For the first time in two years, we freed ourselves from the far-right’s strangle-hold over the news agenda.

Progressives need to rediscover the positive case for immigration

The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press

On Tuesday, the Prime Minister announced a national commission on electoral reform. In this article originally published in the Conversation UK, Alan Renwick explains that such a body should secure public involvement, not aim for a particular result and listen to the experts. He also emphasises that any change to the electoral system should be carried out with the greatest possible care.

It’s easy to be cynical, but it would be false. Something extraordinary is happening here.