Manchester completes UK’s first-of-its-kind village to support people out of homelessness
The project comes amid rising levels of homelessness in the city.
Four of the worst recent right-wing ‘polls’ and why they’re so misleading
The polls that regularly appear on the pages of the right-wing press, frequently rely on loaded questions, selective statistics and audiences already primed to agree with the publication’s editorial position.
From lockdown to legitimacy: how pandemic fringe politics pushed populism into the mainstream
The longer-term political consequences of the pandemic’s spread of fringe beliefs are visible in the evolution of Reform UK. Its anti-lockdown positioning provided Nigel Farage with a means to reconnect with disaffected voters and reassert his political relevance, much as he had done, with notable success, during the Brexit campaign.
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GB News broadcasts half of all UK stories about Muslims, study finds
Researchers warned that the overwhelmingly negative coverage of Islam and Muslims on GB News ‘potentially fuelled community tensions and contributed to civil unrest’.
Shell backs down on million pound Greenpeace lawsuit and agrees to charity donation settlement
‘This kind of stunt at sea is a serious risk to safety and life’
2024 General Election saw voters switch between parties at highest rate since 1931
Increased voter volatility has meant that this was the first UK election where four parties received over 10% of the vote,
Margaret Hodge takes on anti-corruption champion role to tackle flow of dirty money
Lammy says the government will make the UK ‘a hostile environment for the corrupt’
Nigel Farage makes sixth trip to US since being elected MP so that he can headline MAGA fundraiser
Is he ever in his constituency?
Labour should mobilise progressive majority to win future elections, new Compass report says
The think tank has warned Labour should focus on building on the progressive majority, rather than courting centre-right voters
Suella Braverman’s husband defects to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK
“I’m not defecting to Reform … This is the 21st century and not the 18th — my husband does not speak for me nor does he control my political affiliations.
The government shouldn’t pin all of its hopes for economic growth on the finance industry
Such a strategy was tried in 1970s and came to grief in the mid-1970s secondary banking crash.
Trade unions call on government to act on manifesto promise to strengthen statutory sick pay
Union leaders stress that
statutory sick pay in the UK is ‘set at one of the lowest levels in the industrialised world’
Jamal Khashoggi’s widow urges Keir Starmer to confront Saudi Crown Prince about journalist’s murder
‘Forgetting Jamal’s case does not align with the values of justice and democratic and human rights in your country.’