Which party has won the most council by-elections since the May 2025 local elections?
Who’s up and who’s down?

Cynical spin misleads readers about climate change in order to bash ‘green taxes’

Something has gone terribly wrong with the way the UK spends its aid budget

Turkey tacitly admitted it would rather see Kobane in ISIS hands than Kurdish ones

Is state intervention really worse than the mutilation of a single girl’s genitals?

A glimpse into the mind of a bigot, published as comment in a national newspaper

Welfare reforms are designed to divide society against itself

Rather than viewing integration policy as something to be wheeled out when terrorism strikes, we should recognise the benefits in their own right

Social rights are becoming commodities only available to the wealthy

We need to reframe the debate away from public spending to volatile tax revenues

But UK-born people are more likely to claim jobseekers’ allowance