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‘My party has learnt nothing’: Baroness Warsi on Conservatives’ Islamophobia row
We spoke to the former Conservative party chair, Baroness Warsi and asked her why Rishi Sunak saying Lee Anderson was wrong wasn’t good enough.
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Sadiq Khan: Why is Sunak ‘unwilling to call out’ Lee Anderson’s comments ‘which are clearly Islamophobia’?
What does the subject of Lee Anderson’s comments make of all this?
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Lee Anderson doubles down on criticism of Sadiq Khan
Lee Anderson – the MP for Ashfield – says he shouldn’t apologise because he thinks he was right.
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UK has moved ‘million miles’ on LGBT rights but must be fought for says Chris Bryant MP
In 1835, James Pratt and John Smith became the last gay men to be hanged in England, despite appeals for clemency from the magistrate who’d committed them for trial.
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Reading inquest: coroner hears tributes to three men killed
It was in a park on a summers afternoon in Reading in 2020, when Khairi Saadallah stabbed three men to death.
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5m
Russia-Ukraine war: how Ukrainian children are building lives in the UK
Since the invasion two years ago, around two hundred thousand Ukrainians have moved to the UK.
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4m
Bristol Arts funding cuts: how ‘cultural social services’ are hit
This week Birmingham’s artistic institutions warned the city faces ‘cultural deprivation’, after the council announced massive funding cuts to the arts.
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8m
People should be able to protest MPs ‘as long as it’s done respectfully’, says Birmingham activist
We were joined by Naveed Sadiq – an activist from Birmingham.
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Will police tackling protests outside Parliament keep MPs safe?
A government-commissioned review into political violence is calling for police to be given special powers to tackle protests outside Parliament.
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UK household energy bills to fall as Ofgem lowers price cap by 12.3%
One of the many consequences of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was soaring energy costs here.
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16m
Inside the three-year courtroom battle between a Tory donor and former MP
They’re called SLAPPs – legal actions brought by the super rich, “intended to harass, intimidate or financially exhaust opponents.”
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6m
Inside one family court battle over a child now settled in Northern Cyprus
10 years of legal battles, 30 court hearings, 60 court orders and 6 judgements have failed to resolve an embittered parental dispute over the care of one British child.
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Reports of anti-Muslim hate more than tripled since the October 7th, says monitoring agency
Reports of anti-muslim hate have more than tripled since the October 7th Hamas attacks, according to a monitoring agency.
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“I am very careful’, says Labour MP Barry Sheerman after receiving a death threat last year
We spoke to the Labour MP for Huddersfield Barry Sheerman who told the Commons he has to ‘watch where he walks’ after he received a death threat last year.
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Gaza debate chaos: More than 60 MPs call for Speaker to resign
The Commons Speaker, Sir Lindsay Hoyle is fending off calls for his resignation after last night’s chaotic Gaza debate in the Commons.