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Russia has every reason to say Britain is party to the conflict, Ambassador Andrey Kelin has said · Russian Ambassador to the UK Andrey Kelin ©  X / The Russian Embassy in the UK · [RT] The UK has given Russia every reason to view it as a party to the Ukraine conflict, including by deploying troops on the ground, Moscow’s ambassador to London, Andrey Kelin, has said. · British involvement is deep and reflects a strategy…

Keir Starmer’s communications director has stepped down a day after the prime minister’s chief of staff resigned · FILE PHOTO. Larry the cat sits outside the front door of Number 10 in Downing Street in London, the UK. ©  Getty Images / Leon Neal · [RT] UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s director of communications, Tim Allan, has quit amid the continuing fallout linking a senior Labour Party figure to disgraced financier and…

For all the lives they ruined, the actual criminals have faced remarkably little in the way of retribution · https://www.rt.com/op-ed/authors/robert-bridge/ · https://www.rt.com/op-ed/authors/robert-bridge/ Robert Bridge is an American writer and journalist. He is the author of 'Midnight in the American Empire,' How Corporations and Their Political Servants are Destroying the American Dream. https://www.rt.com/op-ed/authors/robert-bridge/ ·…

The US Justice Department’s release of more than three million Epstein files (including 180,000 images and 2,000 videos) has blown the doors off the most protected social network of the late twentieth century. What these documents reveal is not just a catalogue of one man’s depravity. It is, as Helen Rumbelow wrote in The Times, like “taking the back off the world clock”, exposing how power actually works at the top of the Western world. And…

History teaches us that wars are not always fought with bombs, troops, or formal declarations. Some are waged quietly — through systems, policies, and narratives that reshape societies from within. So let us pose a hypothetical, not an accusation · If an adversary wanted to weaken Western democracies without firing a shot, what outcomes would signal success? · They might aim to: · normalise emergency rule, centralise decision-making beyond…

Many expected fireworks at Waitangi this year. In an election year, with the Government’s record on Treaty issues still fresh and raw, the annual commemorations looked set to be a battleground. Instead, the week turned out to be remarkably calm on the surface. And deeply fractured underneath. The real story of Waitangi 2026 wasn’t about Māori versus the Crown. It was about Māori versus Māori, and an opposition that seems incapable of getting…

An article in the UK Telegraph is entitled “I lost 3st on Mounjaro—now, I’m losing an organ”. It reports the case of a woman who took a weight loss drug and lost 20 kilograms over the course of a few months. She then developed painful gallstones, acute pancreatitis and an inflamed liver—a potentially life threatening combination. She is now scheduled to have her gallbladder surgically removed. Gallbladder surgeries hit a peak in 2024-25 in…

The chance for peace between Moscow and Kiev was lost in 2022 due to the meddling of the then-British prime minister, Andrej Babis has said · FILE PHOTO. Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson in Lviv, Ukraine. ©  Getty Images / Anadolu / Pavlo Palamarchuk · [RT] Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis has accused former British leader Boris Johnson of derailing a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine early on in the…

The NATO members have opened diplomatic missions after US President Donald Trump renewed his push to acquire the autonomous Danish territory · Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand speaks to reporters after opening a consulate in Nuuk, Greenland, February 6, 2026. ©  Christinne Muschi / The Canadian Press via AP · [RT] Canada and France have established consulates in Greenland amid a rift between the US and other NATO member…

The Hungarian prime minister has slammed Kiev for pushing a ban on Russian energy · Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Budapest, January 5, 2026. ©  Janos Kummer / Getty Images · [RT] Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has branded Ukraine an “enemy” over its demands that Hungary stop buying Russian oil and gas. · Budapest has resisted the EU’s attempts to phase out Russian energy supplies as part of sanctions…