Evie Selby

Politics UK - The Home of UK Political News • 7th December 2025

Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda sign peace deal a...

Political leaders of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda have signed a peace deal at a summit in Washington hosted by US President Donald Trump on Thursday [4th December].


The deal, which aims to end the conflict between the two nations that has been ongoing since 2022, has been branded “historic” by Trump.


The presidents of both the DR Congo and Rwanda have expressed gratitude to Trump for his role in the peace process.


However, analysts have said that the summit saw the endors...

Islington Now • 30th October 2025

Drug crime increases in St Peter’s and Canalside  - Islington Now

Reports of drug offences have increased by 50% in St Peter’s and Canalside over the last five years, according to the most recent neighbourhood police ward meeting. 


King Square Gardens, Duncan Street and Duncan Terrace have been named high priority areas for police due to increased drug use since August 2025. This means there will be a higher police presence in these locations. 


Stickers of a silver hand with a scannable QR code which leads to an online site selling cannabis have appeared...

Islington Now • 30th October 2025

Local businesses concerned about Shoplifting in Camden Passage - Islington Now

Shoplifting on Camden Passage has left local businesses feeling “violated”, with complaints that police and the council are failing to address the issue.  


Susan, who works in B’Atelyer, a womenswear boutique, said there had been a series of “massive thefts” from local shops on the passage.   


She added that the thefts left her “feeling violated, and you become paranoid.”  


Her colleague Tania said “it feels like it’s not being policed. Someone patrolling the passage would be great.”...

The Telegraph • 16th August 2025

Dozens of women murdered after police rely on ‘deeply flawed’ domestic violence tool

More than 50 women have been murdered after police relied on a “deeply flawed” screening tool that failed to identify them as high-risk, The Telegraph can reveal.For 16 years, officers and social workers have used a risk assessment called Dash – short for Domestic Abuse, Stalking and Honour-based violence – to decide which victims get urgent protection.Since Dash was introduced in 2009, women reporting abuse have been asked 27 questions by police officers and social workers to gauge the likeliho...

The Telegraph • 31st July 2025

Jess Glynne hits out at use of viral Jet2 song in US deportation video

Jess Glynne has criticised the White House for using the viral Jet2holiday meme that features her song to promote Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deportations in a “sick” video.On Tuesday evening, the White House posted a video on X which showed ICE escorting handcuffed people onto a flight, accompanied by singer-songwriter Glynne’s 2015 single Hold My Hand.The video was posted with the caption: “When ICE books you a one-way holiday to deportation. Nothing beats it!”The audio features...

The Telegraph • 1st August 2025

Pilgrimage route at risk of ruin from ‘prison camp’ style solar farm

An ancient British pilgrimage route is at risk of being blighted by a solar farm that residents have compared to a prisoner of war camp.The green energy site is proposed on St James’s Way – the English segment of the Camino Way, which leads to Santiago de Compostela in Spain and has been used for 1,000 years.Residents in the rural village of Monk Sherborne, in Hampshire, said the 216-acre solar farm and its 9ft-high security wall would make it “look like Stalag Luft III”.There have already been...

The Telegraph • 1st August 2025

Airbnb host cancelled guests ‘because they were Welsh’

Two friends have accused an Airbnb host of “xenophobia” after they were rejected for a room booking because they were Welsh.Jemma Louise Gough, 38, and Jamie Lee Watkins, 37, had been trying to book an £83 double room for one night at the property in Manchester.They were travelling to the city from Cwmbran, South Wales, to see the Australian music producer Sonny Fodera at the city’s Co-op Live Arena.In the reason for their visit, they wrote they were coming “from Wales to see the gig”. Just over...

The Telegraph • 31st July 2025

Airports in chaos after flights grounded across UK

Varsity Online • 31st July 2025

Boat race rowers in danger of sepsis and kidney failure from polluted water

Rowers on the River Thames are becoming ill each week due to poor quality of water ahead of the annual Oxford-Cambridge boat race on 13 April 2025.
Rowing clubs along the course are facing weekly medical absences, with members being informed that they are at an increased risk of sepsis, kidney failure and diarrhoea as a result of pollution.
The 196-year-old tradition of throwing the winning cox into the Thames after the event did not take place last year due to concerns over the presence of E....

