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Afghan women told the BBC five years of Taliban rule have made their lives unrecognizable; record Japan rainfall killed eight and stranded thousands at Narita. France's highest court struck down a child social media ban, the Trump administration sought Supreme Court approval for a White House ballroom, and Zambia paused its vote count after attacks. Also: a US report says countries helped China dodge tariffs, a kidnapped missionary was freed in Niger, and Nigel Farage won Clacton.

The Daily Mail has been rebuked after it ran a front page story yesterday claiming that ‘eco-dogma’ and ‘rewilding’, not climate change, has caused the record number of UK wildfires this summer. New ...

Reform chairman Lee Anderson gave a strained BBC Radio 4 interview defending Nigel Farage's absence from his Clacton by-election count after winning by over 12,000 votes. Reform's earlier claim of a police safety warning was denied by Essex Police; Anderson then said Farage was celebrating with supporters, and argued the BBC shouldn't judge threat credibility.

Until Zohran Mamdani took office as New York’s first explicitly socialist mayor, the last time one of the world’s megacities was led from the radical left was nineteen eighty six. The city was London....

Francesca Hong, a State Assembly member in Wisconsin, nearly just became the Democratic nominee for governor. The 37-year-old democratic socialist, a single mom and former restaurant worker, was leadi...

Count Binface, Nigel Farage’s main rival in the Clacton by-election today, has exposed the absurdity of the Reform leader claiming to be “anti-establishment”. Setting out his stall to constituents ahe...

As the fifth British heatwave of twenty twenty six hits, new polling has revealed that the British public overwhelmingly supports the introduction of a national maximum workplace temperature. Polling ...

Advance UK, a competitor party to Reform and Restore Britain, formally deregistered with the Electoral Commission in July, amid fears it would only haemorrhage support to Rupert Lowe MP’s Restore Brit...

US President Trump was covertly relocated during an NATO summit in Turkey amid security threats, while Colombia’s earthquake death toll rose to 181. A ferry capsized on Lake Kariba, and former Chinese premier Zhu Rongji died. Meanwhile, Wisconsin held a gubernatorial primary, Thailand halted gun licenses, and Zambia faces election scrutiny.

As Farage prepares to stand in the Clacton by-election tomorrow, The Sun has reported that Farage has “no regrets accepting” the money. Farage was not asked whether he has any regrets about failing to...

Labour MP Clive Lewis has said that Andy Burnham must commit to not approving any new North Sea oil and gas licences at an emergency meeting about the extreme heat today. Lewis told Left Foot Forward ...

Leading democracy groups Unlock Democracy and Compassion in Politics wrote to the Metropolitan Police Commissioner calling for the force to “investigate whether Nigel Farage MP may have committed the ...

Media regulator Ofcom has launched two investigations into anti-LGBT hate speech on GB News after receiving a total of 15,000 complaints. On one of the shows, a guest appeared to link pride parades wi...

The Prison Reform Trust dismissed Reform UK's plan to send foreign prisoners abroad as "simply not credible," citing costly, difficult trials in Belgium and Norway. Estonia ruled out a rental deal hours after being suggested, while Amnesty criticized the human rights implications, particularly regarding El Salvador.

citing a Polish law. Fellow Reform councillor Carol Ney resigned over the party's response, while group leader Steve Ricketts refused to suspend Tyler, citing

Reform UK training materials advise activists to avoid "drinking and tweeting," treat social posts like press releases, ignore "no junk mail" signs when leafleting, and skip party branding to stay "unidentifiable." The party warns infighting and gaffes are its biggest threat. The cache emerged as Nigel Farage faces a Clacton by-election amid standards complaints.

As gig work has expanded from a marginal feature of the labor market into a significant one, a question that once seemed narrow and technical has taken on broad consequences: What does it mean to be a...

Article examines centrist Democrats' opposition to California's billionaire wealth tax, with Newsom framing it as driving wealthy residents away and facing constitutional hurdles. It argues their preferred alternative—taxing "buy, borrow, die" loans as capital gains, as in Gallego's bill—would do little to address inequality and billionaire power.

IMAX's exploration of a sale threatens its independent role as a neutral middleman, which currently lets films like The Odyssey dominate screens over studio hits. A Disney purchase would prioritize its own movies, an AMC buyout would hurt rival chains, and private equity would degrade quality.

Our study asked participants one simple question (followed of course by some demographic questions). We presented participants with a hypothetical scenario or vignette and asked, “Based only on the in...

Prime minister Andy Burnham must revoke permission for the US to use British bases for airstrikes against Iran, union chiefs have said. In an open letter sent last week , ten trade union leaders repre...

A Syrian court sentenced former President Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia for war crimes, a symbolic verdict as he remains in Russia. President Trump was secretly evacuated from Turkey via a catering truck amid an alleged Iranian assassination threat. Russia used North Korean missiles in a Zaporizhzhia attack killing six, while Lebanon abolished the death penalty and France banned unsolicited telemarketing calls.