Category: News
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Image credits: Wikimedia Commons The Gorton and Denton byelection was destined to be significant. A Labour heartland in Manchester, with students and graduates, white working-class voters inthe remains of a declining industrial base, and a significant Muslim population – amicrocosm of Labour’s key supporters in 2024. It should have been a forgone conclusion – yet,…
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Pictured: Zohran Mamdani and Kathy Hochul Image credits: Wikimedia Commons [edited] Often in politics, we have a burning desire to ensure that we elect people who are both genuine, and dependable when it counts. The caricature of the establishment pawn, of barking loudly without any bite, is all too engrained in our minds. This uncertainty…
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Image credits: RawPixel “We have just days to stop Reform and make hope normal again” are the words of Hannah Spencer, the Mancunian plumber, councillor, and now Green Party candidate for the byelection in Gorton and Denton. She was selected by her local party members last Thursday to fight for the former seat of ex-Labour…
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Pictured: Suella Braverman (Wikimedia Commons) and Robert Jenrick (Flickr) [edited] Does British Politics think it’s the lead up to Christmas? Because it seems that they are running an advent calendar. Every day we wake up to another Conservative Party MP defecting to Reform UK and joining Nigel Farage’s hate driven regime. The most recent candidate…
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Image credits: Performance Digital Following the implementation of the world’s first social media ban for young people in Australia in December 2025, British Technology Secretary Liz Kendall has established a three-month consultative body which will consider the relative merits of implementing a similar ban for British under-16s. The body (backed by the support of 60…
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Pictured: Donald Trump and Keir Starmer Image credits: Flickr Following the release of Trump’s 20-point plan for the demilitarisation of the Gaza strip in September 2025, it appears highly likely that Keir Starmer will join the US President’s ‘Board of Peace’, which intends to oversee the execution of the plan. This follows the announcement of…
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Image credits: Wikimedia Commons Conflict and protests in Iran, alongside unrest in Venezuela, have welcomed the New Year and sparked debates globally about the role of the US in international affairs, the will of the people, and to what extent oil and the economy inspire violence. Subject to a tyrannical and violent crackdown against protests…
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Image credits: Flickr In another event that is symptomatic of the downfall of the United States under the Trump administration, Renee Nicole Good was murdered within her vehicle by an ICE agent. For those who don’t know, ICE is the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency that, under the instruction of President Trump have…
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Image credits: Warwick PPE Society George Finch’s visit to campus went as many expected, with divisive language, blatant racist dogwhistles and simplistic answers, characteristic of Finch’s rhetoric. He is an unserious and cynical politician who spent 15 minutes talking about the local issues that impact the people he represents, and the rest of the hour…
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Image Credits: Flickr The Labour Government is implementing plans to change the law in order to lower the voting age from 18 to 16, planning to get this through in time for the next General Election, which will at the latest be in 2029. This is part of a package of electoral reform being introduced…