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West England Bylines will be on tour at the Bristol Radical History Festival on 25 April, the M Shed
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Why is raw sewage being discharged so regularly into our rivers, and what are the concerns and consequences for our health?
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The EU's much-delayed Entry/Exit System will change the way UK passengers travel to 29 countries.
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A group of charities and medical organisations has warned the Home Secretary that stricter rules for people claiming asylum in the UK could put "further pressure on over-stretched NHS mental health services".
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Labour MP Samantha Niblett has launched a campaign to make 2026 the “summer of sex”, as she pushes for more open, inclusive lifelong sex education.
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As Lord Dubs leads the charge against the government’s immigration changes, he talks to Sienna Rodgers about his disappointment in Labour, his hopes for rejoining the EU, and why Keir Starmer must step out of his advisers’ shadow
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Wes Streeting has defended his decision to abolish NHS England, but admitted he can “understand why so many of my predecessors didn’t bother” given the scale of disruption and opposition.
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The three authors talked to Philip Lymbery, author and CEO of Compassion in World Farming on 21 March in the Sheldonian Theatre
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Former US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton privately urged Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey to “stand up to bullies” like Reform UK during a recent visit to London.
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Labour MPs say Angela Rayner is down, Andy Burnham is up. Sienna Rodgers reports on the obstacles on the mayor’s path to No 10
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Donald Trump may be a modern phenomenon but the ingredients that made his ascendancy possible have been around since the US was founded
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The government is right to address the serious court backlog: but jury trials are not the real cause, and cutting them may backfire
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Andy Burnham remains a likely candidate to replace Keir Starmer if the Prime Minister leaves office before the next election. Tom Scotson goes in search of the people, ideas and forces shaping what would be his third leadership campaign
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Britain has long played a major role in innovating and sustaining partnerships for young people and perhaps Yorkshire can take a lead?
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Using ‘loose parts’, varied play zones, and planning for sustainable play in the future, Princes Risborough Primary School has enriched students’ play by stimulating imagination, adventure and learning
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The plan to reduce the use of jury trials is a "distraction" from the real reasons for the court backlog, a Labour MP has said, as the government braces for the prospect of a major backbench rebellion over the reforms.
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Although I am currently immersed in the London local elections — speaking with residents, listening to concerns, and experiencing democracy at its most immediate level — I didn’t want to miss the chance to reflect on Hungary’s 12 April vote. I have analysed Hungarian politics for many years, and this election is among the most […]
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Trump’s ever-changing list of reasons for going to war with Iran reveals his true purpose: to ensure his own survival
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Cutting emissions in British surface transport is no longer a distant policy goal. It is an immediate necessity
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Zack Polanski has acknowledged that the Greens may face issues when it comes to vetting candidates due to the speed of the party's growth.
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The US government calls it "economic pressure". We call it "terrorism by hunger"
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Halifax Dukes burned brightly in 1966: they didn’t just revive speedway in the town, they made it unmissable
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Former defence secretary Michael Fallon has called for Nordic-style conscription in the UK in response to growing international threats.
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Exclusive: Tracy Brabin’s attempts to start construction on a Leeds tram network before her next re-election campaign were blocked after a confidential Whitehall review concluded this deadline carried a high risk of wasted taxpayers’ cash.
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Even the most intellectually brilliant military strategists sooner or later end up badly over-reaching themselves
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Exclusive: The government is carrying out a consultation on whether to implement tougher laws on the public sale of fireworks.
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Interest rates on some student loans will be capped at six per cent from September amid the conflict in the Middle East, the government has announced.
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This blog challenges statements made by The Daily Telegraph by quoting other sources and giving our own editorial view
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When you listened to someone else’s idea and things didn’t quite turn out how you planned but it’s definitely not your fault
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Across England, Scotland and Wales, voters will go to the polls on 7 May in what could be one of the most fragmented and unpredictable local and devolved election cycles in recent British politics.
