Former Conservative MP Mark Logan has said he is backing Labour at the upcoming general election. Logan won his Bolton North East seat with a majority of just 378 in 2019, making it one of the most marginal in the country. In a statement posted on X/Twitter, Logan said that […]
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A Labour frontbencher has said that Labour must be “fit for the future” as the row over whether Diane Abbott will stand as a party candidate deepened on Friday. Peter Kyle, the shadow science secretary, said that Abbott “was a trailblazer” and praised her achievements “in the past”. But asked […]
Birmingham – Kingstanding Conservatives 829 (47.9 per cent, +4.7 on 2022) Labour 680 (39.3 per cent, -6.1) Lib Dems 82 (4.7 per cent, -0.0) Green Party 72 (4.2 per cent, -0.0) Workers Party of Britain 46 (2.7 per cent, +2.7) Trade Union and Socialist Coalition 20 (1.2 per cent, -0.5) […]
Professor Ian Acheson is Senior Adviser to the Counter Extremism Project. Do you know where you were on 27 August 1979? I do. I was sitting in a car having just visited Northern Ireland’s only safari park as a holiday treat. The news came out of the blue cloudless sky […]
Part of the Series Challenging the Corporate University The May 20, 2024, cover of The New Yorker by cartoonist Barry Blitt depicts a zip-tied graduate receiving her diploma on stage while accompanied by police. The image reflects a truth that has been laid bare in recent weeks: University students who […]
Originally published by The 19th. This story is part of the series Expecting worse: Giving birth on a planet in crisis, a collaboration between Grist, Vox and The 19th that investigates how climate change impacts reproductive health — from menstruation to conception to birth. When Rupa Basu was pregnant with […]
A dirty little secret of the airline industry has again popped up its toxic head after four Jetstar cabin crew members were taken to hospital in Cairns on Thursday, having become overcome with fumes on a Queensland flight. That secret is poor air quality, which crew and passengers are often […]
Scott Morrison’s book tour has been a wide-ranging, jet-setting extravaganza. He’s been hanging out with former Trump confidantes Mike Pence and Kellyanne Conway, as well as the convicted felon and former president himself. He even managed a moment of bipartisan solidarity and convinced Labor predecessor Kevin Rudd, now our ambassador […]
A Manhattan jury found former President Donald Trump guilty Thursday on all 34 charges of falsifying business records to hide “hush money” payments in 2016 to former pornographic movie actress Stormy Daniels. Upon leaving the courthouse, Trump called the trial a disgrace and said, “This was a rigged trial by […]
Labour National Executive Insert Themselves Into Safe Seats mdi-fullscreen Yesterday morning saw the fallout of Starmer’s purge of the some of the left of his party with the elimination of a few key targets. Last night was the second half of the operation. Labour National Executive Committee members parachuted themselves […]
