Trade union members are as likely to vote for Reform as they are for the Labour Party, according to the top lines of a new poll published this week.

62% of unionists polled agreed that “Labour has lost touch with working people”.

France has recorded its hottest summer since measurements began over a century ago, according to the environment minister.

Exclusive: Friends of the Earth finds greatest sewage discharge in Devon, Cornwall, Dorset and Somerset

The president’s agenda is under strain as the Iran war pushes up prices and America’s finances worsen

30th May 2023 Techies have a phrase for the principle: GIGO – garbage in, garbage out. In essence, outputs tend to depend on inputs. With legal(istic) processes – trials or inquiries &#…

Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.

Rejecting North Sea drilling licences and protecting nature are just some measures Andy Burnham must implement to ready country

Exclusive: Analysis shows 55% of accounts were located overseas – and seven of 12 most-read posts came from US More than half the accounts that posted on Elon Musk’s X about the rioting in Belfast and the civil disorder in Southampton in June were based outside the UK, an analysis by the Guardian can reveal. Of the 8,672 accounts whose combined posts about the events exceeded 1,000 views, just 45.3% were shown as from the UK, according to the social media platform’s own location function. Continue reading...

Marine Le Pen and Nigel Farage have both learned political tactics from Donald Trump. But will they work in a European context?

Britain Means Business, owned by the party’s deputy leader Richard Tice, made two donations of £250,000 in the run-up to the 2024 general election.

France has appealed for international help, while Spain has declared a national emergency.

Byelection winner says heatwaves are causing ‘absolute chaos’ and workers need protection from unsafe conditions Hannah Spencer is to introduce a bill in parliament that would pave the way for a maximum workplace temperature in the UK, as the country grapples with increasingly frequent heatwaves. If passed, the legislation will create an independent body to recommend maximum safe workplace temperatures and set out how those recommendations should be implemented. Continue reading...

Rip currents are one of the coast’s greatest dangers and account for the most beach rescues every year.

Paul Powlesland and a team of volunteers removed 200 bags of litter, weed and silt but face action from the Environment Agency for not having a permit

Evidence shows Russians directing the plot and stoking tensions with fake far-right and Muslim groups.

As the trial for the three men charged with arson attacks on Keir Starmer’s properties concludes, HOPE not hate can exclusively reveal the dark Russian...

Evidence shows Russians directing the plot and stoking tensions with fake far-right and Muslim groups.

St Helens in Merseyside is run by a Reform council - and they now stand accused of banning displays on Refugee Week and Pride month

Football’s biggest show kicks off next week and the US president means to be its biggest star. But prestige-hungry hosts do not always get their way

People who publicly complain about ‘two-tier’ policing because people they agree with are being punished by laws that have existed for a decade, are making it increasingly easy to spot …