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Andy Burnham: These Dangerous, Alienating Times Call for Radical Change of Our Politics
From imposter syndrome and proportional representation, to fixing the fundamentals and the ‘incestuous’ Westminster media-political class – Labour’s Greater Manchester Mayor believes the right can be defeated at the ballot box if bold changes to connect with the public and their day-to-day lives are made now
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‘Why Fixers Who Help War Correspondents Deserve More Credit – And to Tell Their Own Stories’
The Afghan data leak has shed light on the role of interpreters and local journalists and why they deserve much better, argues Mathilda Mallinson
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Beyond Division: ‘Multicultural Nationalism’ and the White Working-Class
Labour must find a solution to the divisions being exploited by Reform UK and the Conservatives – a broader cohesive idea of our nation needs to be consciously created
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Why the ‘Lack of Loyalty’ Trope in Lord Tebbit’s Cricket Test Didn’t Work
Whatever Norman Tebbit hoped to achieve by asking Asian immigrants which cricket team they would support to determine their ‘Britishness’ has failed spectacularly, argues Shamik Das
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‘Giving the Vote to 16 Year Olds Is a Big Step Forward – Now Give It to Migrants Too’
The same arguments for extending the vote to younger people, should apply to other groups that remain disenfranchised too, argues Adam Ramsay
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British Lords Under Fire for Serving on Hong Kong Court Which Sentences Democracy Activists, While Swearing Allegiance to China-Controlled Region
EXCLUSIVE: Peers earn tens of thousands of pounds from roles as Beijing tightens its grip, imprisoning journalists and human rights campaigners
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‘The Government’s Call for Evidence on Islamophobia is a Rigged Box-Ticking Exercise’
Ministers are effectively blocking the voices of victims, while ‘soliciting those of the perpetrators’, argues the CEO of Muslim Engagement & Development, Linsay Taylor
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The New Left: Could a Jeremy Corbyn Led Party Really Break the Duopoly?
There are huge barriers to creating new parties of the left, but it just might be possible, argues Neal Lawson
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Tax-Dodging Billionaires Are Being Let off the Hook by HMRC, Warn MPs
Prosecutions of wealthy tax evaders have collapsed, with MPs warning that UK authorities are failing to keep track of those avoiding their dues
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Reform’s Darren Grimes Seeks Help From European Convention on Human Rights After Previously Calling It ‘Utterly Bent’
EXCLUSIVE: The former GB News host wants to rely on the same European laws he has campaigned against
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Labour MP Dawn Butler Says She Is Thinking of Running for London Mayor
Butler told the Byline Festival on Saturday that her party must understand that socialism is “not a dirty word”
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Nigel Farage Says He Wants to Scrap the Two-Child Benefit Cap – But There’s Something He’s Not Telling You
The Reform leader needs to be reminded whose idea it was to push hundreds of thousands of children into poverty in the first place, writes Josiah Mortimer
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‘MPs and the Media Cast Benefit-Claimants as Freeloaders – This Discrimination Is What Keeps Them Out of Work’
The media has gone on the attack after the welfare U-Turn, but they’re not telling the real story, argues Mathilda Mallinson
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First Past the Post to Be Scrapped for English Mayoral Elections in Bid to Reverse Conservative ‘Gerrymandering’
The move reverses changes made by the last Conservative Government, which was accused of seeking to “stitch up” elections in its own favour
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Compulsory Voting Is Needed to Combat ‘Disastrously Low’ UK Turnout, Report Argues
Stark turnout gaps by class, race and age are creating ‘warped incentives’ for politicians, new analysis suggests
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The Cost of Lies: Why We Identify With Deadly Misinformation
From Covid to climate change, understanding the role unevidenced conspiracy theories fulfil for individual and social identity in a shifting world can better help explain our ‘post-truth’ age
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Keir Starmer’s Government Says Elon Musk’s X AI Chatbot Endorsing Hitler Is a ‘Matter for the Company’
The Prime Minister’s spokesman dismisses calls to leave the social media platform, despite its official ‘Grok’ bot posting a series of antisemitic comments
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Worth Reduced to Work: A Disabled Person’s Experience of the Welfare Cuts Debacle
Penny Pepper explores the impact of the watered-down Welfare Bill and questions the very notion of ‘work’ as a marker of human value
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Fraud-Spotting Data Analytics and AI Could Close £6 Billion Black Hole In Government Finances
The technology has already recouped hundreds of millions of pounds and could be extended right across Government, according to a new report by the National Audit Office
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Kemi Badenoch’s Conservatives are ‘Cynically Misrepresenting’ Statistics With Plan to Ban Non-Brits From Claiming Disability Benefits
Experts suggest Conservative frontbenchers are deliberately misleading the public
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Reform UK’s ‘Children’s Book Bans’ Could Open the Floodgates for Censorship
The party that claims to champion “free speech” is now trying to crack down on books whose messages they disagree with, reports Katie Dancey-Downs
