US withdraws bombers from UK base after suspected incident.
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The United States has pulled its entire bomber fleet from RAF Fairford following a suspected terror plot and an incident involving suspicious vehicles near the base. While the White House criticized the decision to release suspects arrested at the scene, senior barristers have defended the move as legally sound. It is a sudden conclusion to a deployment that became untenable faster than it became effective.
Domestically, the government has abandoned its pursuit of judge-only trials after the proposal met enough public resistance to outweigh the pressure of an 80,000-case court backlog. In nurseries, staff will be banned from using personal phones and limited to taking one photo of a child per day, a safety measure introduced following a child abuse investigation.
Kemi Badenoch has used her first major turn as opposition leader to describe herself as a classic old-school Conservative in the mold of Margaret Thatcher. She is looking to the 1980s for inspiration; meanwhile, a newly released report on the secret history of the SAS and the IRA serves as a reminder that not everything from that decade is worth a revival.