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Labour MP Jess Asato has called on the government to create a legal definition of technology-facilitated violence against women and girls, arguing that stronger protections are needed to tackle the growing threat of AI-generated abuse.
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Keir Starmer has suggested that he would offer Andy Burnham a cabinet job if the Greater Manchester Mayor wins the Makerfield by-election on Thursday.
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Labour MP Michelle Welsh has just been appointed the government’s first national maternity adviser. She tells Sienna Rodgers about her personal experience of birth trauma and why she’s fighting for all mums and babies to be better treated by our mate...
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Context is a critical component of business and management research, shaping organisational behaviour and influencing outcomes. In management literature, it is widely acknowledged that “context counts” and “context matters”. Yet it is often present only implicitly, as a backdrop – an afterthought or a control variable – limiting the development of context-sensitive theories and marginalising […]
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AI-generated text now creeps in everywhere. Here are some of the most common clues that a machine may be doing the writing
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Wole Soyinka’s quietly powerful play The Swamp Dwellers comes to Utopia Theatre in a new revival directed by Dr Mojisola Kareem
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Lord Heseltine speaks to Noah Vickers about regenerating Britain’s cities, the devolution agenda and why Margaret Thatcher ‘would have hated’ Nigel Farage
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People often ask why I got into politics. The answer is two-fold and simple
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Unitarians have long supported LGBTQ+ rights, support that has never been more vital in the face of the EHRC Code of Practice
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Labour MP Josh Dean, one of the UK's youngest MPs, has said the government’s ban on social media for under-16s is going to “create more problems” for young people rather than making them safer.
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In the summer of 1976, the people of Bristol were part of a fascinating footballing experiment
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Keir Starmer has confirmed that the government will ban social media for under-16s.
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Investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS) used to be a niche corner of international economic law. It allowed foreign investors to bring claims directly against host States before arbitration tribunals, usually when they believed that government action had breached an investment treaty. The system was designed to depoliticize investment disputes and give investors a neutral forum outside […]
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Contrary to populist politicians’ rhetoric, the data shows that immigration is a necessary and beneficial force in the UK economy
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Over 100 global artists set to transform Bradford’s public spaces in July into performance stages for music, dance and more
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May’s local elections meant more councils than ever ruled by more than one party. Zoe Crowther investigates what might be a sign of things to come for Westminster. Illustration by Tracy Worrall
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Natalie Bennett, former Green Party leader, promoted Green Thinking: Unlearning Outdated Ideas in Science, Economics and Politics in Oxford, 26 May 2026
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He’s in charge of an institution with £1.5bn assets and of services vital to the lives of hundreds of thousands of people – and he’s not yet 20 years old. Nadine Batchelor-Hunt meets Reform UK council leader George Finch
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In a post-DOGE world where USAID is cancelled, the USA’s response to the latest Ebola outbreak is nothing to be proud of
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Our predominantly right-wing media constructs political reality. We must reject this destructive lens that paralyses effective governance
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A data investigation by The House has revealed a rise in violence against women and girls despite Labour’s 2024 pledge to halve it. Cristina Lia Trujillo reports
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The rapid expansion of digital health has fundamentally challenged the traditional territorial boundaries of healthcare regulation within the European Union. While the promise of seamless cross-border medical care grows, the legal realities of managing patient safety, professional liability, and regulatory harmonisation remain complex. Supported by a UACES Microgrant, I recently spent three months as a […]
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Dan Jarvis has been appointed as Defence Secretary following the resignation of John Healey on Thursday.
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Armed Forces Minister Al Carns has resigned over the government's plans on defence spending and its Northern Ireland Legacy Bill, claiming "the deal this country makes with the people who serve it" is "broken".
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Andy Burnham supporters are increasingly optimistic about Makerfield. Sienna Rodgers explores what comes after the by-election
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A former Labour defence secretary has warned Keir Starmer that his credibility "will be shot" if he doesn't rethink military spending plans in the wake of John Healey's resignation.
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Rotherham council’s leader defends a controversial small grants scheme for flag-buying that has attracted criticism from both left and right
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Keir Starmer has said that rioters who set fire to homes and cars in Belfast on Tuesday night targeted people because of their background, warning that he will not "tolerate it".
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The chair of the Red Wall caucus of Labour MPs has called on ministers to keep British oil and gas in the energy mix as the government's net zero policy comes under backbench pressure.
