6 h. ago Your Party members vote to make name permanent at tense first conference

Liverpool gathering lays bare bitter divisions within new party founded by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah SultanaThe new leftwing party founded by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana will be called Your Party after a vote by members, but its weekend conference laid bare bitter divisions.Just over 37% of members voted for the name Your Party, provisionally adopted when it was launched earlier this year, to become permanent. The votes for others on the shortlist were 25.23% to be called For The Many, 25.23% for Popular Alliance and 14.19% for Our Party. Continue reading...

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13 h. ago Dining across the divide: ‘I was nervous – was he going to attack me for being a snowflake?’

A Green-party globalist and a right-of-centre Tory clash over immigration. Would they see eye to eye over reparations?Peter, 34, LondonOccupation Former civil servant, now a student, studying public health Continue reading...

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54 h. ago Green Party hail Daily Star's 'Lettuce' Liz Truss as 'permanent' political icon

The Daily Star's world-famous 'Lettuce' Liz Truss is being used as inspiration by the Green Party who described it as a 'perfect metaphor' for the chaos of the ex-PM's reign

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4 d. ago Reeves takes aim at ‘hypotherapist’ Zack Polanksi during Budget address

Rachel Reeves made a jab at “hypnotherapist” Zack Polanski whilst announcing her Budget on Wednesday (26 November).

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4 d. ago Reeves takes aim at ‘hypotherapist’ Green leader Zack Polanksi during Budget address

Rachel Reeves made a jab at “hypnotherapist” Zack Polanski whilst announcing her Budget on Wednesday (26 November).

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5 d. ago Strictly star Neil Jones and Greens leader Zack Polanski back our appeal

“Let’s shine a light on those left in the shadows”, says Polanski, as Jones reminds us “homelessness can happen to anyone”

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6 d. ago Why did young men move left in this month’s US elections? | Cory Alpert

Democrats’ relentless focus on affordability welcomed in a group that had been seduced by an ecosystem of huckstersJust a few months ago, it seemed that the political landscape was changing permanently, with young people shifting right – especially young men. Democrats spun up a vortex of efforts to win them back, but they often appeared to be flailing. This month’s elections, however, told a different story.Young men in the US face a political identity crisis. It should not be controversial to say that the world that many were promised as children has not come to fruition. Two decades of war and a turbulent economy have combined with a massively changing workforce. Young men’s disaffection should come as no real surprise.Cory Alpert is a PhD researcher at the University of Melbourne looking at the impact of AI on democracy. He served in the Biden-Harris administration for three years Continue reading...

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8 d. ago ‘America is British’. Heaven is ‘a socialist state’. David Attenborough is ‘anti

He was a Conservative party big-hitter who wrote speeches for David Cameron and worked with Boris Johnson before he suddenly jumped ship. He talks family, flags and why Nigel Farage is ‘top dog’What I struggle to understand, I say to Danny Kruger in his office at Reform UK HQ, is why a serious Conservative, with a glittering future like yours, would defect to a party led by Nigel Farage? Indeed, the defection of Kruger, a heavy-weight on the Conservative right who served on the front bench and been tipped as a possible future leader, was seen as a major coup for Reform, catching commentators off-guard. Unlike previous deserters – Andrea Jenkyns, Jake Berry, Nadine Dorries – he was a sitting MP in a safe Tory seat. Plus, he was untarnished by the boisterous excesses of Boris Johnson and Liz Truss.But we’ve been around the houses a few times on this. He’s talked about his philosophy (Burkean), his Christianity (evangelical), thrown out words like “family”, “community”, “nation”. ...

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9 d. ago Former local election candidate in Stockport murdered his ex

Martin Suter - a former Green Party member in Stockport - has been jailed for life

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1 week ago The Princess of Wales confirms chandelier earrings are this season's ultimate party piece

Pairing emerald-green velvet and diamonds, the Princess of Wales provides the perfect party inspiration

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1 week ago Chancellor faces calls for wealth tax a week before second Budget

The Chancellor is widely expected to raise taxes on November 26 but is reported to have ruled out a manifesto-busting income tax hike.

