It is the third-largest fine the communications watchdog has ever issued.

John Nicholson and Norma Turner’s joint retirement savings account was shut by Yorkshire Building Society A retired British couple who are members of a grassroots pro-Palestine organisation which had its bank account frozen have had their joint personal account closed without explanation. John Nicholson, 70, and Norma Turner, 76, who, as treasurer and chair respectively, were signatories to the Greater Manchester Friends of Palestine (GMFP) account with Virgin Money, said their account with Yorkshire Building Society (YBS) was intended as a nest egg. Continue reading...

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Hegseth wants journalists to only publish ‘explicitly authorized’ information. That is not how the free press works

In 1982, Ronald Reagan picked up the phone to Menachem Begin to tell him to end a war. There are lessons from history and we need to learn them, says Guardian international security correspondent Jason Burke