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The police response to the murder of Henry Nowak has triggered a heated transatlantic debate.
The Guardian Politics
The principle underlying the release of the Mandelson papers is that officials are always ‘on the record’ – but our leaders must be able to speak their minds freelyDid you know a Cabinet Office minister commiserated with Peter Mandelson on his being sacked as ambassador to Washington, saying that he was “so sorry”? How could Darren Jones possibly sympathise with a friend who lost his job? Yet his sympathy was not even on the public record, in the 1500 pages of new revelations about the Mandelson
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The US vice president wrote the "only response is righteous anger" when referring to Henry Nowak's death on X.
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Actors have had their voices cloned by an AI fueled disinformation campaign that's targeting Armenia.
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Lucy Powell calls for tougher laws to tackle misinformation and says Reform UK has benefited from bots and troll farms Reform UK is destabilising British democracy by spreading divisive material that is being amplified by bots and troll farms, Labour’s deputy leader has said.Lucy Powell called for tighter laws on social media giants to tackle misinformation, arguing the online space was “open to wealthy individuals, and bad state actors”. Continue reading...
BBC Politics
Getting children to school is becoming a thorny issue for councils to deal with.
The Guardian Politics
Anger and distress at the treatment of the stabbed teenager is widely shared. But the online amplification of myths and grievances must be tackledTo learn of the last minutes of Henry Nowak’s life would be shocking and distressing under any circumstances. The stabbed teenager begged officers for help, as they handcuffed him before realising their mistake. To watch those final moments, on the police body-cam footage released this week, is all the more immediate, and unbearable. The outrage is wid
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11 Sikh MPs say the killing was about "a man carrying an offensive weapon and committing a brutal murder".
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BBC Politics
The attorney general suggested some other politicians' policies on small boats amounted to letting people "drown in the sea".
The Guardian Politics
Ten years after the vote, our economy is battered – and our national conversation darkens by the day. Still, there is reason for hopeWhen the anniversary comes, later this month, few will be in the mood to look back. All the political talk will be of the Makerfield byelection, of the future of this government and this prime minister. And yet, it would be wise to reflect on what happened on 23 June 2016 – if only because the choices Keir Starmer and his would-be successors face, indeed the entire
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Omar is married to a British woman, has a British son and was given a single non-custodial sentence nine years ago. Nonetheless, the Home Office was determined to deport him – whatever the costA year ago, Omar was living in the UK with his British wife and was determined to be a positive, consistent presence for his 10-year-old son, a British citizen from his first marriage. Omar is devoted to his child and has always been committed to guiding him to adulthood.But today, Omar, 40, lives in Egypt
The Guardian Politics
Compare his response, or lack of, to three murders over the past decade – Jo Cox, Sarah Everard and Henry NowakWhich murder victim’s ambulance does the would-be statesman chase? Can you be said to “speak for England” if there are other times you wimp out on speaking at all, either out of self-preservation or moral smallness, or just not actually giving much of a toss? The questions arise after Nigel Farage moved himself into pole position with an explicitly incendiary speech in the wake of the a
BBC Politics
What stood out from the Question Time exchanges between candidates in the Makerfield by-election?
BBC Politics
Russian incursions into UK defences risk crossing a line, Chief of the Defence Staff Sir Richard Knighton tells the BBC.
The Guardian Politics
Andy Burnham takes round one of the big byelection bout while Reform’s Rob Kenyon takes aim at himselfSeconds out … Round one. In the left corner we have the middleweight King of the North … Andy Burnham. In the far-right corner we have the total lightweight … Rob “The Plumber” Kenyon. On the undercard, we have three nonentities we can barely bring ourselves to mention. Mike “The Tory” Winstanley, Sarah “The Green” Wakefield and Jake “The Lib Dem” Austin. And if you think these three are dopey,
BBC Politics
It said it was "unacceptable" the Home Office could not keep track of all whose asylum claims had failed.
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Ben Goldsborough says Karl Catchpole's posts are "unacceptable".
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The prime minister's future has been called into question following poor election results for Labour.