How one city became the centre of a social media circus

<p>A motorway heading north from Preston was closed due to a reported crash between a HGV and a van. Emergency…</p>

In a letter to his former Labour colleague, the peer, who joined Peter Thiel’s AI company this month, writes: ‘You have made the case against the company more or less continuously’. By Carole Cadwalla...

In 2026, we are all living in the US president’s warped outrage factory – in which the death of a vulnerable man is used as cannon fodder for clicks, writes Victoria Richards

In Donald Trump’s latest fascist outrage, ICE agents swarmed the Minnesota Democrat’s DC house, the whole thing reported by Fox. In Kansas, the president tried to stop a senator from self-destructing.

<p>With the Burnham government pressing the accelerator on Devolution for Mayoral authorities, the panel will consider the question of A Mayor for Lancashire?</p>

RJ Mitte, best known for his role as Walter "Flynn" White Jr in Breaking Bad, has died aged 34.

Research challenges the notion that the growing visibility of crosses and other symbols reflects a revival of Christianity Christian nationalism in Britain is being driven largely by people who rarely attend church and are more concerned with defending the country’s Christian heritage, according to research. The report, by the thinktank Theos, identified five different groups within the UK in a survey that looked at their attitudes to Christianity and Britishness. Continue reading...

Ellie Chowns says vote for ‘Zionism is racism’ policy by 0.4% of members shows party processes are not working A Green Party MP has said she wants to make sure her party is not “vulnerable to capture by extremists and racists” amid the continuing fallout from the “Zionism is racism” vote. The party faces a political maelstrom over its policy decision last week to treat Zionism, the movement for a Jewish state, as any other form of racism, and to back a single Palestinian state over a two-state solution. The motion was passed at the annual party conference with just over 1,000 votes, approximately 0.4% of the total membership. Continue reading...

Riders at the Giro di Lombardia staged a brief protest on Saturday, delaying the start of the race by five minutes to draw attention to safety concerns following a series of incidents involving non-race vehicles

Those were the days, eh? Way back in 2024, we were a Party on the up with a record number of MPs. The Tories were banished and in disarray. We talked, in all seriousness, about how we would be the Off...

After the silly season comes the serious stuff. On Monday, parliament returns after a bumper five-party conference season. But while both Andy Burnham and Kemi Badenoch can claim to have cemented thei...

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Conservatives plan ‘new integrated air and missile defence system to protect Britain from attack – in essence, a British “Iron Dome”’

Labour expects to win, the Greens are hoping for the best and the right-wing parties have a ruck all of their own

<p>Lancashire continues to look set to be the only place in the North of England without a Mayor by May 2027</p>

As politics fragments, Andy Burnham’s promise to overhaul the electoral system is welcome – but what comes next is far from settled

We tell the inside story of a city's relationship with Abu Dhabi, including notes that show a council official saying: 'You don’t criticise the council’s relationship with the football club’

Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of Spanish cities in protest at the country's housing crisis in the wake of the forcible eviction of 87-year-old Maricarmen Abascal.