Dominic Raab launches defence of 'chaotic' Afghanistan evacuation after whistleblower's damning claims

Ian Evatt says he does not take the support and backing he receives from Bolton Wanderers chairman Sharon Brittan for granted and aims to repay the faith shown in him with performances and promotions.

A member of the British Royal Family has tested positive for COVID-19.

Afghanistan’s Pashto.The work near central Skanderbeg Square showed a map of Albania composed of many sections, in a reference to Afghanistan’s multiethnic character, and an Afghan man working.“This is one of the ways that we want to raise the voices of our (colleagues) who are taken hostage back home in Afghanistan,” said Omaid Sharifi, co-founder of Artlords.Most of their works in Afghanistan were destroyed by the Taliban, according to Sharifi, who called on “the people of the world (not to)

Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service remains unprepared to respond effectively to a terrorist attack, four years after the Arena bombing, says a new report.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticIn the most outlandish scene in “The King’s Man” — if not the strangest scene of the year — Orlando Oxford (Ralph Fiennes), a sneaky aristocrat who will go on to form the first British secret-service agency (and is already acting like a rogue spy), shows up for a meeting with Grigori Rasputin, the fevered mystic and demonic holy man of Imperial Russia, played by Rhys Ifans as if he were starring in a historical thriller directed by Mel Brooks.It’s the eve of

The scale of the damage caused by Storm Arwen was some of the worst the UK’s power networks have experienced in 25 years, bringing down power lines and disrupting power supplies to thousands of homes.

Dominic Raab has been forced to backtrack after incorrectly stating the number of people in hospital with Omicron TWICE during a disastrous series of interviews.

Alissa Simon Film CriticA Czech woman married into a working-class Afghan family provides a nuanced perspective on life in Kabul in the interregnum between Taliban rule in the animated drama “My Sunny Maad,” from director Michaela Pavlátová. Based on a novel by the Czech investigative journalist Petra Procházková, it sensitively portrays the complex environment of Kabul in the second decade of the 21st century.

David Benedict Like all historical plays, James Graham’s latest, now playing at the Young Vic in London, is as much about the time in which it’s written as the time depicted. His version of the 2015 documentary “Best of Enemies” stages 1968’s legendarily vicious TV debates between the foremost public intellectuals of the day: left-wing novelist and screenwriter Gore Vidal and arch-conservative William F.

Caroline Framke Chief TV CriticAnyone even vaguely familiar with British history will be familiar with that of Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII’s second and most notorious wife. Even now, centuries after her decapitation, she remains a uniquely enigmatic figure: a canny woman who so charmed a king that he threw away generations of tradition to divorce his wife and reject the church to be with her.

The stand-up comic Alex Edelman is not ordinarily known for cutting-edge material or political satire — his go-to joke about Brexit, he admits, was to redub it “The Great British Break-Off.”Instead, he’s an observational comic with an absurdist streak in the vein of Mike Birbiglia (who serves as a presenter of his new show).

It's been the most extraordinary six months for Riley Davies, the Brighton native who has gone from obscurity to notching three UK Top 10 singles in quick succession under the moniker of ArrDee.

Naman Ramachandran Aleem Khan’s directorial debut “After Love” dominated the British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs) with six wins. The film, in which a recently widowed woman comes to terms with a shocking secret about her husband’s life won the award for Best British Independent Film, presented by Kate Beckinsale.