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The UK government has scrapped the “one in, one out” agreement with France to swap people who have entered the country by illegal means for those with a good reason to come here.

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UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham has committed the country to the creation of a National Care Service, in his speech to the Labour Party conference.

The Department for Work and Pensions is about to get new powers to take money from benefit claimants’ bank accounts.

Reform UK has explicitly threatened “consequences” for schools that do not comply with a proposed requirement for pupils to sing the national anthem and hymns.

Reform UK has explicitly threatened “consequences” for schools that do not comply with a proposed requirement for pupils to sing the national anthem and hymns.

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Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband has been briefing foreign ministers from countries around the world of the threat climate change poses to national security.

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If access to diagnosis of long-term medical conditions is easier for people who can afford to pay privately, and diagnosis makes it possible to claim the Personal Independence Payment (PIP), does the ...

Days after I used a catchphrase from BBC sketch show Little Britain to illustrate an article explaining why artifical intelligence should not be allowed to make decisions affecting human beings, the L...

What happens when a state benefit designed around the additional care needs of a disabled child is replaced by one that measures a much narrower set of adult functional limitations?

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Annual state pensions are set to rise past £13,000 from April 2027 and to hear the rich carrying on about it, you’d think the sky had fallen on them.

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What a shame the government has tried to shoehorn a daft idea onto a series of apparently-progressive plans for changes to disability benefits.

Let me see if I’ve got this right.

MPs and peers are saying there should be a new law to regulate AIs so they cannot threaten human rights, according to the BBC.

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Police forces are struggling with funding, staffing and support. Could sharing specialist resources provide an answer to the UK's policing crisis?

Kemi Badenoch has lodged her foot well and truly in her mouth by attacking the government for refusing to cut social security benefits - after a national survey showed the public were keen on increase...

The UK government has announced sanctions and other measures against Israel, in protest against the plan by that country to build a huge new settlement on Palestinian land in the Occupied West Bank - ...

A long-awaited (and expensive) reorganisation of councils in England into unitary authorities may not be happening after all, because of legal advice received by Local Government Secretary Angela Rayn...

The mood of the UK has turned ugly over small boat crossings bringing people to the UK to claim asylum here - despite the number of arrivals being at its lowest point in years.

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Nigel Farage reckons the UK is a “complainants’ society” - and he’s the target.

This is a classic example of unforeseen consequences.

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Most voters want the government to slash the disability benefits bill, and they don’t care how it’s done - according to an article in the i paper last weekend (August 29-30, 2026).

The Liberal Democrats reckon teachers are burning out and need better working hours and more support to stop them leaving the profession.

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Sports Direct owner Mike Ashley doesn’t seem to know the meaning of the word ‘populist’, which he has used to describe Andy Burnham’s bid to tackle the cost of living.

Andy Burnham has announced changes to his proposed ‘early release’ scheme for prisoners - but they are likely to only stop the Tories being able to use the ‘PC Harper’ case to attack him - not to solv...

Why is the government trying to get us to trust so-called ‘legacy’ media, when it’s so easy to poke holes in the argument?

It took me ages to get around to this because I didn’t want to mess it up.

Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband was right to condemn Israel’s decision to build settlements across the West Bank, which is Palestinian land, according to Liberal Democrat MPs.

A row between the Labour government, trade unions and businesses has exposed potentially disastrous problems with the plan to end “exploitative” zero-hours contracts for employees.

Don’t skip past this - it’s about how much cash you’ll have in the future.

The BBC has running one of its regular scary articles about inflation today, saying the average cost of goods and services is once again rising at a faster rate.

The Israeli government may finally have gone too far in its eternal persecution of Palestine.

Reform UK seems to be getting desperate - perhaps because it has lost ground to Labour in the polls and a once-commanding lead has now become a battleground.

We’ve really been plumbing the depths of human stupidity in this summer’s heatwaves.

Nigel Farage has won the Clacton by-election, with 63 per cent of the vote - on a low turnout of 44 per cent.

UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham has said he accepts his announcements aimed at tackling the cost of living are not enough on their own.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has proposed that every citizen of a foreign country serving a prison sentence in the UK should be sent to serve their sentences abroad.

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