9 h. ago Labour MP calls for ministers to apologise over historic forced adoption scandal

Around 185,000 children were given up by unmarried mothers between 1949 and 1976 who had been ‘railroaded’ into the decision

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27 h. ago Labour MPs call for Mandelson to be sacked over Epstein relationship

Sir Keir Starmer was urged to get rid of the US ambassador by backbenchers Richard Burgon and Nadia Whittome.

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32 h. ago Labour MPs turn on Starmer after PM backs Mandelson amid growing calls for him to quit over Epstein links

Pressure on Sir Keir Starmer over the Mandelson-Epstein scandal as Labour MPs grow increasingly nervous over defences of the ambassador to the US

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32 h. ago Labour MPs break ranks to call for Lord Mandelson to QUIT over Jeffrey Epstein links

Keir Starmer insisted the US ambassador was 'right' to express regrets after an extraordinary birthday message emerged in which he called the disgraced financier his 'best pal'.

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33 h. ago Who is Peter Mandelson? The controversial Labour grandee who called Epstein his 'best pal'

From Young Communist League member who sold the Morning Star outside Kilburn Tube Station to Tony Blair’s ‘Prince of Darkness’

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36 h. ago CBI boss calls on Chancellor to break Labour’s manifesto tax promise

Rain Newton-Smith warned Rachel Reeves against ‘slavish adherence’ to tax pledges made in the run-up to last year’s general election.

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57 h. ago ‘People say my music helps them heal’: Canada’s First Nations musicians revitalise the powwow

Confronting the historic trauma of forced assimilation, a wave of artists are rejuvenating hyper-diverse Indigenous cultures in the kinds of festivals that were once forbiddenOn a sunny, breezy August afternoon in Mani-Utenam, a reservation on the Quebec coast for the Innu people, a powwow ceremony is under way. Two sets of drummers beat out a steady rhythm while chanting in tandem, as dancers sway in their traditional, colourful regalia, ringing with the sound of small bells attached to their clothing. It is part of Innu Nikamu, one of the largest Indigenous festivals in North America, but this joyful performance is taking place on troubled ground.This was once the site of a residential school where children were taken away from their families to force them to assimilate to western culture and forget their heritage. Active from the 1800s, such schools were run by the Canadian state and the Catholic church, who would inflict severe punishments on children who spoke their Indigenous ...

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3 d. ago Women's rights groups demand answers on how Labour will deliver violence promise

More than 50 organisations working to end violence against women and girls (VAWG) have called for reassurance after Labour came to power vowing to tackle the crisis

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6 d. ago Angela Rayner's constituents say deputy prime minister must go after admitting underpaying stamp duty by £40,000

A number of constituents in Ashton-under-Lyne, where she was re-elected last year with a majority of almost 11,000, called on the Labour MP to resign.

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6 d. ago Domination by Alice Roberts review – a brilliant but cynical history of Christianity

The humanist historian brings objects to life beautifully, but falters when it comes to people and their beliefsDomination tells the story of how a tiny local cult became one of the greatest cultural and political forces in history. Alice Roberts puts the case that the Roman empire lived on in a different form in the church.It is not an original idea – after all the foundation prayer of Christianity says “thy Kingdom come” – but Roberts tells the story from the point of view of individual parishes and even buildings. It’s a revelation, like watching those stop-motion films of how a plant grows and blooms. There’s a section about how a Roman villa might transform into a parish, the long barn providing the footprint, the web of relationships providing the social connection, the very tiles and columns providing the building materials. I can’t think of anyone who writes better about the way objects can speak to us. There’s a passage here describing her joy on grasping wha...

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7 d. ago A California Gold Rush town was like ‘going back in time’. Then came a wildfire

A 19th-century settlement founded by Chinese miners and said to have hosted outlaw Black Bart was devastated by fireShortly after lightning sparked dozens of wildfires in California’s Sierra Nevada foothills this week, author Stephen Provost received news that devastated him.Fire was sweeping through Chinese Camp, a Gold Rush-era town that a group of Chinese miners founded in the 19th century after they were driven out of a nearby settlement. The town’s almost 100 residents were forced to evacuate and news reports showed flames consuming historic buildings. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Labour council leader suspended after allegedly calling Rotherham grooming gang victims 'white trash'

Peterborough City Council leader Dennis Jones allegedly sent the message to another councillor and has now been suspended from the party.

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7 d. ago Deborah Meaden says Angela Rayner Stamp Duty row is distraction from real issues

Deborah Meaden tells LBC's Tom Swarbrick the Angela Rayner stamp duty furore distracts from the real issues facing the country - and calls on Labour to tax the ultra-wealthy more

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1 week ago Minister apologises for calling assisted dying Bill ‘major Government priority’

The Labour frontbencher moved to correct ‘inaccurate information’ as the administration is neutral on the contentious legislation.

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1 week ago City analyst, 28, died days after his ADHD medication was increased as coroner calls on Labour to launch a review into drug

The new warning comes following the death of London banker and musician Jacob Wooderson, originally from Hereford.

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1 week ago Voices: Getting rid of the ECHR won’t stop a single boat of migrants

As New Labour grandees unite with Red Wall Labour MPs to call for the European Court of Human Rights to be reformed – legislation that Nigel Farage wants to scrap – Sean O’Grady says the mainstreaming of the view that it is no longer workable or needed is deeply dishonest

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1 week ago Monica Lennon calls for suspension of rebel Scottish Labour MP to be lifted

EXCLUSIVE: Labour is facing calls to restore the whip to Brian Leishman.

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2 w. ago Now Labour MP joins the calls for Starmer to sack Lord Hermer

Graham Stringer is the first MP within the party to publicly come out against Attorney General Lord Hermer, accusing him of putting international treaties above democracy.

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2 w. ago Asylum is Labour's 'number one priority' says MP as David Blunkett warns it's becoming 'toxic'

Jo White warned that failure to deal with the asylum system would cost Labour at the next general election after Lord David Blunkett called on the PM to be radical and said the issue is 'toxic'

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2 w. ago Veteran Labour councillor quits party claiming he has been 'thrown under a bus' after blowing the whistle on WhatsApp group containing racist, sexist and homophobic 'jokes'

Vincent Ricci, 67, was suspended by Labour for being a member of the so-called Trigger Me Timbers group, featuring key Labour figures in the North-West.

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