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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.
An senior US insider breaks rank to detail exactly what a Donald Trump victory would 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
Big tech is holding us hostage to technology in ways that are dramatically altering how we function as human beings
These technologies are removing accountability from warfare and making it harder to hold individuals or governments responsible for extrajudicial killings
‘The argument against labour rights is politically flawed, because it ignores the impact of having a large number of workers in insecure and bad jobs’
The headlines about Chris Kaba tell us more about the society and media in this country than his killing
Starmer’s Government has an opportunity to reverse years of Conservative attacks on impartiality and independence – our democracy requires it to act beyond narrow party interests, former BBC producer and journalist Patrick Howse writes
Why is the BBC giving so much coverage to a complete non-story about Labour and the Democrats, just because the Republican candidate would like them to?
An evidence-led, long-called for, but under-used programme of checks for people with a learning disability has the potential to help ease health inequalities more widely, Saba Salman reports
Americans will go to the polls in less than 20 days but the race still dominated by personality rather than growing international crises
The Health Secretary’s initiative shows that fatphobia is now one of the last acceptable forms of prejudice
A fixation with economic growth has led humanity to the brink of catastrophe, argues Tom Scott
The British press’ selective scrutiny of the new Government is letting the country down, writes Hardeep Matharu and Peter Jukes
Does the Conservative Party support or oppose the idea of hereditary peers? Most of them won’t say…
The summit, which is being hosted by Hungry’s far-right President Viktor Orbán, will take place days after the US goes to the polls.
The Prime Minister reached the milestone as his popularity plummets in the aftermath of a freebies scandal and Sue Gray’s resignation. But has it all been bad?
A Home Office report on October 10 found that nearly 40% of religiously motivated hate crimes in the UK target Muslims
A clean water coalition is calling for the new Government to enforce existing laws and comprehensively review the UK’s entire water infrastructure and will march on parliament on 3 November
The Government is making a huge bet on a technology that has never previously delivered, argues climate campaigner Alethea Warrington
When it became apparent that natural immunity would not prevent a second wave, right-wing media backed calls to remove measures and allow immunity to build up via infections