Economics

1 week ago The Daily Star's world famous lettuce is 'immortalised' in TV hit Slow Horses

In the latest Slow Horses novel Clown Town, spook chief Diana Taverner appears to refer to the plucky green veg by making a reference to crumpling 'like last week's lettuce'

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1 week ago Will Marjorie Taylor Greene turn the Maga movement against Trump? | Arwa Mahdawi

Whatever her motives, the Republican congresswoman’s ‘revenge tour’ against the president is proving surprisingly effectiveThere are 535 members of Congress; only a dozen or so are household names. If you want to achieve that sort of brand name recognition, there are a few tried-and-tested ways to do so. You can spend years working your way up the ranks until you’re a power-broker like Nancy Pelosi. You can burst on to the scene and dramatically unseat an incumbent like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez did. Or you can go the Marjorie Taylor Greene route and achieve notoriety by being utterly unhinged.Since becoming a congresswoman for Georgia in 2021, Greene has kept herself in the news by spouting conspiracy theories, fighting with colleagues, and being one of Trump’s biggest cheerleaders. In recent months, however, something strange has been happening. Greene has continued to generate headlines, but largely because she has turned on her party and is part of a growing Maga civil war. Green...

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1 week ago Russell Tovey on pride, sexual power and politics: ‘The Green party slogan – make hope normal again – is what we need’

One of the most prolific and popular actors of his generation, he reflects on therapy, homophobia, why he suspects now is the worst time in history for trans people, and his secret life as a geekRussell Tovey’s best characters often seem to have it all together, typically as a barrier to further interrogation. Take his recent projects: in surreal BBC sitcom Juice, Tovey plays Guy, a buttoned-up therapist with a seemingly perfect life, hobbled by an aversion to recklessness. Then there’s the closeted Andrew Waters in award-winning American indie film Plainclothes, a well-respected married man of faith who secretly cruises New York shopping mall toilets. Even in the forthcoming Doctor Who spin-off, The War Between the Land and the Sea, Tovey’s character, Barclay, is an ordinary office clerk who is swept up into a planet-saving mission while trying to keep his family from falling apart. In each performance, Tovey anchors his characters with a beguiling mix of strength, empathy and vuln...

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2 w. ago France is at war with Shein. We should copy its tactics to defeat fast fashion | Nicole Lipman

The dirt-cheap clothing company has opened its first permanent store in Paris – and politicians and workers have united against it Paris is the fashion capital of the world – a paradise of couture and craftsmanship stretching back centuries. The city’s very name connotes luxury and glamour. But last Wednesday, 5 November, a sprawling Shein outlet opened on the sixth floor of the BHV Marais, the historic department store directly across from Paris’s city hall. It’s the Singapore-based ultra-fast-fashion store’s first permanent bricks and mortar retail space, and the first of several permanent outposts Shein plans to open in France in the near future. Many Parisians aren’t happy about it.Shein – launched as SheInside in 2011 in Nanjing, China – is the reprehensible paragon of the ultra-fast-fashion industry. The company sells clothing (and home goods, toys, stationery, cookware, blankets, pet supplies and more) at an unfathomable scale: today’s “new in” page alone lists more than 1,30...

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3 w. ago Green leader says Starmer is ‘not a man I would be willing to work with’

Zack Polanski suggested he doubts whether Sir Keir Starmer will even be an MP at the next election

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3 w. ago 'Being in the Green Party used to feel like being an outsider, but more and more people say that’s exactly what we need in politics'

'People are really hurting at the moment, but it feels like politicians don’t understand how serious things are'

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3 w. ago Green Party gains its first councillor in West London borough as former Labour member joins

Green Party gains its first councillor in West London borough as former Labour member joins  MyLondon

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3 w. ago Inside Green Party surge where one thing is same as polar opposite Nigel Farage

Pollsters have suggested the surge of the Green Party and Reform UK have something in common - social media-savvy operations both appealing to disillusioned voters

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3 w. ago Iris Law puts on a leggy display in a slinky green minidress as she party hops from fashion event to The Running Man bash

The model, 25, who is the daughter of Jude Law and Sadie Frost, showed off her figure in a dazzling green minidress as she partied into the early hours.

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