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Evidence suggests that Brexit has been bad for the UK and a majority of the public now agree but should we – can we – rejoin the EU?
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The issue of student loans has recently exploded into life, with the government's decision to freeze the repayment threshold prompting outrage and a debate about major reform. Now that more than 15 years have passed since their highly-damaging tuitio...
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Voters are frustrated as scandals, injustice, and unpunished corruption persist, undermining trust in government and fairness
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A rare account by one of the forgotten victims of Nazi hatred, a communist survivor of Hitler’s genocide
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We will be at Bristol Transformed, Saturday 4th of April. Come and say 'hi'
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A poem for Easter
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There are growing questions over whether Travelodge should continue to receive taxpayers' money after PoliticsHome revealed that the public sector had given the hotel chain over £68m since a woman was sexually assaulted in one of its rooms in 2022.
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Ed Davey has called for the government to reduce public transport fares to protect people from cost-of-living pressures triggered by the Iran war.
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Keir Starmer has warned that attempts to resume the vital flow of traffic through the Strait of Hormuz "will not be easy" in a Downing Street statement on the Iran war.
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Students could take legal action after over a dozen universities wrongly classified their courses as being eligible for maintenance loans, leading to thousands being told they owed money.
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King Charles and Queen Camilla will meet US President Donald Trump on a state visit to the United States in late April, Buckingham Palace has confirmed.
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Karl Turner MP has had the Labour whip suspended after a series of strong public criticisms of No 10 and government policy.
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The Printed Paper Office’s Shaun Connor is retiring after an extraordinary 48 years of service to Parliament. He tells Noah Vickers about his varied career and the ‘privilege’ of working in Westminster
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Keir Starmer has reiterated that the conflict in Iran is "not our war" and the UK is "not going to be dragged into it" as the government tries to protect households from the economic impact of the conflict.
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There has been a 13-fold increase in the use of court orders that deny children freedom to move and associate in the last seven years. Justine Smith explores the reasons behind this huge increase in what are supposed to be emergency orders
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Labour MP Sonia Kumar tells Sienna Rodgers about travelling to Ukraine with a team of British clinicians to train local therapists, helping injured soldiers recover faster
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Cristina Pinna Over the past decade, research security has moved from a technical concern discussed among specialists to a central issue in European research policy. What began as a debate about protecting sensitive technologies has expanded into a broader question about how knowledge should be governed in a changing geopolitical environment. Today, it shapes funding […]
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Exclusive: A student loans mistake by universities has seen up to £190m of taxpayers’ money wrongly given to unaware students, PoliticsHome can reveal, leaving thousands of them facing repayment orders.
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After a life in golf and football, Brian Leishman finds himself at the sharp end of the new government’s whipping operation. He speaks to Ben Gartside.
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On this week’s episode of The Rundown, housing minister Matthew Pennycook talks about taking on nimbyism and how plans for seven ‘new towns’ will help hit ambitious housebuilding targets.
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Attorney General Richard Hermer has warned that failure by the Labour government to improve Whitehall delivery will pave the way for Reform UK to "dismantle" the civil service.
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Labour MP and former AI minister Feryal Clark has warned that restricting young people’s access to social media could "cut off" vital education resources for disadvantaged or vulnerable children, as parliamentarians consider whether to introduce a ba...
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Downing Street has repeatedly said the government will not rejoin the single market or customs union.
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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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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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Government data shows a rise in trucks failing to turn up at Sevington after arrival in Kent.
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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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Arrivals at the Rock's airport would have to show their passport twice under a new UK-EU treaty.
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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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Chancellor Rachel Reeves says closer partnership with the EU is beneficial for economy and security.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Trade unionist Paul Nowak says he wants to see the "closest possible" economic relationship with the EU.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The border for such goods will not be dismantled until 2027, the UK government is expected to confirm.
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Ministers have set out new trade arrangements for Northern Ireland, the rest of the UK and the EU.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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To cover up Johnson’s NHS disaster, Tories fabricate story about Labour activist punching Hancock aide.
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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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