The Epstein files, Nick Candy and the question of Farage’s judgement
The Epstein files suggest links between Reform UK treasurer Nick Candy and Epstein’s circle, raising questions for Nigel Farage
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A legacy of home baking
A tender look back at a grandmother whose collection of recipes still provides inspiration to her family today
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Culture Clash – Lisa Nandy On Keeping Hope Alive
Critics say Lisa Nandy should spend more time meeting stakeholders in her brief, but the Culture Secretary tells Francis Elliott she’s fighting for the government to give hope to the most vulnerable. Photography by Tom Pilston
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Fitting memorial for a young man no longer the ‘unknown soldier’
Finally, a definitive answer to a decades-long mystery: the identity of an ‘unknown soldier’ buried in an unmarked grave a Belgian cemetery
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PM Warns Iran War "Could Go On For Some Time"
Keir Starmer has told MPs that the country must not fall into "false comfort" thinking that there will be "a quick and early end" to the Iran conflict and that he is planning on the basis that "it could go on for some time".
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Turning The Tide: Can Digital Nomads Breathe New Life Into Seaside Towns?
Britain’s seaside towns are often emblematic of economic ill-health, but Zoe Crowther finds hope that digital entrepreneurs will breathe new life into coastal economies
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Press release: From Cathedral City to construction sites, Chichester joins the UK’s Builders’ Brew Relay
With two tradespeople lost to suicide every working day, Fix Radio launches Tea-Lay to encourage more open conversations about mental health
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Who is protecting England’s drinking water?
A plan to drill through a key Yorkshire aquifer exposes gaps in regulation and raises risks to drinking water and long term water security
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Life in limbo: how the asylum debate is reshaping a coastal town
Bournemouth offers a microcosm of the UK’s asylum system – here, support networks, political tensions, and long waits shape everyday life
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From ‘Workington Man’ To Clubs On The Brink: Rugby League’s Fight To Survive
Rugby league is cherished by many of the 'left behind' towns that have become central to Britain's electoral politics. But now community clubs are fighting to stay afloat, reports Adam Payne
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Don’t ban Freddie please! Tesco gets petitioned
Petition launched to allow much-loved moggy back into Skegness Tesco store
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The Born in Bradford IRL Trial: a new study of social media
A new study of the phone habits of Bradford teenagers aims to increase understanding of the mental health effects of social media
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Inside The Battle For Labour's Mainstream: Luke Akehurst Vs Luke Hurst
Two internal players called Luke are battling to claim Labour’s mainstream. The outcome of their rivalry will shape the future of the party – and possibly the country. Sienna Rodgers reports
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Balbir Singh receives his MBE at Windsor Castle
Receiving this honour marks a point on an artistic journey to expand what dance can be, where it happens and the difference it makes
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Press release: Venice comes to Great Malvern with Monteverdi’s Vespers
On Saturday 30th May, Great Malvern Priory’s glorious acoustic will resound to a recreation of the musical grandeur of St Mark’s Basilica in Venice in the early 17th Century
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Racist Debates Happening Now Weren't Taking Place A Decade Ago, Warns Sajid Javid
Former cabinet minister Sajid Javid has said that division is on the rise in the UK.
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Ladybird summer
In the ladybird summer of 1976, the little red insects were all over the West of England
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Book review: The Growth Story of the 21st Century: The Economics and Opportunity of Climate Action by Nicholas Stern
In The Growth Story, Nicholas Stern sets out the large-scale change required to shape a path to future sustainable growth
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Public Backs Long-Term Protection For BBC, Poll Suggests
A poll shared exclusively with PoliticsHome has found widespread public support for the BBC charter being put on a permanent footing, in a move which the government has said will help protect the corporation from "culture wars".
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Sadiq Khan says Labour should pledge to rejoin EU
Downing Street has repeatedly said the government will not rejoin the single market or customs union.
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Banknote redesign has the usual suspects in a a flap
The Bank of England’s proposals to feature wildlife on banknotes have been met with dismay in some quarters
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Red Wall Labour MPs Urge Government To Stick With Immigration Reforms
Labour MPs on the right of the party are urging Keir Starmer to stick with a planned tightening of immigration laws after Angela Rayner called the reforms "un-British".
