Derbyshire county council accused of ‘worst kind of double speak’ as it denies banning local democracy journalist but says it will ignore his inquiries

New mental health centres in local communities with no referrals and no waiting will bring a lifeline to many

Hundreds of men, some wearing balaclavas, attempted to prevent asylum seekers being transported for processing The government has condemned the “thuggish and intimidating behaviour” of far-right activists who blocked roads in Portsmouth after a boat carrying asylum seekers arrived in the city, two days after similar scenes in Dover. Hundreds of men, some dressed in black and wearing balaclavas, tried to stop the arrivals from being transported for processing until 3am, when police removed them with threats of arrest. A witness said two police car windscreens were smashed. Continue reading...

At approximately 7:30 this morning, hundreds of black-clad members of Patriot Platform, a far-right vigilante unit, blockaded roads in Dover. They marched north east off...

Port authorities say access roads ‘free flowing’ again after large group forces road closures in both directions

Traffic on A20 in and out of port grinds to halt as Kent police say they are in attendance and engaging with group

Port authorities say access roads ‘free flowing’ again after large group forces road closures in both directions

Port authorities say access roads ‘free flowing’ again after large group forces road closures in both directions

Traffic on A20 in and out of port grinds to halt as Kent police say they are in attendance and engaging with group

Traffic on A20 in and out of port grinds to halt as Kent police say they are in attendance and engaging with group

Port authorities say access roads ‘free flowing’ again after large group forces road closures in both directions

Port authorities say access roads ‘free flowing’ again after large group forces road closures in both directions

Exclusive: 7,280 suspected illegal spills in rivers and sea recorded in first five months of 2026 The number of suspected illegal discharges of raw sewage into rivers and seas by water companies during dry weather increased significantly during the first five months of 2026. Dumping raw sewage into waterways during dry spells via overflows amounts to pollution. It is considered a breach of the permits given to water companies and is illegal. Discharging during dry weather increases the toxicity of the sewage pollution entering waterways. Rivers have less flow and volume, and there is no rainwater to dilute the sewage pollution entering the waterway. Continue reading...

Higher education figures call on Labour to reverse tax on fees and warn institutions at risk of ‘going under’

Housing secretary says earnings declared in line with the rules

The anti-trans pressure group Sex Matters are running a campaign of hate, spewing abuse online and in the media – and putting trans people in danger. Sex Matters say they work to “protect everybody’s ...

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The Edinburgh attacks on five Muslim men received seven times less coverage than a comparable antisemitic attack in London two months earlier, reports Hugh Wilkinson

Analysis showed how much the UK could have grown if it had not exited the EU.

Farage’s personal company has almost £2m in cash but has not filed key documents

British Medical Association resident doctor members in England announce new strike for four days from 15 June.

There has been a sewage discharge at Southsea East which started at 18:26 on May 2, 2026. Southern Water is responsible for this discharge.

Under oath, officers said they were told to make eight arrests a day and given special tech to help choose ‘targets’

Reform UK processes cryptocurrency donations through a foreign infrastructure that housed a US Treasury sanctioned crime syndicate laundering $4 billion in illicit funds – including proceeds from Nort...

Health justice charity Medact says data-sharing potential could be used for UK version of US immigration raids Palantir’s NHS contract opens the door to the Big Brother-style data-sharing that Reform UK would use for a version of US immigration raids, health bosses have been told. Palantir Technologies – the data analytics company founded by Peter Thiel and Alex Karp – won a £330m NHS England contract to deliver the Federated Data Platform in 2023. Continue reading...

Government facing prospect of most serious backbench revolt yet over proposals for England and Wales Plans to curtail the number of jury trials in England and Wales have been described as “unpopular, untested and poorly evidenced” by thousands of lawyers who have written to the prime minister. The letter to Keir Starmer, a former director of public prosecutions, from 3,200 lawyers, including 300 senior barristers, comes as his government faces the prospect of one of its most serious backbench revolts since coming to power. Continue reading...

The Greens have polled higher than Labour in the latest poll by YouGov, which puts them only two points off Reform UK and five ahead of the governing party.

It didn’t take them long. After years of welcoming trans people into cricket, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) rushed through a ban on trans women playing women’s cricket just two weeks after...

There is no end in sight to the pollution caused by a ‘broken’ system. Experts say it could even be getting worse

We're sick of it. Sick of the lies, sick of the greed, and sick of a system rigged against us. This is a scandal and this dirty business must end. For more than 30 years water companies have put corpo...

Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.

This is an approximate transcript of the second meeting of the Progressive Economics Working Group, held in Parliament on 10 February 2026 to launch a new report on Rewiring for […]

Two decades of weak pay growth have left poorer households stuck, Resolution Foundation says, fuelling political unease