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Conversations from America's communities at a precarious time. Click to read States of Play, by Steve McGookin, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

The Trump administration has spent months investigating the lab after a Chinese postdoc was charged with smuggling biological material into the country.

Outsourcing companies frequently compete to win public contracts by reducing costs: it's a race to the bottom on the pay, terms, and conditions for their workers. This has a knock-on effect for servic...

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The Nato alliance is beyond repair. The future of Atlanticism is transactional

Royal Court Liverpool is the friendliest theatre in the city. With pre-show dining and a range of drinks served before and after the show, a trip to The Court is night of great entertainment.

In a world full of misinformation, our commitment to reporting the whole picture has never been stronger

196,387 signatures are needed, let’s get there by the end of the day?

Equity has announced today its boycott of the government’s survey in relation to BBC Charter renewal, calling it “unfit for purpose in either detail or scope”. The union points to the survey’s complet...

Never has a former prime minister so tarnished their own reputation

The world may be burning but members of Britain’s governing Labour party seem more interested in a fight over the leadership

Stop the stitch-up! The Government wants to push through water legislation, locking in a failed privatised system for decades without giving the public a say. I’ve signed the petition to stop this wa...

It's time.

An analysis of video footage raises questions about claims by President Donald Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem about the fatal shooting in Minneapolis.

Analysis of the UN adviser’s statement by Labour CND, together with model motions for CLPS from the Campaign for Labour Democracy and Momentum and details of upcoming events. American economist and…

Urge Audible to cease AI narration rollout

The Liverpool Post

The Fyre Festival of Affordability Tours Begins

Plenty of trained foreigners want to work, but slots for the qualification exam seem as hard to get as Glastonbury tickets

The renowned photographer has died aged 73. We look back at his chronicling of the Wirral

Things have not got better since 2020. In fact they've got worse.Our politicians need to wake up and smell the expresso

Charlotte’s just 30. Diagnosed with MND two years ago, she’s struggling to adjust to her new reality. Like most people with MND, she needs major changes to her home. Things like a ramp, and a wet room...

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£25bn of imagined savings, real-world cruelty and mathematics that should come with a trigger warning

Prevent American Buy-ups of British TV channels

By Tim Lezard The BBC is so left-wing that since 2010 its biased reporting has resulted in the election of four successive Conservative governments and, last year, of the most right-wing Labour adm…

Scales played hotel manager Sybil Fawlty, the bossy wife of Basil, in the classic British sitcom.

The deputy Chief of Staff at the White House is the descendant of immigrant Jews fleeing anti-Semitism. And yet he's the president's persecutor in chief.

Dave Ricks says Britain will miss out on medicines and future investment unless it pays more

Trump told the assembled European leaders that they were destroying their own countries in a move that was ‘basically Maga madlibs’

Nigel Farage says he welcomes freedom of speech, even if people find it offensive. Surely that should apply to freedom of the press too? So why have Reform's Nottinghamshire councillors - who control ...