A robber who threatened to stab an 11-year-old girl before stealing her electric scooter in Islington has been jailed. Adam McGeady, 32, was sentenced to three years and nine months in prison on Friday 9 December at Snaresbrook Crown Court. McGeady carried out the “terrifying” robbery on 24 September 2020 at around 6:15pm. Footage shows…

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A bill returned to the House of Commons last week would allows UK communications regulator Ofcom to force private messaging platforms to scan users’ messages for “harmful content.” It would also allow Ofcom to end the messaging services altogether. Platforms such as Whatsapp, Telegram and Signal boast end-to-end encryption (E2EE), meaning that private messages are…

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Rishi Sunak, who will be the new British new prime minister after becoming Conservative party leader on Monday, is considered a strong supporter of Israel and a friend of the UK’s Jewish community. At a Conservative Friends of Israel event in August, Sunak declared Jerusalem is “indisputably the historic capital” of Israel and that there…

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LONDON (AP) — Former Treasury chief Rishi Sunak won the race to be leader of the Conservative Party on Monday and will become Britain’s next prime minister — the third this year. The former Treasury chief will be Britain’s first leader of color, and faces the task of stabilizing the party and country at a…

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