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Conservative rival Shaun Bailey gave the mayor a much harder fight than expected.
Nicola Sturgeon wants Scotland out, Boris Johnson hopes to hold it all together and Mark Drakeford believes in the best of both worlds.
Despite often seismic political upheavals over the years, most Middle Eastern royal families have been able to weather the storms.
Another red wall seat falls to the party of government, leaving Labour out in the cold once more.
When should you tune in for the big announcements over the weekend?
The IS ‘caliphate’ centred on Mosul, had its own justice system served, efficiently, by its own police force.
Why would a group of people decide to spend months and years living semi-naked in squalid conditions?
The two big constitutional questions of the age have caused complicated divisions that help explain party support.
Welsh Labour is on course to win but who else will secure seats in the Senedd?
From councils to devolved parliaments, a bumper crop of contests is happening on the same day.
Both at home and internationally Modi is facing intense scrutiny and criticism as the COVID death toll mounts.
Turnout in the first votes was just 15% and barely rose in the next. Now a third election looms.
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.
Human Rights Watch says Israeli action amounts apartheid in certain areas. But what does that really mean?
The current government has been keen to centralise but has seen the value of local support during the pandemic.
The catastrophic surge in infections is a result of government mismanagement, cronyism and hubris.
A transcript of episode 13 of The Conversation Weekly podcast, including new research on neuroplasticity in the brain.
This is a transcript of episode 12 of The Conversation Weekly podcast, including a story on the reasons why Kenyan women who join Al-Shabaab.
The Electoral Commission says there are “reasonable grounds to suspect an offence or offences may have occurred”.
The range of arranged unions that now exist can be thought of as a spectrum, and younger generations tend to prefer a love connection
Ahead of the Scottish election on May 6, the former Scottish Labour leader explains what’s at stake – and what could happen next.
An incoherent Brexit policy has ended the DUP leader’s career – but her party can’t pretend they didn’t giver her full support.
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.
Despite clear concerns about the global impact of problem betting, more governments are making it easier to access