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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?

A photo of a ballot box

Latest Posts

Putin

International condemnation as Putin launches invasion of Ukraine: ‘The world can and must stop Putin.’

Basit Mahmood
24 February, 2022

The EU has said it is planning the harshest sanctions package ever against Russia.

Speaker of the House of Commons Lindsay Hoyle

Why the speaker is wrong to say the House of Commons isn’t the right place to call out Boris Johnson’s Islamophobia

Basit Mahmood
23 February, 2022

What message does the speakers intervention send to victims of Islamophobia?

Radical Roundup

Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 4, February 2022

Basit Mahmood
23 February, 2022

The news you didn’t seek this week…

Voting Ballot Box

Electoral Commission issues unprecedented warning about threat to its independence

Basit Mahmood
23 February, 2022

‘The Statement has no precedent in the accountability arrangements of electoral commissions in other comparable democracies, such as Canada, Australia or New Zealand’.

Right-Wing Watch

Right Wing Watch newsletter: week 3 February 2022

John Lubbock
23 February, 2022

This week we return to rural Lincolnshire to find out what Levelling Up will do for Britain’s safest Tory seat.

Boris Johnson speaking in the House of Commons

EXCLUSIVE: Two-thirds of voters want rules changed so MPs can call out lies in Parliament, poll finds

Basit Mahmood
23 February, 2022

While 66% of voters backed a change to the rules, just 19% opposed any changes.

Boris Johnson

Unions slam Boris Johnson for telling Britons to learn from ‘disciplined’ Germans

Basit Mahmood
22 February, 2022

Statutory sick pay in Germany is 50% pay for 84 weeks, while in the UK statutory sick pay is £96.35 per week for 28 weeks.

Nigel Farage presenting on GB News

‘Totally deluded’: Arron Banks and Nigel Farage blame the EU over Putin’s aggression

Basit Mahmood
22 February, 2022

‘Not so much GB News as KGB News’

Eton

EXCLUSIVE: Voters support ending the charitable status of private schools, poll finds

Basit Mahmood
22 February, 2022

44% support ending the charitable status of private schools, compared to 15% who oppose any such move.

A photo of a trade union protest with the words "The UnionDues Column" overlaid

UnionDues: Reach, information and persuasion – the three pillars of (successful) union comms

Simon Sapper
22 February, 2022

We look at the world of union communications in the company of one of its most accomplished practitioners, Kevin Slocombe.

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