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The View from the Top
OK, there never was a plan but here’s the thing – I am the man
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Angela Rayner Joins Fightback Against Government Immigration Reforms
Former Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner has given her backing to the efforts of a large group of Labour MPs currently lobbying the government against its immigration reforms.
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Are electric bikes the easy option?
Some cyclists are reluctant to change to an electric bike because they see using an e-bike as cheating or laziness. Are they right?
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Larn thisen some language facts i Brooad Yorkshire: false friends!
A bit abaat Yorkshire's false friends i Shevield’s West Ridin Dialect [a bit about Yorkshire’s false friends in Sheffield dialect]
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Travelodge Pulls Out Of Meeting With MPs About Hotel Security
Travelodge has pulled out of a planned meeting with MPs who wanted to raise issues of room security with the hotel chain.
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Dunces: the non-fiction confederacy
There are parallels between a literary satire and political reality – but can the USA rid itself of its own Confederacy of Dunces?
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Is The Green Party Getting A Wave Of Councillor Defections?
The Green Party has said a growing number of Labour councillors are joining its ranks ahead of the local elections. What does the data say?
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Review: Personal Spot at the Music Work Hub, Gloucester
Personal spot is a great show for any admirer of original and exciting theatre
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Labour MP Bringing Forward Law To Tighten Hotel Security After Travelodge Assault
A Labour MP is working up a new law to improve hotel security after a woman was sexually assaulted in a Travelodge in 2022 by a man given a key card to her room by hotel staff.
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CO₂ is not just changing our climate, it’s attacking our physiology
It’s not just climate change we should worry about, increased CO₂ is already changing our physiology, and not in a good way
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Humber ranked among worst areas for ‘outdated’ river health assessments
National report finds more than half of government river health assessments recycle past data instead of conducting new monitoring
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Agri-tech: a new answer to the farming challenge?
The farming sector is on its knees. But agri-tech offers a solution. Are they beneficial for farmers or are they another barrier to cross?
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A long time in politics – are the wheels falling off Reform?
Gorton goes green, Reform responds with bad grace, the Mandelson fallout continues and council chaos ensues
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Government Does Not Expect Labour MPs To Rebel On New Welfare Reforms
Pat McFadden said he has “no reason” to believe Labour MPs will oppose a new wave of welfare reforms as he set out plans to get more young people into work.
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PM Says His Principles Are The Same As Public On Iran War
Keir Starmer has said he believes that his principles on how to approach the Iran war "are shared by the British people" as he set out support for UK households using heating oil.
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Press release: National recognition for Bedgrove Junior School as it achieves Centre of Excellence status for oracy practice
Bedgrove Junior School becomes a Voice 21 Oracy Centre of Excellence, celebrating its role in developing confident young communicators
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Labour MPs Push For Tighter Controls On Holiday Lets
Short-term holiday lets are a major part of Britain’s tourism industry – but many Labour MPs want tighter controls on their number. Will the government listen? Noah Vickers reports
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‘Racist’, ‘offensive’, ‘useless’, ‘pathetic’: Reform UK and the Tory defectors, in their own words
Braverman, Jenrick, Zahawi, and Farage tell us how the Tories’ moral bankruptcy has led to Reform UK
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Iran: the long-term impact of a reckless war
History shows America’s wars are never over quickly. Can Britain protect itself from the inevitable consequences this time?
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Are New Right-Wing Parties A Problem For Nigel Farage?
Last month, former Reform UK MP Rupert Lowe launched a new party: Restore Britain. Some former Reform councillors have signed up. Another former colleague of Nigel Farage, Ben Habib, leads Advance UK. What effect, if any, will these right-wing partie...
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Book review – Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller
Chip War charts the exponential growth of the power of the semiconductor chip and the battles that fuelled its creation
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Lib Dems Fear Frustrated MPs Could Defect To The Greens
There is concern within the Liberal Democrats that some of their MPs could defect to the Greens amid restlessness over the direction of the party.
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An open letter to Adrian Warwick
Warwickshire’s chaos isn’t an accident – it survives because Conservatives keep the ladder steady while denying they hold it: an open letter
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Ministers Face “Staggeringly Expensive” Energy Bill Support Without More Targeted Scheme
A government intervention to protect energy bills from the impact of the Iran war risks being "staggeringly expensive", a leading economist has said.