The Telegraph • 30th July 2025

‘It looks like we’re missing the wedding’

Passengers were left stranded at airports across Europe on Wednesday after air traffic control failures grounded planes in Britain.Hundreds of thousands of people faced travel chaos at the start of the summer holidays after technical issues caused the closure of London’s airspace for more than an hour.Despite being resolved, the failure left travellers facing hours-long delays amid fears that disruption could last for days.Monica Clare, a 68-year-old from London, fears she will miss a wedding af...

The Telegraph • 30th July 2025

Pea farmers warn of shortages after driest spring in over 100 years

Farmers are warning of a pea shortage in supermarkets after the driest spring in a century.The National Farmers’ Union (NFU) said pea growers in Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Suffolk and East Yorkshire have experienced up to a 30 per cent drop in the number of peas that have been picked and processed this year.According to the Met Office, the UK had the warmest and sunniest spring on record in 2025, as well as its driest in over 100 years.Russell Corfield, the Commercial Director of Aylsham Growers Ltd...

The Telegraph • 29th July 2025

Couple move summer house by a metre to resolve council row

A couple were forced to move their £20,000 summer house one metre to settle a planning row with a Labour-run council.Catherine Curran and Martin Keyes, from Greenock, were told their garden house would be torn down after Inverclyde council refused to grant retrospective planning consent.Now having satisfied planning guidelines, they have renamed the summer house the “Victory Bar” as a testament to their success in the long-running battle.The couple were furious when they found out that council p...

Varsity Online • 17th February 2025

‘Childhood ended for us at nine’: the Ukrainian society on the student experience of the Russia-Ukraine war

Sitting opposite each other in a clean, quiet meeting room in the University’s Engineering Faculty, we seem a world away from any form of conflict. But, it is this separation that is one of the hardest parts, I’m told by Viktoriia, Sofiia, and Diana, three Ukrainian students here who are also committee members for Cambridge University’s Ukrainian Society.
For all three, the war with Russia has shaped their entire lives. Sisters Sofiia and Diana were born in eastern Ukraine, where fighting began...

Varsity Online • 28th January 2025

UK universities move towards ‘inclusive’ assessment formats

Top UK universities, including Oxford and Cambridge, are moving away from “traditional” exam formats in favour of more “inclusive assessments” to lessen awarding gaps.
These include open-book tests or take-home papers instead of in-person, unseen exams.
The approach was established under new Access and Participation Plans (APP) set out by the Office for Students. Universities wanting to charge full tuition fees must adopt these to show how they are assisting students from disadvantaged backgro...

Varsity Online • 13th January 2025

Cambridge law journal apologises following paper on Gaza annexation

A Cambridge University Press law journal has apologised following the publication of a paper that explored how Israel may exploit natural gas reserves in Gaza if it annexed the area.
Following significant criticism the editorial board and editors-in-chief of the Leiden Journal of International Law (LJIL) issued an apology for the article. The editors also stated that they “recognise the grounds for criticism” and “are taking steps relating to the future of this particular piece and specifically...

Varsity Online • 12th November 2024

Suella Braverman tells protesters to ‘get a life’ at Tory event

Suella Braverman told student protesters to “get a life” after her talk at the Cambridge University Conservative Association (CUCA) today (07/11).
Over 50 protesters gathered outside the Babbage Lecture Theatre to disrupt her speech, with the noise from their chants and drums being heard from inside the building.
Braverman praised the attendees for “going ahead in defiance of the mob, in defiance of cancel culture, as conservatives on campus”.
“Don’t be bowed down. Don’t be cowed by the mob a...

