Plans by Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government for the Royal Navy to take charge of the Channel migrant crisis are a failure before they have “even started”, a parliamentary committee has warned.
Disabled veterans have been left without accommodation after a hotel cancelled a Falklands War anniversary event to make room for alleged asylum seekers.
The British Army has been tasked with building temporary migrant camps in Britain to house up to 30,000 illegal migrants from next month.
The British government’s latest plans to tackle illegal migration have faced staunch criticism from Nigel Farage as well as Conservative MPs.
Get the jab or leave the service. That is the career advice sailors in the Royal Navy were given by the UK government on Monday.
The migrant crisis in the English Channel is continuing its record-setting pace, with nearly another 200 illegals landing on Saturday.
Boris Johnson appears to have rediscovered the concept of border control, having promised to deploy the Navy to secure the channel in a bid to boost his waning popularity.
The USS Constitution, the world’s oldest ship of any type still afloat, is ready to welcome the first female commander in its storied 224-year history.
British lawmakers delivered a report on Tuesday calling for more funding to increase the size and upgrade the capabilities of the Royal Navy.
Britain’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) has announced plans to double the number of women recruits in the military by 2030.
The role had been filled by army or airforce officers in the Afghan era, an admiral indicates where Britain thinks it will fight next.
The UK continues to strengthen bonds with allies with a rare example of “quad carrier operations” on China’s doorstep.
The UK announced new military talks with Japan just hours after China protested Britain sailing a warship through the Taiwan Strait.
A British warship sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Monday, a move that challenges Beijing’s claim to the sensitive waterway and marks a rare voyage by a non-US military vessel.
China said it was “highly irresponsible” for the U.S. and Britain to export nuclear technology. Morrison said Australia wants to boost peace.
FUJAIRAH, United Arab Emirates (AP) – The hijackers who captured a vessel off the coast of the United Arab Emirates in the Gulf of Oman departed the targeted ship on Wednesday, the British navy reported, as recorded radio traffic appeared to reveal a crew member onboard saying Iranian gunmen had stormed the asphalt tanker.
The UKMTO warned of a “potential hijack” of a ship off the coast of the United Arab Emirates in the Gulf of Oman, without elaborating.
The United Kingdom has the right to sail its latest aircraft carrier anywhere in the world international law permits and will do so, it said.
Britain’s Carrier Strike Group’s F-35 stealth jets have carried out their first counter-Islamic State combat missions from HMS Queen Elizabeth, the British Ministry of Defense said.
A Russian warship and jet interceptor fired warning shots across the path of a British warship on Wednesday afternoon, it is claimed.
Prince Andrew has been dumped as patron by almost 50 organisations amid questions over his links to deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, a Sunday newspaper report alleged.
French anger around the British reclaiming their territorial waters post-Brexit and the British response to it took a bizarre turn as a tricorn-wearing re-enactor was seen firing a flintlock musket as French fishermen prepared to blockade a British port.
The government has sent two Royal Navy gunships to monitor the situation in the waters of Jersey as some 60 French fishing vessels descended on the British Crown Dependency amidst a post-Brexit fishing dispute with France, which has threatened to cut the electricity to the English Channel island.
The carrier strike group led by HMS Queen Elizabeth set off for a two-week exercise in preparation for a 28-week deployment.
British warships billed as the “largest concentration of maritime and air power to leave the U.K. in a generation” will depart next month.
This is part of the UK’s £24bn defence spending splurge, presumably to be financed from a Magic Money Tree, called the Integrated Review.
Top Gear star Jeremy Clarkson has said “muddle-headed lefties” should stop dragging Britain’s name through the mud and highlight its dangerous and expensive crusade to stamp out the global slave trade.
The British government is deploying the Royal Navy to protect Britain’s fishing waters and preparing legislation which will empower them to board EU fishing vessels and arrest crew if they try to carry on plundering British waters illegally.
Japan will join France, and the United States in a series of land and sea drills for the first time in May next year, offering a counterweight to increased Chinese military activity in the Indo-Pacific region, the Sankei newspaper said on Sunday.
Boris Johnson’s administration may scrap EU rules which have seen shipbuilding contracts sent to yards overseas in recent years, according to reports.
A team of British sailors and Royal Marines, joined by USCG personnel have interdicted 358kg (790lbs) of cocaine in the Caribbean.
Senior British Army officers are set to introduce a Diversity and Inclusion Directorate to enforce politically correct standards among the ranks of the armed forces and will hire a team of equality specialists to carry out the woke initiative.
A BBC producer said that singing the words of the patriotic British song Rule, Britannia! is akin to neo-Nazis singing about gas chambers.
Jae Ikhera, who repeatedly vandalised a statue of Admiral Lord Nelson in Norfolk, has been allowed to walk out of court with a conditional discharge despite being convicted of two counts of criminal damage.
The majority of the British public believes that illegal immigration is a “serious” issue, as record numbers of boat migrants pour into the country after crossing the English Channel from France.
The mayor of Calais claimed that Britain has “declared maritime war” by floating the idea of sending the Royal Navy to the English Channel to prevent further waves of illegal boat migrants from reaching British shores from France.
The British government is considering adopting an Australian-style “push back” policy to deter illegal crossings of the English Channel, as nearly 4,000 boat migrants reached the UK since the start of the year.
The Royal Navy will be needed to perform returns of illegal boat migrants to France in the English Channel, said the union representing the UK Border Force.
(AP) — Britain is sending a Royal Navy ship to Beirut to help the city recover from Tuesday’s devastating port explosion.
The UK’s Royal Navy has succumbed to politically correct woke culture, reportedly banning the terms “unmanned” and “manpower” over concerns that using the phrases is “sexist”.
