Which party has won the most council by-elections since the May 2025 local elections?
Who’s up and who’s down?

The report was originally meant to be published in November but some of those criticised are understood to have held up publication.

Are leasehold extensions making so-called ‘affordable homes’ unaffordable?

Workers at three of the six royal palaces managed by this charity will be walking out over pension cuts

Extinction Rebellion activists will be protesting outside broadcasting sites in London, Manchester and Birmingham.

The firefighters’ union case against the government’s pension scheme was upheld by the Court of Appeal.

The right’s rhetoric in 2016 was frighteningly effective. Remainers need to be prepared and speak to the ‘left behind’, writes Green MEP Molly Scott Cato.

A young People’s Vote campaigner hits back at former Labour minister John Denham’s critique of the Remain campaign.

We can’t let Brexit derail efforts to avert catastrophic climate change, writes the Prospect union’s Sue Ferns.

This year has shown how much we need campaigning journalism.

On International Migrants Day, Owen Espley explains how Brexit will make life even worse for migrant workers.