A deep-seated duopoly allows the tech giants to exploit the public and developers. But the regulator has powers to stop this abuse – it should use them, says Labour MP Chi Onwurah

Former Tory minister defends UK decision to enter war in podcast with US rightwinger and Putin sympathiser

Andy Street has urged the Conservatives to embrace electoral reform, arguing that a proportional system (PR) would encourage the party to be a “broad church”. The former West Midlands mayor made the c...

As Green Party leaders and MPs, we will always uphold universal human rights. We will never tolerate any form of discrimination or harassment. We will continue to stand in opposition to genocide, ethn...

EXCLUSIVE: An online tracker by Best For Britain reveals 51 Reform UK councillors have quit, defected or been suspended

Health authorities in Siberia’s Irkutsk region have placed nearly 200 people under medical observation after a laboratory worker died from plague, according to media reports and a statement by a regio...

Democracy for Sale is all about the threats to democracy from dark money and hidden influence, why it matters…. and what we can do about it. Launched in July...

Now that English Nationalism has been unleashed, Peter Jukes argues that we must all try to restore England's buried civic tolerance and historic diversity.

David Robinson joins other insiders in urging industry to take more care over rapidly developing technology

A new ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) facility for unaccompanied children, families, and single women is set to...

President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of interest.

Kevin Rees, aged 63, was sentenced at the Old Bailey on Friday, 2 October.

Hammersmith and Fulham says it faces ‘biggest financial challenge in living memory’ as government cuts bite

Chinese buyers of London homes say they feel like “chives” • Bafflement at Londoners’ love of old homes built during the “Qing dynasty” • Fascination with the enigma of the British electrician

There are no legal grounds for the FSB to have held Amet Abyltairov incommunicado, without any formal charges, for six months, and it is unfortunately likely that the case is based on testimony extrac...

Revelation comes amid mounting concern over online prediction market’s effects on integrity of financial system UK authorities are being urged to intervene after it emerged that the online prediction market Polymarket has been taking thousands of dollars worth of bets over whether HSBC and Lloyds will fail. Polymarket – the US-owned company which holds bets on anything from football matches, to the existence of aliens, to when a bomb drops on a city – has allowed users to take $77,507 (£58,530) worth of positions on whether the world’s biggest banks will go under by the end of this year. Continue reading...

Burnham has reopened the Brexit debate. That doesn’t mean the UK will be welcomed back on its own terms