Artist Lucy Sparrow’s 2016 exhibition Shoplifting, at London’s Lawrence Alkin Gallery, highlighted the most shoplifted items from UK supermarkets.
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The past 300 years show us that shoplifting is a crime rooted in complex societal as well as economic issues. But who deserves our sympathy: the robbers or the robbed?
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Instead of focusing on the people sending out the propaganda, we should turn our attention to those who receive it.
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Arguments for electoral reform in the UK just got stronger with a low Labour vote delivering a massively disproportionate number of seats.
The Conservatives have lost the general election.
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The Conservative party has been voted out of office in a Labour landslide.
Follow along with The Conversation’s coverage of the general election results.
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Farage may be setting the scene for complaints of election rigging when the results come in.
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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 Conservatives campaigned against changing the voting system in 2011, but it could have saved them from a potential wipeout at this election.
Some potholes are deep and cause problems for cyclists.
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Will Labour’s pothole politics provide the meaningful infrastructure investment desperately needed in Britain?
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Farage and the Mail were previously close ideological bedfellows.
Nigel Farage, leader of Reform UK, at the party’s economic policy launch on June 10 2024.
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Winning just a few seats would mean Reform would qualify for ‘short money’ – public funding for its operations – and would no longer have to rely on its own small donations pool.
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Boundary changes are making this election difficult to map, so we turned to the census.
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Making a ‘boring’ campaign more exciting, or just distracting from the issues that matter most?
Nigel Farage in one of his 10 appearances on Question Time in the last decade.
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The top five most frequent non-politician panellists all write for The Spectator.
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Data from Ukip’s performance in 2017 shows that once a certain tipping point is passed, Reform is indeed a significant threat to the Tories.
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The prime minister attempted to play the populist and ended up playing into the hands of Nigel Farage.
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The day’s agenda was already set by Nigel Farage, hours before the two party leaders stepped on stage.
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Research from political science shows that rightwing voters respond to narratives that harken back to a better time.
Nigel Farage, former leader of the UK Independence Party, speaks during the National Conservatism conference in Brussels on April 16, 2024.
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Trying to silence the radical right isn’t the way forward. Not only is it likely to backfire, it will probably galvanize the movement’s leaders.
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Extremists are not ‘capturing’ our systems – they are part of them.