The Clacton byelection trivialised democracy, but I’ve seen with my own eyes what it means to those who don’t have it. Reform’s leader should have known better

The Clacton byelection trivialised democracy, but I’ve seen with my own eyes what it means to those who don’t have it. Reform’s leader should have known better

Analysts fear Iran has played a weak hand well and the US has blundered into a defining strategic failure

The Good Friday Agreement proves that once bitter enemies can be brought together

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Labour peer says he is ‘deeply ashamed’ his party is backing moves to ban group

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Peer opposed banning group and says fellow Labour peers and MPs are regretting proscription

Hansard record of the item : 'Palestine Action Protests: Arrests' on Wednesday 23 July 2025.

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US President Donald Trump has long embraced a populist political strategy built on white victimhood, and his current hostility to South Africa reflects that - along with his staged attempt to humiliat...

Winning Sunday’s FA Cup final after an unbeaten WSL season would mean a domestic clean sweep but the US international really wants a Champions League

Countries are struggling to manage expensive loans, with much of debt transacted through London

Absolute free speech is a right enshrined in the law, which is fundamental to British democracy. We must defend it, says former government minister Peter Hain

President Donald Trump’s tariffs and American nationalism have thrown the world upside down, his antics inviting Kris Kristofferson’s lyric: ‘A walking contradiction. Partly truth and partly fiction.’

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All the latest political news with Nick Servini. With guests Lord Peter Hain, Labour; Luke Young, Citizens Advice; and Derek Walker, Future Generations Commissioner.

Labour knows the centre left has the greatest interest in government working well.

Jensy Machado, a naturalized US citizen from Virginia, believes US immigration agency profiles Hispanic people * US politics live – latest updates A Virginia man who was detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agents despite being…

More than 25% of men in the US experience rape, violence or stalking by an intimate partner, but it’s hard for them to get help. Here’s why and what can be done.

As Donald Trump took the oath of office on Jan. 20, he was flanked by some of the world’s wealthiest people. The billionaires present that day — including Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg — h...

As US-Russia talks continue in Saudi Arabia, we look at the US president’s misleading and outright false statements

Albrecht Weinberg ‘horrified’ that MPs relied on far-right party to pass anti-immigration motion

Some say it was an unambiguous Nazi salute but others are unsure and say focus should be on Musk’s stated support for far-right * Did Elon Musk give a Nazi or Roman salute, and what’s the difference? There were angry reactions across Europe to Elon…

Meta says it is working quickly to resolve the problem, which has prompted accusations of bias on social media.

She joins a list of politicians to announce they are leaving the platform

Putting pressure on social media companies to tackle hate and misinformation is a start, but there’s more that the centre left can do, writes Sadiq Khan