48 h. ago 'Racist' Reform and Tory rants called out by Black MP for dividing Britain

Labour MP Calvin Bailey who served more than 24 years in the Royal Air Force has hit out at 'racist' comments from Reform UK MP Sarah Pochin and Tory MP Robert Jenrick

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50 h. ago POLL OF THE DAY: Do you agree with 'frightening' new poll that Starmer's Britain is divided and culture is changing too fast?

Research from King's College London and pollsters Ipsos found that eight in ten said they felt the nation was divided - up five percentage points from two years ago and ten points from 2020.

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53 h. ago Divided Britain: UK is riven with divisions over immigration and trans rights as national pride plummets, according to new poll

Researchers from King's College London (KCL) said post-Brexit division appeared to have ‘morphed into’ party political and other splits around immigration and so-called culture wars

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2 d. ago Heritage Foundation leader apologizes for backing Tucker Carlson’s interview with white nationalist

Kevin Roberts, whose group pushed Project 2025, had defended ex-Fox News host’s talk with Nick FuentesThe leader of the conservative thinktank behind Project 2025 apologized for supporting a white nationalist amid turmoil on the right over the mainstreaming of extremist ideology, but is resisting calls to resign.Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation, previously defended the former Fox host Tucker Carlson for having Hitler fan Nick Fuentes on his podcast without pushing back on his white supremacist views. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Two people seriously injured and attacker arrested after car driven into pedestrians and cyclists on French island – Europe live

Aide to far-right National Rally MP among the five people injured after car ‘deliberately’ rammed into pedestrians and cyclists on Île d’OléronAt least nine people were injured, the mayor of Dolus-d’Oleron, Thibault Brechkoff, said in a post on Facebook.He stressed the “deliberate” nature of the incident, and said that local authorities were setting up a crisis centre to coordinate their response. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Two people in intensive care after car driven into pedestrians on French island – Europe live

Suspect is in custody after car ‘deliberately’ rammed into pedestrians and cyclists on Île d’Oléron; aide to far-right National Rally MP among the injuredAt least nine people were injured, the mayor of Dolus-d’Oleron, Thibault Brechkoff, said in a post on Facebook.He stressed the “deliberate” nature of the incident, and said that local authorities were setting up a crisis centre to coordinate their response. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Grand National 2026 hotel & ticket packages available now with Aintree deals for the big race from just £169

RACING fans, hold your horses this is the one you’ve been waiting for.  We’re giving you the ultimate tip to get trackside for the world's most famous race, the Grand National. That’s right, you can bag yourself an unmissable ticket and hotel package to be right there at Aintree, soaking up the glamour and hearing...

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4 d. ago Two people in intensive care and multiple injured after car driven into pedestrians on French island – Europe live

Suspect is in custody after car intentionally rammed into pedestrians and cyclists on island of Oléron; aide to far-right National Rally MP among the injuredAt least nine people were injured, the mayor of Dolus-d’Oleron, Thibault Brechkoff, said in a post on Facebook.He stressed the “deliberate” nature of the incident, and said that local authorities were setting up a crisis centre to coordinate their response. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago The real vs fake grass turf war dividing Britain: We reveal what an artificial lawn does to your house price

Battlelines are being drawn in gardens across Britain as the number of people using artificial lawn or paving over gardens rises.

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4 d. ago The real grass vs fake turf war dividing Britain: We reveal what an artificial lawn really does to your house price

Battlelines are being drawn in gardens across Britain as the number of people using artificial lawn or paving over gardens rises.

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6 d. ago From the childcare scandal to regressive ‘tough on crime’ policies, Australia is failing to protect its children | Anne Hollonds

There is an urgent need to make child safety, rights and wellbeing a national priority and to fix the accountability gaps putting them at riskLooking back at the past five years since I began in the role of national children’s commissioner, I am struck by how difficult it has been throughout this time to get political attention on the unmet needs of our most vulnerable children, who continue to be “left behind”.Far too many of these children end up in the overwhelmed child protection and justice systems because of poverty, disabilities, health and learning problems, discrimination and disadvantage. Continue reading...

