In July 2025, Keir Starmer’s Labour party was elected on a promise of ‘change’, a suitably vacuuous slogan which allowed voters to impute to it whatever they liked. Most hoped for…

Without article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights the gross negligence behind the deaths at Hillsborough would never have been uncovered

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Former First Minister Alex Salmond reportedly offered advice to the Reform party ahead of last summer's general election

GETTY IMAGES By Professor John Robertson OBA In the Times today: British households paid around £10 each, on average, on their energy bills last year to support a controversial wood-burni…

Senior doctor who saw bodies says men appeared to have been ‘executed’, adding to evidence of potential war crime Some of the bodies of 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers, killed by Israeli forces and buried in a mass grave nine days ago in Gaza, were found with their hands or legs tied and had gunshot wounds to the head and chest, according to two eyewitnesses. The eyewitness accounts add to an accumulating body of evidence pointing to a potentially serious war crime on 23 March, when Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance crews and civil defence rescue workers were sent to the scene of an airstrike in the early hours of the morning in the al-Hashashin district of Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost city. Continue reading...

Research highlights link between low LDL cholesterol and reduced dementia risk, with statins offering additional protection Lowering your levels of bad cholesterol could reduce the risk of dementia by 26%, a study suggests. People with low levels of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) in their blood have a lower overall risk of dementia, and a reduced risk of Alzheimer’s disease specifically, according to research published in the Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry. Continue reading...

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We need a new politics of belonging, not Labour’s craven appeasement of capital, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Labour’s planned cuts to disability benefits have been rightly condemned for targeting the vulnerable, but they’re also economic nonsense

John Swinney has declared the SNP 'back in business' as he warns Scottish Labour his party will win in 2026.

It cost £2.3 million, it lasted four years. It originated in a politically motivated complaint from a notorious attention seeker with a habit of making nuisance complaints to the police, but Police…

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