This ten-year-old boy’s father and cousin were believed to have drowned when their boat sank on the way to Australia.
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Why are governments so rarely seen as being responsible for creating the conditions that allow asylum seeker tragedies to occur?
Copies of the Good Friday Agreement were printed out and given to the public in 1998 ahead of a referendum.
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A law making its way through parliament that would grant widespread immunity from prosecution for people accused of crimes during the Troubles.
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The former prime minister insists gatherings with wine were essential work meetings.
Former President Donald Trump reacts to the crowd after he finished speaking at a campaign rally in support of Sen. Marco Rubio in Miami in November.
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The newest class of right-wing populists aims to not only dismantle the guardrails of democracy, but also the most fundamental principles of the rule of law. We must prepare.
The House of Commons Committee of Privileges has released new images of parties in Downing Street during lockdowns.
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Johnson claims he didn’t know pandemic rules were broken when parties were held in Downing Street.
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The former prime minister repeatedly calculates that voters don’t care about his rule breaking. But that is not necessarily true.
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It’s rare to have quite so many former PMs and first ministers still in parliament.
Protesters, supporters of Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro, storm the National Congress building in Brasilia on Jan. 8, 2023.
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Populism has been unleashed. We’re beyond the stop-gap measures of small-step reform or pragmatic centrist liberalism. What’s next? We’re about to find out.
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There have been several failed attempts to dilute government influence over the BBC chair.
Nadhim Zahawi has been sacked as Conservative chairman.
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The prime minister’s pledge to bring integrity to public office could become a stick to beat him with – just like ‘back to basics’ became for John Major.
Allegations of bullying and misconduct are a worrying sign for British democracy.
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When civil servants and MPs can’t speak up against ministers, they can’t do their jobs properly.
Resignation honours are an historic, yet contested, tradition in British politics. Boris Johnson’s were always going to add to the controversy.
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The prospect of Boris Johnson and Liz Truss adding peers to the House of Lords has reopened a knotty debate that never quite gets resolved.
New prime minister, Rishi Sunak, is the latest to take on the leading role in this unravelling Shakespearean drama.
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Shakespeare often portrayed crises of legitimacy and reflected on the politics of his day but the Tories might not fare so well in a modern production.
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Sunak is the first person of colour to take the top post. But he faces a host of problems at home, as well as a Conservative Party tearing itself apart.
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It has been a short but very eventful journey to the top for a man who has only been in parliament since 2015.
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The Conservative Party is hopelessly stuck in the 1980s, and it may yet be the undoing of Liz Truss as prime minister.
Many populist politicians do better in elections than polling suggests they will.
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Brazil’s Bolsonaro has done better than expected in the first round of Brazil’s presidential election. An expert discusses why populism gets votes.
Saudi Arabian crown prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud welcomes British prime minister Boris Johnson in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on March 16 2022.
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An energy crisis means the world is less likely to call out Saudi Arabia’s human rights abuses, an expert argues.
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A new prime minister is in place – but is now a good time to go to the polls?
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Johnson’s leadership during the pandemic has been characterised by failures of governance and breaches of ethics.