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Keir Starmer says Iran conflict ‘not our war’ as he blasts Reform chief Nigel Farage

Basit Mahmood
Today

‘Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch for wanting to ‘dive in with both feet into the war without thinking through the consequences’.

Keir Starmer in Downing Street

Green Party sets sights on targeting trade union members disillusioned with Labour

Olivia Barber
Today

Zack Polanski is set to make keynote speeches at several trade union conferences

Zack Polanski speaking at Green Party conference

Reform’s Zia Yusuf in meltdown when asked about growing number of candidate scandals

Basit Mahmood
Today

The right-wing party has lost at least 67 candidates since May 2025,

Zia Yusuf

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A placard at a climate change protest with text reading "There is no planet B"

Caroline Lucas: Why we must shift to a wellbeing economy post-pandemic

Caroline Lucas
30 March, 2021

Caroline Lucas is calling for a paradigm shift in economic policy to prioritise environment, wellbeing, equality and resilience over GDP growth

plastic bottles

Recycled rhetoric and the glaring hole in the Tories’ Environment Bill

Steve Hynd
30 March, 2021

‘This is the government’s last chance to show real leadership ahead of COP26’

Revealed: Benefit cap hurting nearly 200,000 households

Josiah Mortimer
30 March, 2021

The vast majority of households hit by the cap are families with children.

Government axes the Green Homes Grant: what’s next?

William Baker
30 March, 2021

Scrapping this grant will set us back in the battle against fuel poverty.

‘A show of force’ by police: Bristol protesters describe what happened

Anvee Bhutani
29 March, 2021

On social media protestors are asserting a different narrative, of police inciting the majority of the violence and protesters largely reacting to it.

ReJoinEU mayoral candidate: The voices of Londoners who voted Remain are ‘being ignored’

Sophia Dourou
29 March, 2021

“Brexit won the day, we’ve had Brexit but there are problems with Brexit, and trying to ignore those problems, sweep them under the carpet just isn’t working,” said Hewison.

Kenny MacAskill MP: “Why I’ve quit the SNP to join Salmond’s Alba party”

Kenny MacAskill MP
29 March, 2021

Kenny MacAskill MP is arguing that a new Scottish independence party will strengthen the case for a second referendum

Nuclear

Using nuclear weapons to fight the Culture War: that’s Far Right government

Natalie Bennett
26 March, 2021

‘Centrism, leaving things much as they are, is no longer practically possible,’ says Natalie Bennett

£10 notes pegged to a washing line

Prof Prem Sikka: Political institutions must be freed from the clutches of private money

Prem Sikka
26 March, 2021

‘We do not have a citizen-led democracy,’ says Professor Prem Sikka

Tory flag policy: A ‘cheap tactic’ to take people’s minds off Brexit, Covid and Nicola Sturgeon?

Dr David S. Smith
26 March, 2021

‘Flags bond insiders but make outsiders feel unwelcome,’ says Dr David S. Smith

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