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Amerexit?
How do we protect our democracy from the Trump earthquake?
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Farage in the Frame
BROKEN DEMOCRACY?
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BREAKING
Keir Starmer Rejects Call for ‘Fairer Votes’ Despite MPs Voting in Favour of Proportional Representation
The Prime Minister is blocking reform after the House of Commons voted in favour of a more representative voting system
international justice
europe v TRUMP
lABOUR PAINS
Denying the emergency
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Bad Cops: Why the Climate Crisis Keeps Getting Worse No Matter How Many Conferences World Leaders Hold
Governments and businesses keep talking the talk on preventing a catastrophic climate breakdown, while consistently refusing to walk the walk
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Was COP29 a Cop-Out? Those Bearing the Brunt of Climate Change Say Yes
“In many ways, this COP was a deep disappointment”, those feeling the full force of catastrophic climate change tell the Byline Podcast
the crisis in British journalism
empire and extremism
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How Far-Right Billionaires are Destroying French Politics – and What the UK Must Learn
The French media have boosted the far-right National Rally party. Are the British media doing the same in the UK?
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The Orbánisation of British Politics: Farage and Braverman Headline with Hungarian Prime Minister at National Conservatism Conference
NatCon Brussels is creating a network of radical right speakers from the UK, Europe and the US which often aim to roll back reproductive and sexuality rights
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Michael Gove: The Extremist
Whether laughing at racism, or associating with the promoters of eugenics and anti-Muslim think tanks, the Communities Secretary is indicted by his own definition
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‘Rather than Blaming Capitalism, the Right Blames the Immigrant’
The significant gains made by the right across Europe in recent years haven’t appeared out of the blue, writes Simon Speakman Cordall
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Rishi Sunak’s New Far-Right Ally and the International Authoritarian Elite
Sunak’s warm welcome of the far right Italian Prime Minister exposes the increasingly authoritarian direction of his own Government, reports Adam Bienkov
Exclusive weekend investigations, more US coverage, more long reads, and weekday forums
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- In an adapted extract from his book 'Bear Necessities of Politics and Power', The Bear reflects on the historical parallels that should worry us about an alliance between the X owner and Reform leader
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Underground Russian Influence: Johnson and the Ghost Station
Turlough Conway on how a new legal case against Boris Johnson raises more questions about money laundered in London and Conservative connections to Russia.
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Prince Andrew, the Indicted Oligarch and the Luxembourg Bank
In the light of revelations that Prince Andrew was funded by a major Conservative donor and the Banque Havilland, Turlough Conway explores the connection with another major political donor Dmytro Firtash
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