Category: News
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Image credits: Live and Let Fly In a notice issued on the 9th December 2025, by the US Customs and Border Protection Agency, the Trump Administration has announced that those wishing to travel to the US as tourists will have to reveal their social media activity from the previous five years to be allowed into the country. Another…
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Image Credits: Wikimedia Commons Reform UK recently received a donation of £9 million from the former Conservative donor Christopher Harborne, an international Thai-British figure who is a leading cryptocurrency investor, who also holds interests in defence and aviation. The donation was record-breaking, serving as the largest ever donation to a political party from a living…
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Pictured: Nathan Gill Image credits: Wikimedia Commons Another day, another scandal regarding Reform UK. The charges are stacking up against the far-right party, this time regarding the ex-leader of the Reform UK Wales branch, Nathan Gill. Gill pleaded guilty and has since been jailed for accepting money in return for taking part in a pro-Russian…
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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…