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New Trump Executive Order Rolls Back Climate Regulation

US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order rolling back much of former President Obama’s climate change policy. The Energy Independence Executive Order suspends more than a dozen of ...

Ivan Rogers resignation: in febrile Brexit Britain, it seems even public servants are fair game

Ivan Rogers, who has resigned as the UK’s permanent representative to the EU was known to his peers as a public servant who genuinely understood the value of the neutral pursuit of the national ...

One Day Until Article 50 - What Remainers Should do Now

One day to go. Article 50 day. Some are calling for a national holiday. Some are calling for a national day of mourning. Some are already fed up of this ungodly Brexit mess. I was at the Lib Dem ...

Theresa May's hard Brexit hinges on a dated vision of global trade

A landmark speech by Theresa May, the prime minister of the UK, setting the direction of the country for its foreseeable future appears to place Britain firmly outside of the EU. May has ...

Power Sharing in Northern Ireland Falls Apart- Direct Rule Likely

Power sharing in Northern Ireland has collapsed, after talks to form a government fell apart. The Northern Ireland office must now determine the way ahead, and a period of direct rule is ...

Fish: The Overlooked Destabilizer in the South China Sea

Forecast South China Sea tensions will rise in the long-term as China exhausts its near-shore fisheries and continues to push outward to secure further stocks. In Asia, consumption of fish will ...

Westminster attack: the questions security professionals will be asking

Londoners were well aware that the next terror attack in the UK was a matter of when, not if, as the acting deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan Police said soon after the incident at Westminster ...

Benedict Cumberbatch: The Tale of the 2016 Election - The Late Late Show

The 2016 US Presidential election was unprecedented in its bile. When Donald Trump descended that golden escalator, all normal rules no longer applied. From then, blatant racism, conspiracy and ...

Police update on Westminster terror attack

Police confirm 40 injured, the attacker and 4 others dead in Westminster terror attack. The injured include French school children, five South Korean tourists- including a 63 year old woman- and ...

Grammar schools are the answer... Kind of

The hysteria earlier in the week from people on the left surprised me. This time, the idea that the government could build a handful of new grammar schools has caused absolute outrage. This outrage ...

Terror Attack in Westminster

Today there was a terror attack on Parliament. As I work in the area, I've struggled to submit copy- I did early on, when it seemed like there had been a stabbing and shooting, but as soon as it ...

Kenyans Get an Early Start on Their Summer Election Season

Kenyans don't go to the polls until Aug. 8, but election fever is already gripping the country. On Twitter, one trending hashtag is #NotWithMyVote, which people are adding to tweets about their ...

Stephen Colbert Drops in on Stephen Colbert for The WERD: Screw Unto Others - The Late Show

Donald Trump's new budget proposal slashes funds for the arts, humanities, and Meals on Wheels. In fact, it's so vile that Stephen's identical twin cousin returned to praise ...

How South Africa's mining industry can change its ways

South Africa’s mining industry is increasingly cited as one of the key sectors that must yield “radical economic transformation” and help the country heal a deeply divided and unequal society. ...

UK Follows US in Banning Laptops in Planes From Muslim Majority Countries

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 ...

U.S. Chamber Official Meets with President of Ghana on Strengthening Bilateral Relationship

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Vice President of African Affairs and President of the U.S.-Africa Business Center Scott Eisner today met with His Excellency Nana Akufo-Addo, the newly elected ...

Article 50 to be Triggered Next Wednesday

Article 50, the provision of the Lisbon Treaty that forms the process of leaving the European Union, will be triggered next Wednesday, Downing Street has confirmed. This is in line with Theresa ...

I just don't know how YOUGOV sorts it's don't knows out

Hardly a snappy title but it is the best I could think of at the time, I do enjoy, and this might not come the top of most folks lists of enjoyments in life, but it is fairly high on mine. But, I do ...

Preemptive military action in North Korea 'on the table' - US Secretary of State

Today, the USA might have threatened to invade North Korea. In a dramatic break from past policy, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said that the US policy of ‘strategic patience’ is over and ...

Jeremy Corbyn and the left don’t understand how to win

Jeremy Corbyn last summer summed up the left: a rise from the obscurity of last century’s politics into the centre of attention. Corbyn’s ascent from backbench politics to becoming the leader of ...

Government pulls adverts from YouTube

The government has pulled ads from YouTube over fears that the adverts are appearing next to ‘inappropriate’ content, including extremist material. The government follows the Guardian and Channel ...

GBP’s Review of the first Trump/Clinton Presidential Debate

I’m writing this at 03:45 BST, with my reactions to the first Trump v Clinton debate. My immediate verdict? Trump was wholly defensive the entire time. He persisted by telling various ...

St. Petersburg Investigators Agree to Review Ballot Stuffing Allegations

It doesn't happen often in Russia, but police have agreed to investigate a case of potential voter fraud from last September's elections. Yegor Tratnikov, a candidate who lost his race ...

Philip Hammond hits white van man

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 ...

