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Johnson v Hunt: Where do they stand?

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 ...

Whitewashing History

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 ...

Johnson dodges questions over domestic incident

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 Symonds ...

How International Students Add Billions To Economy Of The UK

According to the latest statistics and figures, international students, who flock to the UK every year, help to generate the impact of more than £25 billion to the economy. Research, which has ...

Boris Johnson supporters want no-deal Brexit and less talk of climate change – new survey of party members reveals

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 ...

Trump’s Idyllic USA: A White America or a Vibrant America?

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 ...

Stella Creasy is right to call for better maternity rights for MPs

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 ...

How worried should we be about North Korea?

In the past week tensions have ramped up between the USA and North Korea. Donald Trump is promising ‘fire and fury’ and boasting about his nuclear arsenal and North Korea is making explicit ...

Trump Companies Accused of Tax Evasion in Panama

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 an ...

The UK Democrats: A New Political Party Destined for Disaster?

At last we have a new anti-Brexit party. They call themselves The Democrats, and they have high hopes. They also have a series of potentially fatal flaws. There are a series of problems with any new ...

A deliberate fix for democracy

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 — ...

A New Generation of White Supremacists Emerges in Charlottesville

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 white ...

Rory Stewart: who is he and does he really stand a chance against Boris Johnson?

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 ...

White House seeks to clarify Trump's Charlottesville Comments

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 ...

Labour's confusing position on Brexit is the most likely to win them an election

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 divisive ...

Anna Soubry threatens to quit the Tories and form new party over hard Brexit

Anna Soubry has threatened to leave the Conservative party should the government press on with a hard Brexit in an article in the Mail on Sunday. In doing so, she has become the first Conservative MP ...

Beyond Brexit, these are the issues Conservative leadership candidates should be debating

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 vote ...

State of Emergency Declared in Charlottesville as US Far Right Protests Turn Violent

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 first Lib Dem leadership hustings in London (in full)

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 ...

Modern Journalism: The Concept of Balance

Fake Morality is Deceiving the Public During last year’s US Presidential election, Buzzfeed reported on sexual allegations about Donald Trump that they were unable to confirm, yet they published ...

Publisher of Macedonian edition of Hitler's ‘Mein Kampf’ releases book by former PM Nikola Gruevski

This story originally appeared on Meta.mk News Agency, a project of Metamorphosis Foundation. An edited version is published below as part of a content-sharing agreement. A publisher from ...

Does British Foreign Policy Really Make us a Target for Terrorist Attacks?

Manchester, London Bridge, Nice, Berlin. The list goes on. Jeremy Corbyn recently stated that the rising threat of terrorism could be directly traced to British foreign policy and intervention in the ...

How likely is Chuka Umunna to become next Lib Dem leader?

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No trade deal before financial settlement - Barnier

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 ...

Why the Conservative Leadership Contenders Have Backed Themselves Into a Corner Over Brexit

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HS2 announcement helps Carillion weather storm, while government seeks assurances

Over the last week, Carillion – the construction giant – has been in turmoil. After the company issued a profit warning, a series of influential investment funds betted against the ...

Boris Johnson's Campaign Launch Speech (in full)

Boris Johnson launched his bid to be next Conservative leader and Prime Minister on the 12th of June. The full text of Boris Johnson's capaign launch speech is below: It’s a measure of the ...

The 'Great Repeal Bill': A severely flawed risk to May's premiership

The so-called ‘Great Repeal Bill’ was published yesterday. This wide-ranging bill seeks to turn EU laws into British laws before the UK leaves the EU, thus avoiding a regulatory cliff edge and ...

Noel Gallagher rails against Brexit, anti-Brexit campaigners, Labour and milkshake throwers

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 ...

Man jailed for trying to smuggle 22 Afghans, including children, into UK

People-smuggling generated up to $6 billion in 2015 LONDON, July 13 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A British court on Thursday jailed a man for hiding 22 Afghans, including five children, inside a ...

Biggest Far Right Group in the European Parliament Formed

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. ...

Foreign 'conservation armies' in Africa may be doing more harm than good

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 ...

DRC Ebola outbreak spreads to neighboring Uganda, activating rapid preparedness response

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 ...

Emirati princesses trafficking conviction sends "strong signal" but impunity prevails: experts

"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 ...