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Polling suggests Andy Burnham is attracting progressives back to Labour, motivated by desire to stop Nigel Farage

Jonathan Portes explains why the ONS updated its productivity estimates for the period between 2009 and 2019 from 0.7 per cent to 1.3 per cent and what this change actually means for the UK economy.

It’s easy to forget that Nigel Farage was once (technically) a colleague of James O’Brien at LBC, before he left the station in 2020 having made inflammatory remarks about Black Lives Matter protester...

Daniel Thomas was tailing a small boat in a speedboat after it spent more than 30 hours travelling through the Channel.

A German court has explicitly named Mastodon and Bluesky as positive examples of social networks that could retain hosting protection. It gets Bluesky’s feeds wrong, but its reasoning about user control might be more useful than it realises.

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Also in today’s newsletter: China accuses ousted top generals of ‘disloyalty’ and SoftBank launches one of biggest junk bond deals

The AI startup confirmed it has set up a Bay Area lab for physical experiments as it pursues drug programs in diseases pharma has overlooked

FT finds thousands of Russian payments handled by Standard Chartered, Citigroup and other international groups in vast leak from inside fintech A7

On 12 October, Parliament will debate the UK's future relationship with Europe, after a government petition got over 100,000 signatures. Will you write to your MP to ask them to attend the debate?

Bridget Phillipson dubbed Jim Ratcliffe a “tax exile” who has “lost the moral high ground”.

Sir Ed took aim at Nigel Farage’s Reform UK and billionaire Elon Musk during his speech at his party’s annual conference.

A year-long Channel 4 Dispatches investigation has raised serious questions about Stephen Lennon’s finances. Add your name and call on the Government to refer them to HMRC for investigation.

A third-party test company inadvertently gave internet access to Google’s Gemini and other artificial intelligence models during cybersecurity testing.

Co-owner of Manchester United says Britain is in decline because of high taxes and immigration

The chancellor wants the Made in Europe programme to deepen ties with the UK "rather than erecting new barriers".

Reform's Danny Kruger was laughed at by Question Time audience after making a laughable claim about the party's crypto billionaire donations.

A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...