12 Police Forces Pass Election Expenses Files to CPS - The List of MPs

The Tory election expenses scandal rumbles on. After Channel 4 News broke the story, 14 MPs were investigated by police for failing to properly declare their campaign expenses at the 2015 General ...

Never mind Article 50, here’s why Article 127 could be crucial to keeping Britain in the single market

Britain’s membership of the European single market has become the most contentious issue in the post-Brexit debate. And the legal issues involved are proving rather tricky. Britain’s single ...

The Wilders Wilders West

The Netherlands goes to the polls tomorrow haunted by the prospect of a peroxide-blond, anti-immigrant firebrand leading his party to victory. Following the political earthquakes that were Brexit and ...

The Hunt for Russia's Next Enemy

Alexander III, the conservative Russian emperor who ruled from 1881 to 1894, once famously remarked to his ministers that Russia has only two allies: its army and its navy. "The others," he said, ...

The racial politics of time | Brittney Cooper - Ted Talks

Cultural theorist Brittney Cooper examines racism through the lens of time, showing us how historically it has been stolen from people of color, resulting in lost moments of joy and connection, lost ...

Identity in post-Brexit Northern Ireland

n the run up to the EU referendum, former Prime Ministers John Major and Tony Blair visited Derry. With their deep understanding and appreciation for the nuances and sensitivities of Northern Irish ...

Sturgeon's second independence referendum may be less well thought out than it seems

Yesterday, Nicola Sturgeon announced that the SNP will call for a second independence referendum in 2018, one year before Brexit negotiations are completed. The Prime Minister had not been warned of ...

Some GOP Voters Skittish On Full Repeal, Poll Finds

With their party gaining control of both the White House and Congress, some Republican voters are growing hesitant about outright abolition of the Affordable Care Act and instead favoring a more ...

Lack of leadership hinders Nigeria’s nuclear road map

[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 engineers ...

The state of the Paris Agreement post-Trump

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 ...

Trump's war on climate science - The Daily Show

As President Trump's administration quietly removes climate data from government websites, groups of hackers and scientists are mobilising to back up that data and move it to Canada. Climate ...

Nuttall Forced to Admit Claims he Lost a 'Close Friend' at Hillsborough are FALSE

UKIP leader Paul Nuttall has been forced to admit that he lied about his personal connection to the Hillsborough Disaster after a Guardian investigation into claims Nuttall has previously made about ...

MPs and Lords set for Brexit showdown

We could be set for a long night. The EU Withdrawal Bill is back in the House of Commons, after amendments were included in the Lords last week. Government ministers have urged the house to pass the ...

Building a Wall Between the U.S. and Mexico

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GCHQ warns British politicians about Russian hacking

GCHQ has warned British politicians about Russian hacking, according to a report in the Sunday Times. The report alleges that the intelligence agency has reached out to political parties to warn of ...

The Brexit Bill: So, 'Take Back Control' Meant A Tory Backbench Power-grab

Brexit was supposed to be about ‘taking back control’. The European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill only exists because the courts decided that, at the very least, Brexit should not be ...

Stephen Colbert discusses Trump's border wall with a series of experts - The Late Show

Stephen Colbert of the Late Show sat down with some experts to find out how much Trump's border wall might cost. After wading through the vague promises and claims regarding the wall, they ...

Is Fake News New?

I know what the smart-arses among you are saying already. ‘Of course not, the Daily Mail / Guardian / Fox / BBC exists’. I’m sure you’re laughing at your own joke now, convinced of its ...

Opposition Wins: The Essentials

In the past seventy years or so, there have been five really big changes in Government. Five mornings where everyone woke up to the election results and realised something genuinely significant had ...

Donald Trump has thrown Mexico's shockingly unpopular president a lifeline

As US president Donald Trump presses on with his personal crusade against us Mexicans, he’s finding out at last that the realities of government are quite different from the realities of life on ...

Kim Jong-nam's son - 'My father has been killed'

The nephew of North Korea's leader has confirmed on video that his father has been killed. Kim Jong-nam, the brother of the North Korean leader, died after a toxin was applied to his face in a ...

The Trump Dossier: How Much Should we Believe?

On Wednesday afternoon, CNN and the Washington Post began reporting in earnest on an intriguing intelligence report, compiled by a former member of MI6. This report had been in the hands of a former ...

The Great British Identity Problem

We are much less rational than we imagine. We British are not acting rationally these days about some of our big national choices. When foreign friends ask me with incomprehension about Brexit, I say ...

May DID Know About Failed Trident Launch

In one of the most spectacular, and scary, news stories of the year so far, we found out about a failed Trident missile test over the weekend. The missile was programmed to head from a location near ...

Bridging the Divide With Abkhazia

About 330 kilometers (roughly 200 miles) west of the Georgian capital of Tbilisi lies the city of Zugdidi, the administrative center of the country's Samegrelo region. Another 10 kilometers or so ...

How British Politics Reacted to Trump's 'Muslim Ban'

Trump's latest executive order, banning all refugees from the USA and banning anyone from a series of Muslim majority countries- or with a claim for duel nationality including one of a series of ...

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