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Two businessmen brothers who held opposite positions on Brexit ​at the time of the vote are both feeling disappointed 10 years on. For one new freedoms have ‌been squandered, while the other bemoans the complications to trade.

British anti-Islam activist Tommy Robinson said he was detained at Heathrow Airport on Saturday and ​had his phone seized, after a week when ‌he posted heavily online about racist and anti-immigrant riots in Northern Ireland.

As a child growing up in gloomy northern England, David Hockney noticed the sharply defined shadows in the Hollywood films of comedy duo Laurel and Hardy.

British defence minister John Healey quit on Thursday over a months-long dispute over military spending, accusing ​Prime Minister Keir Starmer of failing to commit the resources that are needed to keep the country safe from mounting threats.

After watching images of masked groups rampaging through the streets of Belfast — some targeting the homes and ​businesses of those believed to be immigrants — members of the city’s ethnic minority communities say they are afraid to leave their homes.

Staring at the burned out shell of his Belfast home, Jamie Corry said he would ​never get over the sight of watching his house go up in flames, torched by anti-migrant protesters angry at the brutal stabbing of ‌a man in Northern Ireland’s capital.

Two days of anti-immigration violence in Northern Ireland is nothing but racist ​thuggery, Britain’s minister for the province said on ‌Thursday, after police deployed water cannon to tackle rioters for a second night.

Masked men burned families out of their homes in Belfast and torched a number of vehicles in a wave of anti-immigrant violence that ​followed a knife attack by a Sudanese man.

Police in Northern Ireland appealed for calm after arresting a Sudanese man on Tuesday over a knife ‌attack that left one person in a serious condition and prompted calls online for protest.