I don’t think I’m the only ex-Labour member who is still traumatised by 2015, or the only liberal who still has nightmares about 2016. The atmosphere was unique and grim, and looking back ...
As global temperatures rise and oceans fill with waste, people increasingly value how much attention government’s give to being environmentally friendly. In some regards, the Conservative ...
Two political developments threaten Europe: A no-deal Brexit that would certainly hurt the British economy but would also be painful on the continent, and an out-of-control deficit in Italy. Taken ...
We now know that Johnson and Hunt are the candidates Conservative MPs have decided to put to members. They have both put forward their policies, and have attended hustings and debates. We have ...
On Friday, the Guardian broke an explosive story about Johnson’s personal life that may derail his run for party leader and prime minister. They reported that he and his girlfriend Carrie ...
By the end of July the UK will have a new prime minister. They will be chosen not by the electorate but by a group of around 160,000 members of the Conservative Party. This selectorate gets to choose ...
Labour MP Stella Creasy has been calling for better maternity rights for MPs. She is not the first MP to call for better maternity rights; last year Lib Dem MP (and current leadership contender) Jo ...
The owners of a 70-story Panama City hotel tower formerly managed by President Donald Trump’s companies are accusing them of stiffing the Panamanian government.
In a legal filing Monday in ...
Take a group of random citizens, give them the facts and let thoughtful discussion unfold
As hard as it may be to believe — especially in times of government shutdowns and partisan paralysis ...
On the basis of the immediate coverage of the first Conservative leadership ballot, there were two winners and eight losers. Boris Johnson grabbed the headlines with his impressive tally of 114 ...
Labour’s current Brexit policy strikes the only balance that can possibly see them win the next election. I know that is going to be a controversial statement.
Brexit is one of the most ...
The Conservative leadership contest is entering its most intense phase. Potential leaders are being whittled down by their parliamentary colleagues before the party’s roughly 160,000 members ...
The first hustings in the Lib Dem leadership race took place in London recently. This is likely to be a very close race, with two politically capible candiates with broadly similar visions for the ...
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Noel Ghallager gave an interview with the Manchester Evening News published today. In it, he rails against the political culture that's developed over the last few years.
He explains how he ...
There has been a worrying uptick in support for far right parties across Europe in recent years. This has translated into the European parliament in the form of an influx of far right politicians. ...
On June 12, Ugandan officials from the Ministry of Health released a press statement confirming two Ebola cases. A 5-year-old boy and his grandmother, 50, tested positive for Ebola on June 10 and ...
The doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty, defined by Dicey as parliament having ‘the right to make any law whatever; and, further, that no person or body is recognised by the law of England as ...
Green Party’s vote has ballooned, but can it retain new support and stand out among pro-EU competitors?
Green political parties achieved unprecedented success across all four Home Nations ...
The recent protests by white supremacists and openly racist members of the far Right of America in Charlottesville Virginia are an aberration on civil society, interpersonal cooperation and the idea ...
Trump's policies may make America white again, but also hobbled and weakened, a nation that has squandered its greatest assets — its people and its democracy
White hatred put Donald Trump in ...
The white supremacist forces arrayed in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend — the largest gathering of its sort in at least a generation — represented a new incarnation of the ...
US President Donald Trump sparked outrage yesterday when he condemned 'many sides' for the violence in Charlottesville. The White House has since tried to clarify these comments.
When asked ...
A planned protest in Virginia by white nationalists was abandoned on Saturday after a spate of violence prompted the governor to declare a state of emergency and law enforcement officers to clear the ...
The EU’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier has urged the UK to provide more clarity over the UK’s financial contribution to the EU after Brexit, on citizen’s rights, on the Good Friday Agreement ...
Read more: No trade deal before financial settlement - Barnier
Conservation is becoming more militarised, and it is cause for serious concern. Rising rates of elephant and rhino poaching in Africa, and fears of a link between poachers and terrorists, have led to ...
"No one, even if you are a princess, is above the law"
LONDON, June 30 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The conviction of eight Emirati princesses in Belgium on human trafficking charges for ...
A comparison of recent events in the Middle East with popular revolutions that occurred in Eastern Europe in 1989-1990 reveals a variety of illuminating parallels. The fall of oppressive regimes ...
The pressure is growing to force President Trump to turn over his tax returns. The other day, for example, 200 Congressmen filed a suit in federal court, arguing that voters and lawmakers have a ...
In much of the debate surrounding President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement on climate change, some critical points have been lost.
One reality is that the agreement was ...
After Theresa May’s car-crash election campaign, there is doubt among key players in the European Union about whether the UK will be in a position to resume the Brexit talks on time. That ...
Theresa May’s election gamble has failed – but could this lead to a change in the politics of Brexit? Perhaps, but it would take political will.
When Theresa May called the election, she ...
The BBC leader’s debate was terrible. Too many leaders on stage, too few of them good. In between the incoherent shouting, there were a handful of good points being made. Unfortunately, they ...
The R&D tax relief scheme was brought in for businesses in 2000, but many are still unaware of the benefits of the scheme or how they can file a claim. This process can often seem daunting for ...
The campaign for the French presidency revealed a stark fault line on Europe. The openly pro-European Emmanuel Macron called for the EU to be strengthened while the staunchly anti-EU Marine Le Pen ...
The UK has followed the US in banning electrical devices on flights from six Muslim majority countries in the Middle East and North Africa. The ban applies to tablets, e-readers, DVD players and some ...
[ABUJA, NIGERIA] Lack of leadership is frustrating Nigeria’s 2000 target of generating 1,000 megawatts of electricity from a nuclear plant by 2017, experts say.
Nuclear scientists and ...
It was a budget blow for 2 and a half million people - the increase in national insurance for the self-employed. The tax hike was more controversial by a 2015 election manifesto pledge not to ...
There are some scary facts about climate change that we all chose to ignore. Perhaps the scariest is that, despite being the first agreement to create radical and legally binding climate change ...
Read more: The State of the Paris Agreement Post Trump
Since The Thick of It ended in 2012, we’ve been a bit stuck for political comedy. Finally we may have a solution in new YouTube comedy Spads.
The comedy follows two groups of spads in the run up ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSTTR6kDTas
Justice secretary Michael Gove, the co-convenor of the Vote Leave campaign, has set out his vision for the trading relationships the UK would have if it ...
Water levels at Lake Kariba, the world’s largest man-made reservoir, have dropped below 30%. Kariba’s water levels may drop further before rising. Possible reasons for the drop include ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUpdXXRvrw0Afshin Rattansi goes underground on anti-austerity, anti-Iraq War, Labour leadership contender Jeremy Corbyn. The MP for Islington North discusses what makes ...
