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The PM has the party’s long-maligned progressives divided. Is this a new era, or a familiar fight?

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Depleted missiles abroad and armed fortresses at home reveal a president running out of options as midterms loom

Melania Trump is selling a story about lifting women up. I’m the mother of two she tried to frighten into submission.

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It's now on the Irish players to withdraw their labour and commemorate Ireland's past suffering by standing in solidarity with Palestinians

With billionaire donors bankrolling Reform, the fractured left must form a coalition ahead of the next election

'Israel's' defence minister Israel Katz has threatened the collective punishment of over a million people, vowing to evacuate and level Gaza

Right, so the tireless repairman of all things broken by himself, Donald Trump, has at last come up with what he says is the solution to the

CAA, the Israel-funded group habitually treats opposition to Israel's genocide and apartheid as antisemitic

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Add my name Data centres are springing up all over the UK – using massive amounts of electricity and, in many cases, huge amounts of water. The UK is already facing water shortages, high energy demand...

After the AfD’s win, activists say resisting the far right means defending the institutions where its politics take hold

Demand that Ofwat says no to bill hikes. Let water companies go bust and bring them into public ownership for nothing.

Our research shows Nigel Farage’s anti-elitist brand is vulnerable to stories linking billionaire cash to party policy

At the end of September Malaysia plans to hand over 1,500 Rohingya refugees to the Burmese military. Rohingya in Burma face ongoing genocide, executions, sexual violence, torture, forced conscription ...

I've called on the UK government to step up to its legal and moral obligation to stop ALL arms sales and military support to Israel. This is a crucial step towards accountability and justice. #StopArm...

Take action The fight to stop new oil and gas is heating up. And it’s a fight we can’t afford to lose. After a summer of record-breaking heatwaves, climate breakdown is impossible to ignore. Yet Prime...

As data centre companies rake in business, workers say they are being pushed to the limit.

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As the latest UNEP reports we will blow past 1.5°C, we must prioritise solutions that work, rather than focusing on complex, unproven technologies

For over a year, Elephant Madhuri was living in a sanctuary. Now, she is being sent back to the temple where she lived chained and in pain for years. Tell Indian officials to return Madhuri to Vantara sanctuary!

When wildfires tear across the countryside, the human impact rightly makes headlines.

Macklemore stood on stage with pop superstar Ed Sheeran and said two words: "Free Palestine."Days later, Ed Sheeran dropped him from his remaining US shows.Ed Sheeran chose warmongering billionaires o

When Bolsonaro was president, he almost destroyed the Amazon. Now, his son could be elected to start Bolsonaro 2.0 and finish the job. Recent research by Ekō just exposed that Meta AI, Gemini, Grok an

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The Trump administration’s forcible appropriation of a fifth of Venezuela’s oil reserves is worse than the theft of national assets in post-Soviet Russia.

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For 25 years, a law protected 59 million acres of forests in the US – some of the last truly wild forests on the planet – and just a few weeks ago, Trump signed off to end this protection.Now, pristin