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Albie Amankona: Kemi Badenoch must avoid Andy Burnham’s Brexit trap

The Conservative Party is currently trapped between two equally delusional political fantasies on Europe. On one side, the blinkered ideologues of Reform UK continue to peddle the absurd fiction that Brexit has been a…

Festus Akinbusoye: London’s man-made housing crisis can be fixed

London has already shown us how to build high-density neighbourhoods that endure and Maida Vale is proof of this. My ambition is to make six-storey, family-friendly mansion blocks a normal form of development on suitable…

Widening inequality, stagnant pay – Britain urgently needs Labour’s hard-won workers’ rights | Polly Toynbee

The British Social Attitudes survey , the nation's long-running annual pulse-taker, finds growing job dissatisfaction in its report, published today. People complain of a lack of flexibility in working hours, a lack of…

Poland’s court fight boils over

So, what now? On today’s show, Zoya Sheftalovich and Kathryn Carlson unpack Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s efforts to undo judicial appointments made under the previous right-wing Law and Justice government. Tusk’s…

UK and European peacekeepers in Ukraine would be allowed to fire back at Russians

The Anglo-French led stabilisation force would also not rely on US systems or technology, such as Elon Musk's Starlink, and is expected to be almost exclusively European if deployed. "Clearly we will protect our forces…

Bärbel Bas legt nach

Ihre offenen Worte über fehlende Menschlichkeit, den Druck aus der Koalition und Enttäuschung über Friedrich Merz bergen neue Sprengkraft für die Koalition. Maximilian Stascheit beleuchtet, warum dieser Auftritt eine…

Mahmood scraps settlement plans for migrant care workers

Mahmood had proposed doubling the wait for indefinite leave to remain (ILR) from five years to 10 for most migrants, with some facing a 15-year wait. But following a backlash from several Labour MPs, Mahmood revised the…

Why financial empowerment is the UK’s next great economic opportunity

Its analysis shows that more than 75 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds have used artificial intelligence (AI) for personal finance in the past year — the highest adoption of any generation. Yet they’re also the least…

Why Europe shouldn’t celebrate a Democratic midterm victory

“They can approve money, but Trump just turns around and says, ‘Well, I don’t have to spend it.’” Volker predicts Trump will step up his use of pocket rescission, a contested legal theory for clawing back congressionally…

Crisis over top court shapes Poland’s battle lines before 2027 election

They need a quorum of 10 of the court’s 15 judges to be present — meaning they need to peel away at least two justices chosen under the previous PiS government that ruled from 2015 to 2023. The fight over the control of…