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Written by Molly Gray, Lead Photographer, BA Politics and International Relations. Zack Polanski was elected leader of the Green Party over a year ago in September 2025. In that time, the party has tripled in size, growing from 68,000 members to over 220,000, and has had its two
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Written by Mohammed Arman Rahman, BA Politics and International Relations. Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has faced scrutiny over his financial affairs following reports that he received an undeclared £5 million gift from cryptocurrency investor Christopher Harborne in April 2024. The gift became a subject of public controversy in April
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Written by James Albero, BA International Relations. What happened at RAF Fairford remains unclear, with counter-terrorism officers continuing to investigate the incident and establish a motive as of 7 October. Meanwhile, officials have offered competing narratives: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio asserting on Fox News that a ‘clearly
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Written by Ayah Abu Mraheel, National News Section Editor, BA History and Politics. From 'Sir Kid Starver' to student encampments, the proscription of Palestine Action and the trial of the Filton 24, a genocide thousands of miles away has proved impossible to contain within the Middle East. Since
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Written by Isabel Balkhi, MA Social Anthropology and Persian. The Green Party’s Hannah Spencer achieved a historic win in the Gorton and Denton by-election on Thursday, February 26th. Defeating both Reform UK and pushing the incumbent Labour Party into third place, the Manchester native secured a surprising majority
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Written by Emilie De Maerschalck, BSc Politics, Philosophy and Economics. On February 13th 2026, three senior judges at the Royal Court of Justice ruled that the UK government acted unlawfully in designating the direct-action group Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation. Crowds outside the court erupted in chants of
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Written by Mahliqa Ali, MA Global Media and Digital Communications. The UK’s driving test backlog has reached a crisis point, with three-quarters of test centres now hitting the 24-week maximum average waiting time to book a practical test, according to data from the Driver and Vehicle Standards
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Written by Kenza Bajjar, Sports & Societies Section Editor, BA Politics and International Relations. On March 1st 2026, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer positively replied to the United States’ request to use British air bases for ‘defensive’ retaliatory strikes against Iran. Only a few hours later, he rescinded that permission,
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Written by Sylvie Topps, LLB Law. Former Labour minister Peter Mandelson has emerged at the centre of the fallout from the second release of the so-called ‘Epstein Files.’ After more than four decades at the heart of Labour Party politics and UK economic policy, Mandelson is now under criminal
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Siddhant Pawar, BSc Politics, Philosophy and Economics One of the world’s most widely used social media platforms, X, has come under scrutiny in recent weeks following the illicit use of its AI model, Grok, to undress and create pornographic deepfake images of women and children. Ofcom, the UK’s
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By Anya Shah, BA Politics and International Relations In January 2026, the UK government found itself entangled in a growing transatlantic dispute after President Donald Trump pressured Greenland, a self-governing territory within the Kingdom of Denmark, to become part of the United States. This statement created an uproar across
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By Charlotte Allex, BSc Politics, Philosophy and Economics While Reform UK is currently the most popular party in the UK, YouGov favourability polling suggests that Nigel Farage’s far-right party may potentially be running out of steam. Since August 2025, favourability for the Reform leader has dropped from 32%