Month: December 2025

When a gunman murdered 35 people in Tasmania in 1996, Australia’s political leaders united to implement some of the West’s toughest gun laws. Nearly three decades later, after 15 people were killed at a Jewish festival at Bondi Beach, consensus is more elusive.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s call for tighter gun controls is meeting resistance from ascendant right-wing populists and some mainstream conservatives, revealing a more polarised landscape that contrasts with Australia’s response to…

As the windows rattled from distant explosions, British tourist Brian* sat sleepless in a dim hotel room in Thailand’s Trat province, waiting out a curfew he had not known existed.
With artillery ringing out from across the border with Cambodia, his dreams of reaching the island of Koh Kood seemed to dissolve into the darkness.
“The police said the road was closed and I’d have to find accommodation overnight,” Brian told This Week in Asia, offering only his first name. “I heard explosions all…

The UK government has confirmed that it intends to stick with a two-year timetable to implement the terms of the Employment Rights Act (ERA) into law.

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has rejected calls from a consumer rights watchdog for a review of legal protection frameworks around insurance companies and how they operate.

The UK government has published secondary legislation that will signal a “significant shift” in the telecoms infrastructure market and the respective rights of telecom operators and landowners when it comes into force in April 2026, an expert has said.

The UK construction sector in 2025 is undergoing its most significant transformation in decades.

More than a year after former South Korean president Yoon Suk-yeol’s failed attempt to impose martial law, the country’s top court has announced changes to how politically explosive cases are handled, as public anger over delays and alleged bias continues to mount.
The Supreme Court said it would revamp procedures for high-stakes national security trials, including cases stemming from Yoon’s December 2024 martial law bid, in what it described as an effort to ensure swift and fair proceedings and…

The Employment Rights Bill (ERB) is now the Employment Rights Act (ERA), and will introduce the biggest changes to employment law in England, Scotland and Wales in a generation.

Social media giant X has been hit with a €120 million fine after the European Commission ruled it had breached transparency rules around its blue checkmark.

A recent decision by the UK’s Pensions Ombudsman has found that disclaimers in benefit statements will not absolve a scheme administrator of responsibility, where explicit reassurances are later provided to a member.