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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

Nigel Farage on GB News

Mainly foreign owned GB News to play the national anthem every day

Basit Mahmood
18 January, 2022

The same GB News that is largely foreign owned, with its start up cash down to two foreign investors.

The Tory government’s problems on trade just got worse

Tony Burke
17 January, 2022

‘The US snubbed them on the issue of ending tariffs on UK imported steel and aluminium’

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
17 January, 2022

A roundup of progressive news…

Gavin Williamson

Boris Johnson hands out gongs to people he sacked so he can keep skeletons in the closet

Basit Mahmood
17 January, 2022

John Whittingdale and Nick Gibb, who were also sacked from government, will also be handed knighthoods to ‘keep them quiet, its been reported.

Protest bill

Natalie Bennett: The policing bill represents the greatest attack on peaceful dissent in living memory

Natalie Bennett
17 January, 2022

‘The government is trying to take away people’s agency and power, but there’s a growing determination – and organisation – determined not to let that happen’.

Nadine Dorries

Nadine Dorries turns attention to destroying the BBC in bid to save Boris Johnson

Basit Mahmood
17 January, 2022

Dorries said that “state-run TV has had its day”.

Child poverty in the UK

Race inequality: Black children twice as likely to grow up in poverty as white children

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
16 January, 2022

As the cost-of-living crisis deepens with millions at risk of being plunged into fuel poverty, research shows a stark racial divide between children growing up in poverty.

Rees Mogg, Boris Johnson and Sajid Javid

Another Eton mess: Politicians with privileged backgrounds under fire in wake of ‘BYOB’ garden party scandal

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
16 January, 2022

Can a privileged upbringing and education actually be a handicap to effective leadership rather than an advantage?

Shut Elbit

‘Victory in Oldham’: Pro-Palestine activists celebrate closure of Elbit arms factory

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
15 January, 2022

The activists say the sale of the site is a direct result of their sustained campaigning.

Mark Spencer

Government chief whip’s ‘100% behind Boris’ Tweet sparks backlash

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
15 January, 2022

Mark Spencer is joined by Priti Patel in defending the prime minister.

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