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Ed Davey takes aim at the unpatriotic right
The Liberal Democrats have opened a new front in the battle with right-wing parties and commentators
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MPs Urge Support For Homeowners Threatened By Coastal Erosion
After a year of unprecedented rates of coastal erosion, Matilda Martin visits a Suffolk village where she finds homeowners left liable for the costs of demolishing their own homes – but only after a bat survey
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ADHD Me: my experience of living with neurodiversity
My brain has the acceleration of a Lamborghini and the brakes of a pushbike, but nobody told me why until I was 27
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What Is The Iran War Doing To UK Energy Bills?
The conflict in Iran has triggered concern about an energy bill shock in the UK. How likely is a spike in prices? And what could the government do to mitigate it?
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Government Confident Of Defeating Legal Challenge Over Anti-Muslim Hate Definition
Exclusive: The government is confident that any legal challenge launched by free speech campaigners over the new anti-Muslim hostility definition will fail.
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Gas-Powered Data Centres Endanger Net-Zero Targets, Warns Polly Billington
Polly Billington, chair of Labour’s coastal group of MPs, talks to Noah Vickers about how her party can deliver for the seaside, why Ed Miliband was ahead of his time as leader, and the need for a 'national conversation' about data centres
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Marrakech, a hectic and enchanting city
Exploring the food, history, and lifestyles of one of Morocco’s oldest and bustling cities
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Queering the EU’s Foreign Policy and external relations: What does this mean and why does it matter?
By Dimitris Bouris (University of Amsterdam), Saul Kenny (Article 109), Hanna L. Mühlenhoff (University of Amsterdam) In our recent article for JCMS we set out to queer the European Union Foreign and Security Policy. But what does this mean? Queer, once a slur, is now a popular term that captures the variety of sexual orientations […]
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When Development Policy Becomes Migration Policy: Side Effect or by Design?
By Agnese Pacciardi (School of Global Studies, University of Sussex) In June 2026, the European Union’s Pact on Migration and Asylum will enter into force. The Pact explicitly recognises the role of civil society organisations and NGOs in EU migration management, acknowledging their practical expertise, especially in working in contexts that are outside the EU. […]
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Everything We Just Learned About Government Plans For Digital ID
The government has launched its long-awaited consultation on digital ID. Here is what we learned, as well as questions that remain unanswered.
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Zack Polanski: “There’s A Lot Of Inauthenticity In Politics, But It’s Not Coming From Me”
Green Party leader Zack Polanski talks to Sienna Rodgers about his by-election success, potential Labour defectors, and how his upbringing shapes his views on Zionism
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Government Announces New Social Cohesion Strategy
The government has announced its new cohesion strategy which includes a long-awaited definition of anti-Muslim hatred.
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UK "Stands Ready" To Support Emergency International Energy Reserves
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has confirmed the UK is ready to back a coordinated release of International Energy Agency oil reserves to help stabilise fuel prices, as the Middle East conflict continues.
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Jeremy Corbyn Officially Elected Parliamentary Leader Of ‘Your Party’
Exclusive: Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has officially become parliamentary leader of ‘Your Party’ after being elected to the role by the new party’s executive committee.
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Roz Savage: Lib Dems "Need A Plan" For A Coalition
Liberal Democrat MP Roz Savage speaks to Matilda Martin about why she became a record-breaking ocean rower, how the breakdown of her marriage liberated her, and why she would like to see Ed Davey’s party have a strategy for coalition
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How The Defence Industry And MoD Ended Up At Loggerheads Over 'Britishness'
When the Ministry of Defence launched a string of reforms targeted at improving its work with small business, they did not stint on the rhetoric.
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Why The Iraq War Still Haunts Labour MPs
As the Iran conflict continues, the lessons and warnings from the 2003 invasion of Iraq and its long aftermath are shaping the response of Labour ministers and MPs.
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Lorries skipping border checks is disease risk - MPs
Government data shows a rise in trucks failing to turn up at Sevington after arrival in Kent.
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Summary: “Public Health, Markets, and Law” – A Symposium in the Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics
On 24 February 2026 3-4.30pm GMT, EUHealthGov hosted the launch of a Symposium entitled ‘Public Health, Markets, and Law’ published recently in the Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics of the American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics, and guest-edited by Dr Mina Hosseini and Professor Imelda Maher (both UCD). The role of markets in […]
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Spain to check Gibraltar arrivals under post-Brexit deal
Arrivals at the Rock's airport would have to show their passport twice under a new UK-EU treaty.
