Category: News
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Image Credits: Wikimedia Commons Following yet more disputes with the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) over increased pay for resident doctors in the UK, the British Medical Association (BMA) has announced yet more strikes to protest against unsatisfactory pay and working conditions since 2023. NHS bosses have described the strikes (which will take…
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Pictured: Nigel Farage Image credits: Flickr New racism allegations have been presented against Nigel Farage, the current leader of the Reform UK political party, in the form of statements from his former classmates. At least 20 of his former classmates at Dulwich College came forward with reports that Farage made discriminatory statements, which he referred…
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Pictured: Rachel Reeves Image credits: Flickr On the 26th of November 2025, Rachel Reeves, MP for Leeds West and Chancellor of the Exchequer, released the Labour government’s latest budget plan for the British economy. The budget has prompted backlash from all sides of the British political spectrum and has shown just how divided our country…
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Pictured: Shabana Mahmood Image Credits: James Whatling via Wikimedia Commons On the 17th of November, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood announced government plans to radically change the asylum system, telling MPs the current situation is “out of control and unfair”. It is clear that Labour’s focus has drifted from evidence-based asylum statistics and issues that matter most…
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Pictured: Michael D. Higgins and Catherine Connolly Image Credits: Wikimedia Commons On Friday, 24th October 2025, the Irish presidential election took place to elect the person who will follow in the steps of the highly popular President Michael D. Higgins. With 3 candidates on the ballot, the Independent candidate Catherine Connolly, Fine Gael’s Heather Humphreys,…
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Image Credits: Heute.at On the 4th of November 2025 New York City elected a new mayor into office: Zohran Mamdani. A democrat, and a self-proclaimed democratic socialist, Mamdani won the mayoral election race with over 50% of the vote against the former state governor Andrew Cuomo and Republican party candidate Curtis Sliwa. Mamdani’s victory has…
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Image Credits: Wikimedia Commons In what can only be described as a historic moment in Welsh politics, Plaid Cymru defeated the Labour Party in the Caerphilly by-election on Thursday 23rd October. On his fourteenth attempt at the seat, Lindsay Whittle will be the new Member of the Senedd (MS) for Caerphilly, until the next election…
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In their 2024 manifesto ‘Our Contract With You’, Nigel Farage’s Reform Party committed itself to leaving the European Convention on Human Rights in order to ‘tackle immigration’ if they were to win the next election, which now seems likely. According to a YouGov poll, heading into the Conservative Party conference Reform polled the highest of…
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Image credits: Wikimedia Commons Since Zack Polanski was elected as leader of the Green Party of England and Wales in September, the party has seen a more than 50% increase in membership – from 65,000 members to over 100,000. This increase has been driven partially by disillusionment with Labour among left-wing voters, but also by…
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Image credits: PickPik The Labour government is planning to implement a new form of ID, a digital ID, possession of which will be mandatory, and failure to have one will presumably be criminalised. This ID Card will be stored on our phones, and operate to prove identity, age, and residency status, with the stated aim…