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Which party has won the most council by-elections since the May 2025 local elections?

Chris Jarvis
19 December, 2025 (2 days ago)

Who’s up and who’s down?

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Latest Posts

GB News host Neil Oliver rinsed for most ‘useless bit of analysis’ on Ukraine

Basit Mahmood
1 March, 2022

‘Perfectly sums up the pointlessness of GBNEWS’

David Davis

Even senior Tories are warning the government that the borders bill ‘will break international law’

Basit Mahmood
1 March, 2022

The government has been warned that the new borders bill will breach international law

Kevin foster

Tory minister Kevin Foster refuses to apologise for suggesting Ukrainian refugees come to UK to pick fruit

Basit Mahmood
1 March, 2022

Despite deleting a tweet, the immigration minister has refused to apologise for his remarks.

Arms companies look to profit from Ukraine conflict

John Lubbock
28 February, 2022

UK arms company BAe Systems has seen its share price rise 21% and also reported higher profits over the past year.

A pile of newspapers with text overlaid reading "Voices on the Left"

Voices on the Left: 5 blogs from the left you need to read this week

Basit Mahmood
28 February, 2022

A roundup of progressive news…

Refugees

UK pledge to take Ukrainian refugees doesn’t go far enough and is branded shameful by Labour

Basit Mahmood
28 February, 2022

‘It has emerged that the rules exclude siblings, adult children and parents’

Graduation

Why grade-dependent student loans are a recipe for social exclusion

Alex Birch
28 February, 2022

‘It is reasonable to conclude that the government’s proposals for grade-conditional loans are deliberately discriminatory towards students from poor backgrounds.’

Roger Gale

Tory MP Sir Roger Gale slammed after calling for all Russians in Britain to be ‘sent home’

Basit Mahmood
28 February, 2022

‘Complete insanity’

Tuition fee hikes are taking their toll on students

Student finance overhaul extensively condemned for punishing poorer and marginalised students

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
27 February, 2022

‘This government parrots the language of levelling up, but these proposals are classist, ableist and racist: they target those from marginalised communities, and seek to gatekeep education.’

Ukraine crisis

‘This isn’t solidarity, it’s immoral’: Home Office under fire for providing no legal route for Ukraine refugees to travel directly to UK

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
27 February, 2022

By failing to accept visa applications from Ukrainians, the government offers no safe and legal direct entry to Britain for those fleeing danger in the war-torn country, unless they have British relatives.

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