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Shadow education minister Angela Rayner has received abuse for the way she speaks, just as polticians are accused of failing to represent the people.
The US Senate is up for grabs this year – and Republicans have a serious challenge on their hands.
What’s the worst that could happen after the US election? As ever, “preppers” are ready for the total collapse of society.
60 years ago, Britain and the US believed they were on the same page when it came to Suez. How wrong they were.
Scotland’s failure to meet target illustrate a worldwide problem - the right to adequate heating and energy is not being properly recognised.
The people of Turkey have less and less access to independent news.
British prime minister Anthony Eden justified attacking Egypt as necessary to restrain the country’s ‘dangerous’ leader. We still hear similar things before every Western intervention.
A doctor has been convicted of abusing vulnerable women in his care – because a court finally decided to listen to their stories.
The way evidence and testimony is used in court makes it very hard to prove a relationship is coercive.
Modern life is stressful – here’s how to make your local neighbourhood a haven.
The shock of the financial crash has opened the path for grassroots politics.
The 49 Palestinian Israelis murdered by soldiers in 1956 deserve to be officially remembered.
When Icelanders get fed up with their politicians, they get together and write their own rules.
Recent data on football’s homophobia problem met with both optimism and pessimism. What’s really going on?
There appears to be a revolving door between Rupert Murdoch’s papers and the Conservative Party.
It was 1956 – and for Britain, things would never be the same again.
There are striking parallels between Eden’s handling of Suez and Blair’s march into the Iraq War.
The emerging Brexicon is binary, but this is a deeply complicated situation.
Narendra Modi’s government is drumming up war hysteria on the eve of crucial state elections. The gathering storm threatens India’s increasingly beleaguered democracy.
The EU is tightening security on its own borders.
With a $1 trillion modernisation programme signed off and atomic scientists deeply worried about the future, American policy on nuclear weapons is pretty much business as usual.
The CETA crisis will be resolved before long but the lessons of Wallonia point to a bigger European crisis.
Children in care are criminalised too early – and don’t receive the support they need.
The 39th president’s tenure was marked by honesty, peacemaking and respect for human rights – and yet he’s still the butt of many a joke.