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Musk’s tirade against Spain’s prime minister backfires

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Today

“No wonder Musk hates Sánchez.”

Elon Musk delivering a Nazi salute

From Jim Ratcliffe to the Ballot Box: How offshore billionaires still shape British politics

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Today

There’s little surprise that Ratcliffe and Farage harbour respect for each other. As well as both loathing immigration, Reform’s top donors use similar offshore arrangements, 75% of their funding comes from just three mega wealthy men with offshore ties.

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Charities pull together to highlight the link between climate issues and poverty and hunger

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Today

“Environmental change doesn’t put us all in the same boat. It just worsens the storm you’re in.”

Food bank Universal Credit

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Most young people unlikely to vote Reform poll finds, in blow to Nigel Farage

Basit Mahmood
2 July, 2025

‘Just because young people see Reform’s content doesn’t mean they’re buying into it.’

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Basit Mahmood
2 July, 2025

The bill eventually passed after a series of last-minute climbdowns that stripped back much of the controversial reform package to avoid rebellion.

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Welfare Bill: How every MP voted on the disability benefit cuts

Chris Jarvis
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Find out how your MP voted on the Welfare Bill

Liz Kendall speaking in the House of Commons
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The government’s Disability Benefit Cuts Bill is impossible to support

Chris Hinchliff
1 July, 2025

Labour MP Chris Hinchliff explains why he doesn’t support the disability benefit cuts

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Bob Vylan release statement after Glastonbury controversy

Chris Jarvis
1 July, 2025

“We are being targeted for speaking up. We are not the first. We will not be the last.”

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Poll shows public are opposed to government’s disability benefit cuts

Chris Jarvis
1 July, 2025

Opposition is almost universal across the political spectrum

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Major indie band to pull all music from Spotify over founder’s links to defence firm

Chris Jarvis
1 July, 2025

“We don’t want our music killing people”

A demonstration with a banner reading "We are all Palestine Action"
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Palestine Action: Over 600 public figures call for government not to proscribe direct action group

Chris Jarvis
1 July, 2025

Caroline Lucas, George Monbiot and Alice Oseman are among the signatories

A row of houses UK
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How puddles are blocking building the homes we need

Paul Smth
1 July, 2025

There are many barriers to building the new homes we so urgently need, but puddles are perhaps the most surprising

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The Glastonbury controversies show we need a more nuanced understanding of free speech

Patrick Hurley
1 July, 2025

The very founding document of liberal free speech principles makes the argument that free speech is context-dependent, not absolute

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