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Police accused of ‘discriminatory’ and ‘heavy-handed’ approach towards children from Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities
COP29 was far from the dramatic turning point in the fight against catastrophic climate change that the world needs
Insular definitions of the national past overlook the very things we should take pride in
“America’s enemies will only watch with glee, as America self-destructs from within”, says former UK diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall
My Dutch friend chose to die a peaceful, painless death at the time of his choosing. Everyone else should be free to make that same choice
The treaty represents a rare victory for international law and the “rules-based order” the UK is meant to stand for
How did media outlets allow the narrative about this story to become so quickly dominated by one side?
European leaders fear Donald Trump could soon open Europe’s doors to Moscow
Millionaire landowners are using dubious statistics to campaign against the Government’s inheritance tax reforms
Senior politicians, military leaders and experts send an open letter calling on Europe and Canada to join forces in defending Ukraine from Russian aggression
The UK Government is dominated by figures from a discredited past at a time of radical global change, argues Neal Lawson
Peter Jukes in the December Print Edition of Byline Times
For the sake of Britain, Europe and humanity, it’s time for us to get back with the European team, argues Mike Galsworthy
Paul Niland explains why Trump’s talk of a ‘deal’ for peace will never work
‘I don’t fully understand why so many people would faint from horror at the thought of hearing a dog screaming in agony but have no real issue with the idea of a human doing that’
Any law to help people die is the beginning of a slippery slope for disabled people whose lives are already devalued, writes Penny Pepper in her monthly column
The election of the climate-denying President elect Donald Trump has raised the stakes at this week’s global climate summit
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
Islamophobia Awareness Month is a campaign which hopes that small, collective efforts can lead to large, systemic changes #IAM
Europe must wake up to the growing security threats posed by Russia and the new Trump administration
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
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
Governments around the world need to act now to prevent the worst of what is coming our way
After 80 years, Polish-Jewish lawyer Raphael Lemkin’s idea is more relevant than ever
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
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
Some of the loudest voices in the US are starting to say the quiet part out loud, reports Chris York
The UK needs a revolution in the way politics and democracy works – starting with proportional representation, writes Neal Lawson
Transport chiefs have rejected misleading claims of a massive hike in bus fares in England, amid confusion and spin
Trump plans to accelerate Israel’s violence in Gaza, male violence against women and industrial violence against the earth. He must be stopped.
A senior US insider breaks rank to detail exactly what a Donald Trump victory will mean
We are facing the ‘literally unprecedented demographic stress of a permanently ageing global population’
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
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
Israel banned Gaza’s largest provider of humanitarian support on Monday in a decision UNICEF dubbed ‘a new way to kill children’
Clare Short tells Keir Starmer’s Government to stand up for its principles and end Britain’s role as a “lieutenant” for the United States
Could the American people really be about to elect a man as obviously unfit for high office as Donald Trump as their next commander in chief?
Reeves’ budget only looks radical if you believe the Conservative spin that their own plans were anything other than a cynical scorched earth tactic by a desperate government that knew it was going to lose
The French intellectual’s book on October 7 and the Gaza war reveals the failure of some of Israel’s defenders to see Palestinian suffering