London Letter

#LondonLetter: Confidential assessments identified former Army chief JN Chaudhuri as someone who might 'conceivably' lead if the Indian system broke down

LONDON LETTER: The challenge of AI for Sikh teachings

#LondonLetter: Disappearance of foreign bureaus marks not the end of journalism, but end of journalism as an institutionally protected activity

#LondonLetter: Hameed’s 14-year sentence stands out because intelligence chiefs seldom fall so publicly or so severely

#LondonLetter: For Britain, the Afghanistan comments strike a particularly sensitive nerve because of the long-vaunted 'special relationship' with the United States

#LondonLetter: For India, the Gulf is not a distant theatre of great-power signalling. It is an extension of its economic and human geography

#LondonLetter: Against the backdrop of Greenland and wider strategic questions, Trump made public a private message from French President Emmanuel Macron

#LondonLetter: A small, almost playful gesture, by a restaurant in London captures a real shift in mood among parts of Iran’s diaspora

#LondonLetter:The United States' military action against Venezuela and the forcible removal of President Nicolás Maduro mark more than regional rupture

#LondonLetter: Unlike the UK’s pink fog, Delhi’s winter haze is not just moisture in the air, it is a complex mix of fog droplets and fine particulate matter

‘Dangerously high formalin, cyanide levels detected in mortuary'

#LondonLetter: Cambridge Word of the Year ‘parasocial’ and Oxford’s pick ‘rage bait’ together represent the digital world’s twin strategies for holding attention: comfort and conflict

#LondonLetter: The Labour government has taken difficult positions on issues such as irregular migration, but it has restored something missing for years: basic seriousness in public life

The UK has temporarily barred the export of a rare, nearly complete set of 19th-century Kangra paintings depicting the Devi Mahatmya, aiming to keep them in the country. The paintings, previously owned by an Indian collector, are valued at £296,000. British museums have until February 2026 to raise funds.

#LondonLetter: Following the dramatic resignation of board member Shumeet Banerji, the BBC’s governance crisis has escalated to the point where MPs now sense a third senior scalp

#LondonLetter: Lexicographers at Cambridge said they chose the word because it has become one of the fastest-rising concepts in public discussion

#LondonLetter: Laila Cunningham makes the remarks during a discussion of the government’s proposal to pressure certain countries to accept the return of their citizens who arrive illegally on small boats

#LondonLetter: Isambard-AI begins its first full cycle of climate modelling as monsoon concerns rise after Punjab’s floods

#LondonLetter:The broadcaster’s misleading edit of Trump’s speech has become a symbol of fading trust — not just in the BBC, but in the British institutions that once defined integrity

#LondonLetter: BBC to apologise over misleading edit of Trump speech

#LondonLetter: Two listening devices were found in Blair's suite; the episode was a reminder of how intelligence rivalry survives even between friendly governments, says Dr Paul McGarr

#LondonLetter:Verification — once the soul of the trade — has become a box-ticking afterthought

#LondonLetter:Black pudding is as much a part of white British culture as 'gulab jamuns' are for Indians

#LondonLetter: 4% of Indian households and 18% of Bangladeshi households live in overcrowded conditions, compared with just 2% of White British families

#LondonLetter: The Royal Air Force, Britain’s air arm and the world’s oldest independent air force, has long served as a model of training and discipline for Commonwealth militaries, including India’s