3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (1617+ words) The newspaper of record failed to distinguish between corrections and retractions in the work of the late Cambridge University academic, fuelling the media firestorm that engulfed him Jason Arday, Cambridge University’s Professor of Sociology of Education, resigned in August after…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (869+ words) Analysis of the latest Electoral Commission filings shows 87% of the £5.4m in donations newly-declared by Nigel Farage’s party came from donors linked to offshore jurisdictions In last week’s Channel 4 News and Verbatim exposé, which filmed senior Reform figures apparently encouraging foreign…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1010+ words) Young people, low-income and trans voters were among the groups hardest hit by the policy imposed by the last Conservative Government, academics found Mandatory voter ID damages trust in elections far more than it improves it, a new study suggests....

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (926+ words) The Ministry of Defence has refused to clarify whether the catastrophic mid-air failure of the Trident relay system was a weather accident or sabotage Britain’s sole emergency communications link for sending nuclear retaliation orders to Trident missile submarines has been…...

1+ week, 9+ hour ago   (1113+ words) The corporation’s news coverage has lost its soul as a bulwark against unaccountable power and extremism, writes a former BBC News producer The coverage of Nigel Farage and Reform UK by BBC News in recent years has raised some disturbing…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (903+ words) £648 million of UK taxpayers’ money sent to France has gone unaccounted for since 2018, with a further £660 million due to be spent by 2029. A French parliamentary inquiry has described the UK-France border deal as “irrational, ineffective and dangerous”, warning of its…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (332+ words) Exhaustion, low morale, ‘starvation’ rations and broken equipment: Brynn Tannehill examines what the 260-day deployment of the USS Abraham Lincoln says about the limits of US power The response of the Pentagon was to deny only the most outlandish claims,…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (627+ words) The Prime Minister has just opened the door to a radical change to how we are governed, writes Anthony Barnett. Will he now walk through it? On Friday 31 July, Andy Burnham made history, even if he did so in his…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (963+ words) The party’s founding documents reveal the extraordinary levels of power Nigel Farage wields over Reform UK, making it all but impossible for party members to remove him In February 2025, Reform’s then-Chairman Zia Yusuf wrote: “We are pleased to announce that,…...