American who died in a state …...Read More

Mr. DeJoy claimed he had at times “disagreed with the president publicly on that particular issue,” but he did not offer specifics on his disagreements, according to people who participated in the video conference, which was private and included dozens of secretaries of state from across the country. After the …...Read More