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

Chris Jarvis
19 December, 2025 (3 days ago)

Who’s up and who’s down?

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Latest Posts

Covid girl in mask

Why government should not have removed face mask rules

Josh Abey
22 July, 2021

Businesses and workers have been left to bear the responsibility for preventing a major public health and economic setback.

Food

New map shows parts of UK where millions struggle to access food

Lucy Skoulding
22 July, 2021

In one local authority 14 percent of people are classed as hungry and 30 percent are struggling to access food

Migrants crossing the Channel

Behind last week’s media hype over migrant Channel crossings

Raoul Walawalker
22 July, 2021

Priti Patel last week pushed the harshest law yet over right to claim asylum as right-wing press agitated once again over Channel crossings

A photo of a London underground train run by TFL with passengers wearing masks

EXCLUSIVE: TfL unable to issue fines for mask dodgers after Johnson strips its powers

Josiah Mortimer
21 July, 2021

London Assembly Labour’s travel spokesperson expresses concern over mask-wearing, now that Johnson has deprived TfL of sanction powers.

Ministers have launched an assault on our already-ailing democracy

Zack Polanski
21 July, 2021

From mandatory ID to unjust changes to the voting system, the government is rolling back our rights.

Radical Roundup

Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 3, July 2021

Josiah Mortimer
21 July, 2021

The news you didn’t see this week…

Revealed: Disabled women face shocking levels of workplace harassment – TUC

Alice Moss
21 July, 2021

The government’s sexual harassment consultation must introduce a duty on employers to take steps to prevent sexual harassment, Alice Moss writes

Labour tells government to ‘get a grip’ over mixed messages on Covid isolation

Josiah Mortimer
20 July, 2021

Ministers have been going around saying the public do not need to isolate when, um, told to isolate by the NHS Covid-19 app.

Asylum seekers in accommodation at Napier Barracks

DAMNING report from HM Prisons Inspector finds ‘shambolic’ outsourcing failings

LFF Reporter
20 July, 2021

Priti Patel’s department didn’t even know the location of all its short-term holding facilities for refugees.

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

UnionDues: ‘Industry without art is brutality’ – meeting the Artists Union of England

Simon Sapper
20 July, 2021

Many of their members got no support from the coronavirus income protection schemes, Simon Sapper writes.

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