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The charity causes that Brexit Britain's Leave and Remain voters support

The great British public are a charitable bunch. But people do not give out their hard-earned cash equally, and they prefer certain charities. A new study I led suggests that a person’s political ...

Democracy?

The election is over and the dust has not yet settled on one of the most turbulent periods in British democratic history. In the General Election, the EU Referendum and the Snap Election we have all ...

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 ...

Grenfell Tower and Cynical Conservatism

The academic Corey Robin in his book, The Reactionary Mind, argues that ‘the right is fundamentally inspired by hostility to emancipating the lower orders’ and that there is an ‘impulse to ...

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 ...

Did Trump Get a Big Tax Refund After 2005?

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 ...

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 ...

Parliament on lockdown after man arrested by armed police outside building

Parliament was reportedly put on lockdown earlier after armed police arrested a man outside the gates. Reports suggest that the man was tasered as police shouted 'knife, knife, knife'. There ...

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 ...

For Climate Cause, Trump's Withdrawal from Paris Accord Just One Hurdle Among Many

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 ...

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 ...

How Theresa May's election disaster looks from continental Europe

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 leaves ...

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 ...

Queen's Speech delayed, as Tories 'prune' manifesto

The Queen's Speech is set to be delayed until next Monday. It is believed that the Conservatives are having trouble putting together the speech, especially while talks with the DUP are yet to be ...

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 ...

'Certainty and stability' is the new 'strong and stable', and is a sign of May's weakness

There are lots of reasons why the Conservative election campaign went wrong. A few things come immediately to mind: a botched manifesto, complacency, a lack of vision, a jingoistic approach to ...

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 ...

Corbyn has a good argument to stay on, but Labour must have that debate

Jeremy Corbyn lost Thursday’s election. You wouldn’t have guessed it from the reaction: Labour celebrated an election loss like a victory, and slightly dim-witted socialists overseas chimed in to ...

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 ...

How a hung parliament totally changes the game for Brexit

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 ...

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 ...

A hung parliament and a lot of disappointment. The 2017 General Election

We did actually have an article prepared for a hung parliament with the Conservatives as the largest party and popular vote winner. It was about their collapse, May’s humiliation and the difficult ...

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 ...

#GE2017 - General Election 2017 Live Blog

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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 ...

Who will you vote for tomorrow? Poll

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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 ...

The Politics of Morality

What’s right is right, what’s wrong is wrong. It should be that straight forward shouldn’t it? In the recent televised grilling of Jeremy Corbyn and Theresa May both leaders were presented with ...

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 ...

Green policies: How do the parties compare?

Over the last few elections, green policy has become a serious election issue. What was once a niche concern confined to a small base of largely left wing ecologists is now a popular issue across the ...

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 ...

London Bridge attack: why the terror threat level was downgraded

It’s a depressingly familiar story. Terror on the streets of London, almost two weeks after the Manchester bombing. This time, a speeding van hit pedestrians on London Bridge before three ...

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 ...

Trump leaves the Paris Agreement & what liberals can learn

Trump leaving the Paris Agreement isn’t an awfully big surprise. It formed a pillar of his election campaign, and he has the executive power to tear it up himself. We have long known that Trump ...

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 ...

Tory lead falls to 5 points as third party vote share collapses

An Ipsos MORI poll released today gives the Tories a 5 point lead over Labour, with both parties on surprisingly high shares of the popular vote. This seems to provide backing to the narrative that ...

Why The Government Shouldn't Break WhatsApp

Encryption backdoors, breaking WhatsApp and iMessage's security to let the government stop Bad Things, sounds like a reasonable idea. The British government secured the powers to do this and, ...

Craig Mackinlay, Conservative candidate for South Thanet, charged over 2015 'battle bus' election expenses

Earlier in this campaign, 22 Conservative MPs found out that they would not face charges for alleged over-spending in the 2015 General Election, after a CPS decision that there was not enough ...

Iran's Revolution In Waiting

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 ...

Nigel Farage a 'person of interest' in FBI Trump - Russia investigation

Nigel Farage has been named a ‘person of interest by the FBI in their investigation into US President Donald Trump’s links to Russian politicians and intelligence agencies, according to a report ...

Theresa May is too weak to hold her government together

There are lots of different and often contradictory reports about how the Prime Minister operates. Some say that she relies on advisors, while others say that she makes decisions unilaterally with ...

The second leaders' debate

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 were ...

Facebook's Secret Censorship Rules Protect White Men from Hate Speech But Not Black Children

In the wake of a terrorist attack in London earlier this month, a U.S. congressman wrote a Facebook post in which he called for the slaughter of "radicalized" Muslims. "Hunt them, identify them, and ...

A quick guide to UK elections

A UK election is almost unique. We have a complex and unique system, strict rules and an odd way of campaigning. If you've never experienced a UK election, this could all get a bit confusing. That's ...

Let Labour Shape an Administration that the UK Really Needs

Surveys since the election demonstrate that Theresa May is consistently losing support Following last week's Queen's Speech, as Theresa May tried to make an unholy partnership with the DUP to make a ...

Who will protect us from Mrs May and an ‘elective dictatorship’?

If the current opinion polls are to be believed the Conservative Party will comfortably win the general election and will command a huge parliamentary majority. It is therefore pertinent to once ...

Once dreaded, the Tory-DUP deal is broadly good

At the end of election night, the prospect of a DUP-Tory coalition provoked a lot of dread. The DUP was UKIP before UKIP, and has very hard lines – to put it diplomatically – on many social ...

May- Corbyn would be 'alone and naked' in Brexit negotiations

Theresa May has just finished giving a speech in Wolverhampton. The speech was largely about Brexit, and Jeremy Corbyn's supposed inability to negotiate a Brexit deal. In the speech she explained why ...

Tories and DUP agree confidence and supply deal

The Conservatives and the DUP have finally stuck a deal that will allow the Conservatives to continue to rule as a minority government. It is understood that negotiations focussed on ...

The most disappointing election in a generation

Most elections are in some way disappointing. One of the parties will inevitably run a terrible campaign, a brilliant politician will fail to get the message out, or the voters will punish someone ...

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