Lord Brougham as John Bull, calling on the Prince Regent (later George IV) to curb his extravagance.
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The excesses of political leaders have always needed checking.
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Very few people in Scotland identify as ‘European’ – so EU membership is not the big draw some might hope.
Alamy/Jessica Taylor
Key moments over the past year illustrate where things are going wrong for the Labour leader.
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Read the constituency results to understand where the independence debate heads next.
Nicola Sturgeon thinks she’s found the exit.
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Nicola Sturgeon wants Scotland out, Boris Johnson hopes to hold it all together and Mark Drakeford believes in the best of both worlds.
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When should you tune in for the big announcements over the weekend?
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The two big constitutional questions of the age have caused complicated divisions that help explain party support.
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Welsh Labour is on course to win but who else will secure seats in the Senedd?
Only time for one scoop on the campaign trail in Wales.
Alamy/Matthew Horwood
From councils to devolved parliaments, a bumper crop of contests is happening on the same day.
Alamy/Gary Calton
Located in the region that delivered Boris Johnson a majority in 2019, the Labour leader needs to send a strong message by holding onto this seat.
The prime minister and his partner, Carrie Symonds, are facing questions over who paid for their Downing Street flat to be refurbished.
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The Electoral Commission says there are “reasonable grounds to suspect an offence or offences may have occurred”.
Kezia Dugdale was Scottish Labour leader from 2015-17.
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Ahead of the Scottish election on May 6, the former Scottish Labour leader explains what’s at stake – and what could happen next.
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An incoherent Brexit policy has ended the DUP leader’s career – but her party can’t pretend they didn’t giver her full support.
Nicola Sturgeon wants to use a mandate at the May 6 elections to argue for a second independence referendum.
Plus, how researchers have discovered a biological switch that can turn neuroplasticity on and off in the brain. Listen to episode 13 of The Conversation Weekly podcast.
Scotland’s Robert the Bruce defeated a much larger English army at the Battle of Bannockburn.
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Hastings and Bannockburn didn’t exactly bring people together, but they remind us that the component parts of the UK are inextricably linked.
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A lie is halfway around the world before the truth gets its trousers on.
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Explaining the organisations and laws that are supposed to govern the link between money and influence.
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Religious voters have long, historical ties to particular parties, but the changing nature of politics is shifting their allegiances.
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We studied shared values within England and found an even larger gulf between Northerners and Southerners than we did between English and Scots.
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The former prime minister didn’t break any rules in his relations with Greensill – because the rules hardly exist.