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A UACES-funded fieldwork trip exploring big tech companies’ roles in translating what cybersecurity is
I am honored to have received the UACES scholarship to support my fieldwork in Brussels. As a doctoral candidate at KCL, my research focuses on how tech companies contest securitization processes after being labelled as national security threats. Exploring tech companies’ contestation of these security claims aims to ask a bigger question of how tech […]
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Why could the EU's new border system mean holiday delays?
The EU's much-delayed Entry/Exit System will change the way UK passengers travel to 29 countries.
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Reeves argues for deeper trade partnership with EU
Chancellor Rachel Reeves says closer partnership with the EU is beneficial for economy and security.
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Soft Authoritarian Transformation of Higher Education in Hungary: Taming Academic Freedom with Neoliberal Precarity
Zahra Jafarova In the shifting landscape of European higher education, neoliberal reforms used to be celebrated as tools for financial efficiency and institutional autonomy. But how does such a market-oriented framework function when it is instrumentalized by a regime drifting away from democracy towards authoritarianism? In Hungary, the transformation of the university system stands out […]
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The boundless mystery of Assimilated EU Law?
This piece was originally published on the UK in a Changing Europe site. It’s something of a truism to say that Brexit is a process, not an event, but nowhere is this more evident than in the UK’s continuing difficulties in managing the pieces of legislation it adopted during its time as a member […]
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Legitimacy and legacy of the EU’s socio-economic crisis governance during Covid-19
By Marius Guderjan (Centre for British Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) and Mario Kölling (Department of Political Science, Spanish National Distance Education University) Although the COVID-19 pandemic seems something of the past and meanwhile overshadowed by other crises, we should still remember its profound impact on public health, people, employment and businesses. In 2020, the real […]
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In memory of my grandparents
The photo accompanying this article shows the memorial stone at the site of the Nazi extermination camp based in Treblinka, Poland. It was one of over 40,000 death camps and incarceration centres purposely built to mass-murder or enslave millions of people during Hitler’s regime. I drove to Treblinka in 1991. It was one of the […]
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In memory of my grandparents
The photo accompanying this article shows the memorial stone at the site of the Nazi extermination camp based in Treblinka, Poland. It was one of over 40,000 death camps and incarceration centres purposely built to mass-murder or enslave millions of people during Hitler’s regime. I drove to Treblinka in 1991. It was one of the […]
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From Capital Markets Union to Savings and Investments Union: Why the EU keeps changing the story on financial integration
By David Howarth (University of Luxembourg) and Lucia Quaglia (University of Bologna) Financial market integration has been a core objective of European integration since the 1950s. Over several decades, the European Union (EU) has adopted hundreds of legislative acts aimed at removing barriers to cross-border finance and harmonising the regulation and supervision of capital markets. […]
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New year, same old UK-EU relations?
I notice it’s been some six months since my last post here, which reflects on both the new pace of UK-EU relations and the lack of anything useful to add to the debate. I did bestir myself to write about the return of finance-based framing back in November, as various people noticed this was a […]
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Starmer ready for closer EU alignment 'in the national interest'
It is the clearest indication yet the PM wants to pursue a closer relationship with Europe in a broader number of areas.
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Don't rule out EU customs union, TUC boss tells Starmer
Trade unionist Paul Nowak says he wants to see the "closest possible" economic relationship with the EU.
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How Rejoin can win
For years the pro EU side has been fragmented. Different groups protected their own branding, their own messages, their own direction. But no single organisation can deliver Rejoin. Not the European Movement, not any party, not any individual campaigner. If we want to rejoin a union of European countries, our first task is to become […]
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Knowledge is how we win against Brexit
The antidote to lies is the truth. Britain left the EU because the public were systematically misled. Many now recognise this, but millions still do not. When the truth becomes widely understood, the UK can reset its view of the EU. A fresh start. A chance to see Europe not through myths, but through facts. […]
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Henry Zeffman: Less than meets the eye to Starmer's words on Brexit
This week, the PM was trying to set the scene for what is to come on the UK-EU relationship, sources say.
