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More Than a Million Pallets of Unusable Covid PPE Costing £8 Billion Have So Far Gone Up in Smoke
Billions of pounds were spent on unusable protective equipment, with priority contracts handed to associates of Conservative ministers
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Donald Trump’s Team of Yes Men and Ideologues Shows There Will be No Guardrails Around His Presidency
The President elect’s appointment of a group of fawning and ideologically blinded advisers should worry us all, writes former UK Diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall
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Tougher Rules Demanded to Tackle ‘Fake Candidates’ After YouTuber Listed as Standing in 11 Different Seats at the Same Time
YouTuber Niko Omilana’s prank highlights how few checks are made on the real identities of those who stand for election
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Abuse by Finance Firms Left Unchecked, Chancellor Reeves Warned as She’s Urged to Clean Up the City
Rachel Reeves will be leant on by City figures to deregulate the sector ahead of her keynote speech this Thursday. But transparency campaigners warn too many are falling victim to predatory finance firms
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Heart Attacks on the Rise After Conservative Reforms Reverse Progress on Tackling Silent Killer
A damning new report highlights a series of failures under the last Conservative Government
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MediaWatch: The Daily Mail Relies on Its Arch-Nemesis the ECHR for Partial Court Win
Remember this the next time you see a Mail headline lambasting human rights lawyers and the ECHR
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Lobbyists, Oligarchs and Power: The Pro-Putin Network Raising Fears of Foreign Influence in Trump’s Team
There is growing evidence of links between senior Trump appointees, associates, and Kremlin-linked entities
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Islamophobia Has Surged in the UK — Here’s How You Can Help Fight It
Islamophobia Awareness Month is a campaign which hopes that small, collective efforts can lead to large, systemic changes #IAM
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‘The UK and EU Must Stand Together to Secure Ourselves Against the Threat from Trump’
Europe must wake up to the growing security threats posed by Russia and the new Trump administration
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Five News Stories that Got Buried by Donald Trump’s Election Victory
Wondering what you’ve missed amid the noise surrounding Trump’s victory? Here are some stories you won’t have heard much about this past week
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Public Demands Starmer Resurrects Leveson Press Corruption Inquiry Amid Collapse in Trust in UK Media
The mother of late TV presenter Caroline Flack calls for Starmer to “find the courage” to restart it as exclusive new YouGov polling finds public wants reform
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The Psycho-Social-Techno Politics of ‘MAGA’ Trumps Democracy – And the Liberal Left Has No Answer
Donald Trump’s second victory in the United States is a warning sign to democracies everywhere of the centrality of emotions – and their manipulation – in the new politics of gross inequality and psychic rebellion fuelled by tech-driven alternative realities, writes Hardeep Matharu
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Privilege and Property: ‘How Reporting on Private School and Farm Taxes Reveals More About Newspaper Owners Than Anything Else’
Hysteria around Labour’s VAT on private schools and inheritance tax on farms are not the existential threats they’ve been made out to be in the press
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Donald Trump is a Catastrophe for our Climate and we Must Start Preparing for the Disasters to Come
Governments around the world need to act now to prevent the worst of what is coming our way
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Trump’s America: The Fulcrum of a Global ‘Network War’ on Democracy
The re-elected President’s backers believe democracy is finished – the fight to save it must transform it
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Genocide: An Idea for our Times
After 80 years, Polish-Jewish lawyer Raphael Lemkin’s idea is more relevant than ever
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The Government’s Final Delivery Plan ‘Should be a Watershed Moment for ME and Long COVID sufferers’
A long awaited plan for ME and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome sufferers is due to be published this winter.
