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Sunak’s comments about migrants from Syria, Afghanistan shows exactly why the UK should be offering them protection.
Steve Endacott’s AI Steve would be the first AI MP if elected.
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AI Steve promises to ‘reinvent democracy’.
Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer have entered the final days of the election campaign.
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The use of ‘surrender’ calls the democratic process into question.
Sunak announcing the election in the rain.
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The impact of this election on the official record will be significant, shaping both the immediate political landscape and future historical documentation.
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All manifestos lack the kind of preventive mental health strategy that will stem the rising tide of mental illness.
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Farage may be setting the scene for complaints of election rigging when the results come in.
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Navigating the 21st-century electoral map is not straightforward for political parties and the politicians asking for people’s votes.
You know that feeling when you’re on your plane and every time you open your mouth, dozens of people write down everything you say? Oh, you don’t?
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People with higher power and status are less good at reading others – and there’s an unexpected explanation.
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Nursery education in the UK has gone from state-funded service to lucrative private enterprise.
The entrance to Workington harbour, with the fells of the Lake District beyond.
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Research has long shown that globally, left-behind communities are less likely to vote in either local or general elections, largely because they feel neglected by the political process.
Craig Williams is running in Montgomeryshire & Glyndwr but no longer for the Conservatives.
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When the serious melds with the absurd, it’s easy to react in the wrong way.
I brought my massive lead, where did everybody go?
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An expected low turnout could threaten Labour’s poll lead.
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The Equality Act does not explicitly state what a man or woman is, or cover non-binary identities.
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Almost half of children in Sweden with separated parents now split their time equally between the two households.
Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar.
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With independence’s waning relevance, Labour is set to sweep up disillusioned SNP voters.
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Its golden age as a seaside town may be over, but left behind places like Clacton are not lacking in pride.
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The ‘skivers against strivers’ view of welfare keeps people in poverty feeling ashamed and isolated.
Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak have finished their final debate.
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Sunak referred to “I” and “me” while Starmer was more likely to say “we” and “us”.
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The Conservatives campaigned against changing the voting system in 2011, but it could have saved them from a potential wipeout at this election.
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Sinn Féin won in 2019 by just 57 votes and the Ulster Unionist Party hopes to overturn that tiny majority.
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Children’s interests need to be represented in politics – here’s how that could happen.
Everybody say…“my dad was a toolmaker!”
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Interviews with former MPs show the party machine can end up crushing their dreams of representing working-class voters.
This anonymised image of FGC-9 creator ‘JStark1809’ was posted online with the gun’s designs in 2020.
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Growing numbers of insurgents, terrorists and extremists are using the FGC-9 3D-printed gun. Here’s what I learned about the man who created it, and the dark world he inhabited
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Questions were posed on gambling, gender and out-of-work benefits.
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Research shows that 16-year-olds are able to make reasoned political decisions.