The UK was "deemed second-rate in all categories aside from asset protection". The United States came in joint 29th, alongside Australia and St Kitts and Nevis.

A UN panel has urged the UK to renegotiate a deal handing the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, saying it "fails to guarantee" the rights of the Chagossian people.

In total, the authority said it has cost more than a staggering £508,000 between July 2024 and March 2025. Due to more ...

"The Chagos Islands have been British since 1814. Only Keir Starmer's Labour Party would negotiate a deal where we're paying to give something away," Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch said.

Mr Tuckwell said many of the Chagossian arrivals have children, and the council had a legal responsibility to find temporary ...

A new global ranking from Nomad Capitalist finds the UK and US lagging behind peers in financial freedom and personal liberty ...

The 20th Island Games being held in Orkney brings people together from the smaller isles around Britain and some distant ...

In 1965 the UK detached the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius and several Islands from the Seychelles and created the new ...

Campaigners launch judicial review to stop Government from signing away islands without consulting Chagossians ...

By 1965, they had convinced the British to violate international law by separating the Chagos Islands from the rest of its colony of Mauritius to create the “British Indian Ocean Territory.” ...