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1 week ago US government allowed and even helped US firms sell tech used for surveillance in China, AP finds

Even while warning about national security and human rights abuse, the U.S. government across five Republican and Democratic administrations has repeatedly allowed and even actively helped American firms to sell technology to Chinese police, government and surveillance companies, an Associated Press investigation has found

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1 week ago Hadush Kebatu, Epping sex offender, deported to Ethiopia, Home Office confirms

The Home Office said Kebatu, who was wrongly freed from prison on Friday, was put on a flight to Ethiopia on Tuesday night and arrived on Wednesday Hadush Kebatu has arrived in Ethiopia after being deported from the UK with no right to return, the Home Office has confirmed.The Ethiopian national was wrongly freed from HMP Chelmsford on Friday morning instead of being sent to an immigration detention centre. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Prison guards told fugitive sex offender to find his own way to deportation centre... then gave him directions to train station

Hadush Kebatu, jailed for sexually assaulting a teenage girl, should have been transferred from HMP Chelmsford to an immigration removal centre on Friday ahead of his deportation.

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2 w. ago Manhunt continues to find migrant sex offender freed from prison by mistake

Ethiopian national Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu was freed from HMP Chelmsford on Friday instead of being transferred to an immigration detention centre

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2 w. ago Pregnant women report medical neglect in ICE detention, rights groups say

Women reported miscarriages, delayed care, being shackled, as well as held in solitary confinement, letter saysPregnant women have reported bleeding, miscarriages, being shackled and other instances of medical neglect while in US immigration custody, according to a group of prominent civil rights organizations.The groups – which include the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and its Louisiana chapter, the National Immigration Project, Robert F Kennedy Human Rights, Sanctuary of the South and Sanctuary Now Abolition Project – sent a letter to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Senate committees on Wednesday, describing interviews with more than a dozen women. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago The inventor of Communism 'exaggerated' class divides in Victorian Britain before condemning the 'cruelty' of capitalism, study finds

University of Cambridge historian Emily Chung discovered that Manchester was not nearly as divided into rich and poor enclaves as Engels had suggested.

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2 w. ago When populists win in Prague, that’s nothing peculiarly ‘east European’. It’s the new normal of the western world | Timothy Garton Ash

The likely new Czech government will add one more state opposed to the EU’s green deal and migration and asylum pactIf you open your window on a quiet street in central Prague, the first sound you hear is the trrrrk-trrrrk-trrrrk of carry-on suitcases trundling across paving stones, as tourists walk to their hotel or Airbnb. (The Czech capital had 8 million visitors last year.) As they trek around Prague Castle and fill the Old Town bars with cheerful chatter, these visitors – many of them probably unaware of the recent election victory of rightwing populist nationalist parties – may think this is just another normal European country. And you know what: they will be right.Some more extensively informed newspaper commentators, reaching for an attention-grabbing generalisation, tell a different story. This is eastern Europe reverting to type, they say. After Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, now Czechia as well! The truth is more interesting – and more worrying.Timothy Garton Ash is a his...

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2 w. ago When Czech populists win, that’s nothing peculiarly ‘east European’. It’s the new normal of the western world | Timothy Garton Ash

The likely new government in Prague will add one more state opposed to the EU’s green deal and migration and asylum pactIf you open your window on a quiet street in central Prague, the first sound you hear is the trrrrk-trrrrk-trrrrk of carry-on suitcases trundling across paving stones, as tourists walk to their hotel or Airbnb. (The Czech capital had 8 million visitors last year.) As they trek around Prague Castle and fill the Old Town bars with cheerful chatter, these visitors – many of them probably unaware of the recent election victory of rightwing populist nationalist parties – may think this is just another normal European country. And you know what: they will be right.Some more extensively informed newspaper commentators, reaching for an attention-grabbing generalisation, tell a different story. This is eastern Europe reverting to type, they say. After Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, now Czechia as well! The truth is more interesting – and more worrying.Timothy Garton Ash is a...

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3 w. ago Queer and trans immigrants allege forced labor and sexual assault in Ice facility: ‘I was treated worse than an animal’

At the South Louisiana Ice Processing Center in Basile, detainees say they were forced into hard labor – and sexually assaulted and stalked by an assistant wardenQueer and trans immigrants at a detention facility in south Louisiana have alleged that they faced sexual harassment and abuse, medical neglect and coerced labor by staff at the facility, and that they were repeatedly ignored or faced retaliation for speaking out.In multiple legal complaints, immigrants detained at the South Louisiana Ice Processing Center (SLIPC) in Basile, Louisiana, said they were recruited into an unsanctioned work program that forced them to perform hard manual labor for as little as $1 per day. Detainees also alleged that queer people were targeted by an assistant warden who stalked, harassed and sexually assaulted them. Continue reading...

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