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The Rejoin Ramble reached Brussels at the weekend, carrying its message of hope from the British people
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Lise Moawad The rise of university alliances has become a defining feature of the contemporary European higher education landscape. While transnational partnerships that have emerged through programs such as the European Universities Initiative (Gunn 2020) have received much attention, local university alliances, especially those based in capital cities, remain relatively understudied. These local configurations are […]
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As Labour now knows to its cost, the Greens have sharpened their campaigning prowess considerably in recent years. Tom Scotson profiles Miles Thorpe – the man getting much of the credit for a series of wins
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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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Since April 2023 Sewage Watch has been keeping a running log of press coverage on the state of sewage dumping into our rivers and onto our beaches
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The left insurgent party has swelled with those backing its stance on Gaza, but how will the Greens formulate a new foreign and defence policy that will satisfy members and attract swing voters? Harriet Symonds investigates
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Worrying findings of an investigation into the impact of the CPS’s ‘deception as to sex’ guidance on prosecutions of transgender people
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With AI writing becoming increasingly commonplace, how can we spot it and what difference does it make?
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The Liberal Democrats are under pressure to remain relevant, with their own MPs publicly admitting there is frustration about the party's lack of progress since the last general election. PoliticsHome can reveal that a strategy "rethink" is now under...
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If the latest immigration and asylum figures tell us anything, it’s that the far-right will never be appeased
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Andy Burnham has said he would take a "much more devolved" approach to getting people into work and bringing down welfare spending.
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Exclusive: Andy Burnham has told The House magazine that he would support “early change” to the House of Lords, with reform – including downsizing it – coming by way of the next general election.
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EU investment helped turn a Merseyside in decline into a growing regional economy. This is one insider's account
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The teenage Reform UK councillor leading Warwickshire council has claimed that a Restore Britain government would deport people "just because of their colour".
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Six times a year, the Royal Ballet and Opera holds school matinees. Matilda Martin meets some of those who went from auditorium to working backstage as it tries to shake off its elitist reputation
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Former health secretary Wes Streeting has said Reform UK’s response to the murder of Henry Nowak “has echoes of the 1930s”.
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Based on his experience as a journalist covering Russia for decades, Sweeney’s narrative in Killer in the Kremlin lives up to the title
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Called to clear the return to Parliament of a high-profile Labour figure, the 1965 Leyton by-election prefigured the Makerfield contest, writes Lord Cryer. But, he asks, how would today’s voters react if a minister were involved in a punch-up?
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Exclusive: A number of Labour MPs who oppose replacing Keir Starmer are refusing to campaign for Andy Burnham in the Makerfield by-election.
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Prime Minister Keir Starmer has told MPs "there is no justification for more violence and disorder" following riots in Southampton and criticised Reform UK leader Nigel Farage's calls for "pure cold rage" in response to the murder of Henry Nowak.
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An overnight visitor levy is coming to England – but what will it look like? And will it be resisted? Noah Vickers reports
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Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has said it is wrong for politicians to “seek personal profit” from the murder of Henry Nowak.
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Tourism minister Stephanie Peacock talks to Sienna Rodgers about introducing a controversial tourist tax and tackling short-term holiday lets – plus why Labour finds itself in a mess, but relitigating Brexit would be wrong
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The former UK ambassador to the US, Peter Mandelson, told a cabinet minister that Keir Starmer's No 10 operation required a "complete revamp and infusion of purpose" in a series of WhatsApp messages last year, the latest tranche of documents relating...
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Marija Antanavičiūte Effective ethics-policy advisory systems are increasingly important in the context of rapid technological change, declining public trust in science, and shifting geopolitical dynamics. Questions about who becomes an ethics expert and who advises governments on ethical issues, who controls the narrative on major cross-national issues such as regulation and ethics of AI and […]
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What does excellence in European Studies look like? For a long time, the answer has been shaped in relatively narrow ways. Publications, major research outputs and senior recognition have often taken centre stage. These contributions remain vital to the field, but they do not capture the full picture. European Studies is also built through teaching, […]
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I am honored to have received the UACES scholarship to support my fieldwork in Brasília. As a doctoral candidate at KU Leuven, my research focuses on how the diplomatic cooperation between the European Union (EU) and Brazil unfolds in practice at the bilateral, inter-regional and multilateral level. By tracing the strategies and practices present in […]
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The UACES Annual Conference is widely recognised for its academic quality, but it also stands out for the value it offers to delegates. At a time when conference costs are rising across the sector, UACES has taken a deliberate approach to ensuring that high quality academic exchange remains accessible, inclusive and affordable. You can discover […]
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By Karolina Borońska-Hryniewiecka (Polish Academy of Science & Paris 1 – Panthéon Sorbonne) & Jan Kotýnek Krotký (Masaryk University) On 9 May 2026, we celebrate Europe Day and the fourth anniversary of the closing event of the Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE) hailed as a landmark transnational democratic experiment. During CoFoE hundreds of […]
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Ask any academic about how they have come to their present station in their careers and they will talk at some point about the role of chance. The conversation in a queue at a coffee break at a conference, the sitting in on a departmental seminar series, the email on a disciplinary mailing list: the […]
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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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Downing Street has repeatedly said the government will not rejoin the single market or customs union.
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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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Arrivals at the Rock's airport would have to show their passport twice under a new UK-EU treaty.
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Chancellor Rachel Reeves says closer partnership with the EU is beneficial for economy and security.
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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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