Varsity Online • 24th October 2024

King’s students disrupt talk from Silicon Valley CEO 

Pro-Palestinian students staged a protest outside a talk with tech entrepreneur Peter Barrett yesterday at King’s College, (23/10) accusing the College of platforming an “investor in genocide”.
The event, hosted by King’s Entrepreneurship Labs, was an “in conversation” with Barrett on “boundaries of deep tech and hard science,” who activists accused of having “direct ties to war crimes”.
Students gathered outside of the College’s Provost’s Lodge where the talk was scheduled to take place, accu...

Varsity Online • 2nd October 2024

Animal rights protest held in Cambridge City Centre

An animal rights demonstration was held outside The Guildhall in Cambridge City Centre on Sunday (08/09) to “educate the public” about the dairy industry.
The event was organised by the activist group Speciesism WTF, an organisation founded in 2023 that uses creative art installations to protest the exploitation of animals.
The installation included a line of “milked women” accompanied by an activist dressed as “the farmer” who addressed onlookers.
The protest aimed to encourage onlookers “to...

Varsity Online • 23rd August 2024

Trump survived, but can American democracy? 

The assassination attempt on former President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has been described as “the most significant operational failure” in decades for the US Secret Service, resulting in the resignation of their director. For the Republican Party, however, it looks like the almost-assassination could be spun into the most fortuitous event of their campaign so far. And for American democracy, it may well mark the beginning of its descent into ruin.
On July 13th 2024, 20...

Varsity Online • 22nd July 2024

Tour de France: The biggest race in the world. And the biggest spectacle…

As the daughter of an avid cycling fan, I’ve grown up watching Tour de France highlights on TV for as long as I can remember. The TV coverage of ‘La Grande Boucle’ is all about the race, but after seeing it live for the first time at this year’s final sprint stage in Nîmes, it became clear that watching in person is a totally different experience. I was able to get within an arm’s reach of the support staff, journalists, and even the riders themselves.
Stage 16, from Gruissan to Nîmes, was the...

Varsity Online • 27th May 2024

Robinson May Ball charges student workers ‘crazy’ £120 deposit

Student workers offered half on, half off shifts at Robinson May Ball have been asked to pay a £120 deposit to work at the event, in a move criticised by multiple employees of the event.

The ball, taking place on the 14th of June, allows students to work half of the night in order to enjoy the other half for free.

The system, used by many Cambridge balls, is supposed to ease the financial strain on attendees. However, multiple students have claimed they have been put off by the deposit require

Varsity Online • 19th May 2024

Cambridge academic confirms new notes by John Milton

Annotations in the margins of a book found in Phoenix, Arizona, have been identified as the handwriting of John Milton.

Milton’s writing was found in a copy of Raphael Holinshed’s Chronicles, a 16th-century text believed to have been a major inspiration for Milton’s masterpiece Paradise Lost.

The notes in The Chronicles are one of three known surviving books to include handwritten reading notes by Milton, and one of nine that survived from his personal library.

Dr Aaron Pratt, curator of earl

The Times • 29th April 2024

5 of the best … female TV detectives

Crime shows have long captivated viewers, ranging from the classic whodunnit to high-tension police dramas. But move aside Sherlock and Poirot — for years now, female detectives have been bursting into the genre and taking the spotlight. From Miss Marple to Sarah Lund, we’ve selected five of the greatest female detectives in television history. But which ones are your favourites? Let us know in the comments below.

Set in the Northumberland Moors and with 13 seasons to its name, ITV’s Vera is co

University of Cambridge • 22nd January 2024

Injured Cambridge students involved in 'crush' to board bus to accommodation on ski trip

Students were left in minus temperatures despite being guaranteed a seat

Injured University of Cambridge students on the 2023 Varsity Ski Trip were involved in a “crush” when boarding buses back to their accommodation despite being promised seats.

Following the Mega Après event on Thursday 7th December, the limited bus services were overwhelmed in capacity, leaving injured students unable to board in minus temperatures.

Two students with shoulder and knee injuries were told by a representativ