Andy Burnham’s revelation that he was prepared “to go all the way” in terms of the UK’s relationship with the EU came as a shock to many. While a commitment to rejoining the EU in the next Labour manifesto is far from a given – and the prime minister’s...
More than 900 wheelchairs donated by two Australian charities for injured children in Gaza have been sitting in warehouses in Jordan for more than 18 months. The charities, and the Jordanian aid organisation storing them, say Israeli restrictions on aid deliveries have kept them out. Israel says it has...
An Israeli-made documentary examining the war in Gaza and allegations of systematic civilian killings has won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival, after receiving a record-breaking standing ovation at its premiere.
NAZA, directed by Israeli filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, was awarded the prize at the...
Donald Trump’s Board of Peace published a 15-point roadmap for Gaza in late July in which Hamas would hand its weapons to a committee of Palestinian technocrats, certified by an international verification body, and Israel would withdraw from the strip in phases. After Israel officially rejected the plan on...
By Nicholas Dickinson, Lecturer in Politics, University of Exeter
Keir Starmer has resigned as leader of the Labour party, and so in time as the UK's prime minister. In the end, despite his numerous assurances that he would fight on, after Andy Burnham's resounding win in the Makerfield byelection, the...
Andrew Norfolk ran into a fire that police, councils and politicians had spent years trying to extinguish quietly. This is the real story of who told the truth, who hid it, and why fear of being called racist became more important than protecting children.
The Reporter Who Wouldn't Stop
In January...
By Louise Thompson, Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Manchester
The byelection in Gorton and Denton has been huge for the Green Party of England and Wales. Hannah Spencer pushed Reform's Matt Goodwin into second place and Labour into third — taking nearly 41% of the vote, a 28-point increase...
Four out of five members of Brazil’s supreme court have voted to convict the former president, Jair Bolsonaro, for plotting a military coup after losing the 2022 election to his left-wing rival, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Bolsonaro has been sentenced to more than 27 years in prison, though...
Hours before meeting Russia’s leader Vladimir Putin in Alaska, Donald Trump said he wanted to see a ceasefire in Ukraine and was “not going to be happy” if it wasn’t agreed today. The US president appears to have left Alaska with no such agreement in place.
“We didn’t get there”,...
Donald Trump’s new international trade tariffs have landed. Some are lower than others, some deals have been done, but overall they are the highest they have been in 100 years.
They are also unprecedented in the era of the rules-based trade system that has been in place since 1945.
So what...
