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Labour should not “write off” next May’s elections as a likely moment for big losses but use the budget as a way to seize back voters’…

A Labour-run council is using a legal loophole to issue dozens of families with no-fault evictions, despite Keir Starmer’s manifesto pledge to outlaw the practice.Scrapping no-fault…

It’s extraordinary that a profound reshaping – and shrinking – of our democracy is happening under our noses, and virtually no one notices. For baffling reasons,…

“Why do Australians care about the domestic politics of the US?” is being asked a lot.In the wake of another bloody week in US news and…

Butler County Sheriff Richard K. Jones spoke to inmates inside the jail in Hamilton, Ohio. Half of the jail’s beds have been contracted to Immigration and…

“You can journey to the ends of the earth in search of success,” 19th-century Baptist preacher Russell Conwell is said to have proclaimed, “but if you’re…

The decision by Nottinghamshire council’s Reform UK leader, Mick Barton, to ban his councillors from speaking to the Nottingham Post is as absurd as it is troubling.…

Over the past decade, local newsrooms have been disappearing from the U.S., leaving communities without a trusted information source for happenings in their region. But a…

A Reform council leader’s decision to ban his councillors from engaging with a prominent local newspaper is a “massive attack on local democracy” and a sign…

August 20, 20252 min readSecond U.S. Malaria Case Not Tied to Travel Raises Fears of Local Transmission One-off cases of malaria in the U.S. may become…