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The message Britain ignored: Why we need migrants
The warning was clear over a decade ago, but Britain failed to listen. Back in 2014, on the BBC’s Sunday Politics London programme, Andrew Neil was discussing David Cameron’s plan to curb EU migration, a plan driven more by fear than common sense. Nick Watt, then of The Guardian and now of BBC Newsnight, offered a […]
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Europe’s first single market 2,000 years ago
The first time Europe had free movement of people, a single market, and a single currency was under the Roman Empire. The Itiner-E project, created with Google’s support, has digitally recreated the enormous 186,000-mile road network that once connected Rome’s dominion from Britain to the Balkans. People, goods, and ideas travelled freely across a continent ruled […]
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Polish pilots helped us to win the Battle of Britain – but later they were shunned
It was 85 years ago, on 31 October 1940, that Britain finally crushed the relentless Nazi air assault on our country that had lasted for over three gruelling months. Without brave Polish pilots it’s unlikely that the Battle of Britain would have resulted in the first major defeat against Hitler. The Poles were extremely skilled […]
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Labour can’t make Brexit work
My poster in October 2024 said the black hole in Britain’s finances was Brexit. Now the Chancellor agrees: Brexit is the cause of many of Britain’s economic problems. Rachel Reeves has finally drawn a straight line from leaving the EU to the choices in her budget. In an interview with The Guardian, she admitted that […]
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Migrants are not to blame for Britain’s problems
Britain depends on migrants – yet our leaders and some newspapers still scapegoat them for the nation’s ills. The truth is the very opposite: without migrants, Britain would struggle to survive, let alone thrive. Ten years ago, in October 2015, I gave a speech about how UK newspapers were publishing shocking lies about migrants and […]
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Churchill’s dream has almost come true
In May 1948 Winston Churchill declared at the launch of the Congress of Europe: “We cannot aim at anything less than the union of Europe as a whole.” Churchill’s dream has nearly come true. Today, almost every European country is either in the EU or has applied to join. The outsiders? Russia, Belarus, and Britain. On […]
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Brexit: How Britain was out-negotiated
Michel Barnier, the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator, kept a secret diary of the talks. Published in 2021, it revealed in painful detail why Britain lost so badly at the negotiating table. Jonathan Powell, former Downing Street chief of staff, summed it up. Britain was left with: “a flawed withdrawal agreement and a deeply disadvantageous future […]
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Sea border for food and agricultural products 'in place until 2027'
The border for such goods will not be dismantled until 2027, the UK government is expected to confirm.
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What is the new Northern Ireland Brexit trade deal?
Ministers have set out new trade arrangements for Northern Ireland, the rest of the UK and the EU.
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A quick guide to what's in the Brexit deal
These are the most important aspects of the UK-EU deal, and what they mean for people's lives and businesses.
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Full Brexit journey in under two minutes
It's been more than three years since the UK voted to leave the European Union but how did we get here?
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Why we lost – and where we go from here
When the history of Brexit is written, the Lib Dems’ decision to let Johnson hold this election will be seen as a key strategic error.
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7 reasons to vote Johnson out
We can kick Johnson out. So brave the elements and vote for the candidates with the best chance of beating the Tories.
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Trump sabotages Brexiters’ last-ditch safety net
Relying on the WTO for our trade was always a terrible idea. Now that the US president has ripped a hole in it, it’s economic suicide.
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With a final tactical voting push, we can beat Johnson
Good news from YouGov poll is Tory lead is shrinking. Bad news is they are still ahead because too many pro-European votes are being wasted.
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Johnson won’t stop the chaos – that’s just propaganda
A Tory victory means more chaos. The only way to end the arguments over Brexit and fix our real problems is to vote them out.
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Tories bully BBC because it’s easily cowed
Johnson yesterday hinted he would axe the licence fee. This had two purposes: cover up his NHS blunder and pummel the BBC into submission.
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At Christmas you tell the truth, but not if you’re Johnson
PM rips off Love Actually in his video but misses out the punch line: “Just because it’s Christmas and at Christmas you tell the truth.”
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Don’t worry about voting tactically for Corbyn. He won’t win
Right-wing press has branded Corbyn unelectable. They are right - he is. Not for the reasons they suggest, but because of simple maths.
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Tory “punch” propaganda backfires
To cover up Johnson’s NHS disaster, Tories fabricate story about Labour activist punching Hancock aide.
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Johnson’s dishonesty and disorganisation on Irish Sea border
Not only is Johnson lying about surrendering to the EU demand for an internal UK border, he isn’t ready to deliver a deal by December 2020.
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