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Reform UK Tells Prospective Candidates Who Failed Vetting to Reapply Under New ‘Common Sense’ Rules
Individuals previously blocked from standing for Nigel Farage’s party have been told to reapply under new rules prioritising “freedom of expression”
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‘Progressives Must Unite Against Nigel Farage and National Populism or Reform Will Win’
Neal Lawson on the series of numbers that really matter in UK politics right now
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Patel, Braverman and Jenrick Immigration Scheme Led to Unexpected and Unregulated Influx of 1.2 Million Foreign Workers
Nearly ten times as many entered the UK under under Brexiters’ unvetted skilled worker visa scheme as arrived in small boats
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Reform’s Darren Grimes Accused of Lying After Police Deny Telling Him Not to Hold Council Surgeries for ‘Security’ Reasons
EXCLUSIVE: Local police have rejected the Reform UK deputy council leader’s claim that they advised him not to meet his constituents
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Kemi Badenoch Refuses to Sack London Conservative Leader Backing Far-Right Group Demanding Mass Deportations
Susan Hall has joined the advisory board of Rupert Lowe’s ‘Restore Britain’ group which is calling for the deportation of millions of people living legally in the UK
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Another Future Is Possible for Keir Starmer’s Government
After a difficult start to his premiership, Keir Starmer must seize the opportunity to start delivering on the kind of radical change he once promised, argues Adam Bienkov
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11 More Government Reforms the Media Hasn’t Wanted to Tell You About
You probably won’t have read much about these announcements over the past few weeks
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‘Keir Starmer Has Missed His Chance to Make a Bold Break With the Past on Foreign Policy’
The Labour Government has so far pursued a timid, unambitious, foreign policy, marked by inconsistency and in some cases moral failure, argues Alexandra Hall Hall
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Reform UK’s Darren Grimes Seems to Have Forgotten Something on his Register of Interests – and He’s Not the Only One
The former GB News host is among a series of newly-elected Reform councillors who appear to have left basic information off of their registers of interest
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Cryptocurrency Loophole Could Allow Foreign Billionaires to Secretly Bankroll UK Political Parties
Anti-corruption campaigners warn of untraceable foreign interference, as Nigel Farage’s party seeks big money crypto donations
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‘Keir Starmer Is Out of His Depth and Out of His Time’
The Prime Minister’s recent troubles expose how badly our political leaders have lost touch with the shifting demands of the modern era, argues Neal Lawson
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Public Trust in Government Collapses to Record Low as Demand for Electoral Reform Surges
New research finds record levels of support for a fairer voting system as trust in Government collapses to new lows
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Reform UK’s Zia Yusuf Accused of Politicising Council Staff With Propaganda Picture
EXCLUSIVE: Photos show council chief executive posing with Nigel Farage’s ‘DOGE’ team in image used for Reform party promo
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£2 Billion of Fraudulent Covid Loans Remains At Large With Government Accused of ‘Passivity’ in Claiming Funds
Huge sums of money have yet to be returned by businesses five years after the last Conservative Government’s Covid ‘bounce back’ loan scheme was launched
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Cambridge University Takes Own Professor to Court for Joining Pro-Palestine Protests
Protesters accuse university colleges of being “complicit in Israeli genocide” due to their investments in arms companies
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From Lawnmower Mishaps to Expenses Scandals: 10 Fresh Embarrassments for Reform UK
Nigel Farage’s newly-expanded party is already struggling with costly U-turns, police investigations and increasingly bizarre behaviour
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‘Nine Years on from Brexit: And I’ve Had Enough of London Too!’
Inspired by the insights of Matthew Goodwin and David Goodhart, Professor Ivor Oddgrin documents the terrifying change that is happening before our eyes
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‘Traditional Gender Norms Are the Exact Opposite’ of What UK Economy Needs, New Report Finds
A study shows that gender inequality is worsening financial hardship in deprived regions
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Refugee Week 2025: ‘We Cannot Leave This Global Problem Up to Our Idiotic Policymakers’
Community is key to solving the issue of immigration, argues Mathilda Mallinson
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How Negative Media Headlines About Small Boat Crossings Are Turning Brits Against All Migrants
New research finds that disproportionate coverage of the relatively low numbers crossing the English channel is turning British people against all incomers
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Non-Disabled People’s Delusions That Disability ‘Is Nothing To Do With Them’ Only Harm Disabled People
As Government cuts to disabled people’s benefits lead to more dehumanising rhetoric, Penny Pepper reminds us that disability is an embedded reality of human experience as much as it always has been
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An Island of Neighbours: Rebuilding Labour from the Ground-Up
Clementine Boucher and Luke Hurst, of the cross-party think tank Compass, share practical insights from its conference in London in May, focusing on how a ‘decade of radical renewal’ can become a reality