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Donald Trump’s Victory Shows UK Abortion Rights Are Not as Secure as You Think
Six women were charged in the UK for ending their own pregnancy after the US overturned abortion rights in 2022. Investigations have also exposed how US lobby groups are funding UK anti-abortion organisations
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‘Democrats Need to Stop Blaming Trump’s Voters and Admit the Party Must Change’
It was Trump’s lead on the core issues that matter to voters that won him the election – a language the Democrats didn’t know how to speak, writes US-based Alexandra Hall Hall
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SmartSchoolBoy9: The Disturbing Story of How Social Media Algorithms Encouraged a Vigilante Mob
The rise of online sleuthing is leading to the ‘gamification’ of our lives at the expense of often deeply vulnerable people
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Keir Starmer Has Good Policies, He’s Just Not Communicating Them Properly
Rachael Reeves’ budget was disappointing. Not for its content, but the way it was communicated
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X-Odus: Charities and Campaigners to Abandon Musk’s Twitter After Trump Endorsement
British nonprofits set to flee the platform after Elon Musk’s campaign for Donald Trump pays off
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‘I Don’t Believe in Democracy’: Putin’s Collusion with Trump Tracked in Real Time
Some of the loudest voices in the US are starting to say the quiet part out loud, reports Chris York
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Trump’s Victory: ‘The British Left Has Been Warned of a Far-Right Future’
The UK needs a revolution in the way politics and democracy works – starting with proportional representation, writes Neal Lawson
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The ‘Hostile’ Deadline Forcing Refugees Into Destitution and Indignity on British Streets
Campaigners hope a proposed new law could bring an end to a system that puts vulnerable people into even more danger
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MediaWatch: The Sun, the Lib Dems, and the 50% Bus Fare Hike that Never Was
Transport chiefs have rejected misleading claims of a massive hike in bus fares in England, amid confusion and spin
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Kemi Badenoch and Shadow Net Zero Secretary Funded by Backers of Tufton Street Climate Science Denial Group
The Conservative party leader and several leading members of her new Shadow Cabinet have ties to the opaquely-funded group campaigning against plans to reach Net Zero
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Ecocide and Genocide: What Trump Wants in Gaza and Why Jill Stein is No Answer
Trump plans to accelerate Israel’s violence in Gaza, male violence against women and industrial violence against the earth. He must be stopped.
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‘If you Hear That Sound, You’re Probably Dead’: How Drone Attacks are Making Evacuations in Ukraine Increasingly Unsafe
Rescuers on the ground in Ukraine detail the ‘massive risks’ now involved in evacuating residents in areas under attack from Russian forces
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Kemi Badenoch Told to Face up to Conservatives’ Democratic Failings After Years of Sleaze and Rule-Breaking
The Conservative Party’s new leader has appointed a series of Shadow Cabinet ministers whose Government records were clouded in scandal
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Moldovan Dreams and Georgian Nightmares: Putin Meddles in European ‘Swing States’
US Swing states are not the only focus of Russian interference, with the Kremlin’s attempts to swing elections in Moldova and Georgia in stark relief
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‘I Will Lose My Job for Speaking Out About the Mayhem a Donald Trump Us Presidential Election Victory Will Cause – But I Have To’
A senior US insider breaks rank to detail exactly what a Donald Trump victory will mean
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Revealed: Trump Campaigns Received $45m from Tufton Street Donors
A transatlantic “web of dark money” ties UK think tank donors to Donald Trump and US Republicans
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The Climate Case for Having More Children and Why we Should Be Concerned by the UK’s Record low Fertility Rate
We are facing the ‘literally unprecedented demographic stress of a permanently ageing global population’
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Lethal Grenfell-Style Cladding Could Remain on Buildings for Another 16 Years and Cost Tens of Billions More Pounds to Remove
A damning new report exposes the scandalously slow pace of removing all the flammable cladding still wrapped around thousands of flats across the UK
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Why Some Labour MPs Fear a Kemi Badenoch led Conservative Party
The Conservative Party’s new leader has the potential to do a lot of damage, whether or not she wins the next general election
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Kemi Badenoch Uncovered: Deregulation, Small-State Capitalism and Culture War Conservatism
The new Conservative Leader combines culture war politics with a deregulation agenda that would set the country back decades, Jon Bloomfield and David Edgar report
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The Powerful Interests Fighting Jeremy Clarkson’s Countryside Culture War to Avoid Inheritance Tax
Lobby groups are accused of whipping up fears about Labour’s inheritance tax reforms despite figures suggesting the vast majority of UK farms will be unaffected
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American Carnage: The Musk-Trump Plan for Total Collapse
A systems lens suggests a quarter of GDP could evaporate on a pathway to violent civil unrest, concentration camps, and genocidal violence that would be a free gift to Putin
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Calls for Government to Go ‘Much Further’ as Voter ID Changes are put to MPs
Campaigners warn thousands of legitimate voters will still be at risk of being disenfranchised under the ‘discriminatory’ system
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Voters Shouldn’t Forget the ‘Era-Defining Impact’ of Joe Biden’s Presidency
History will show the economic and social legacy of the outgoing President to have been leagues ahead of his predecessor Donald Trump
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How aid Cuts Disproportionately Impact Women and why Israel’s Decision to ban UNRWA Will Have an ‘Unequally Cruel Impact on the Most Vulnerable’
Israel banned Gaza’s largest provider of humanitarian support on Monday in a decision UNICEF dubbed ‘a new way to kill children’
