About 200 demonstrators staging a sit-in against the war in Gaza were arrested on Capitol Hill Tuesday, according to U.S. Capitol Police, a day before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was…
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Conservative MP Lee Anderson Claims He Was ‘Guaranteed’ Job to Defect
Conservative Party deputy chairman Lee Anderson claims he was offered a financial incentive to defect to another party. Mr Anderson alleges he was offered a job worth the equivalent of…
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From partygate to wallpapergate, Boris Johnson has never been far from controversy. The former prime minister stepped down from Number 10 in July 2022, saying: “No one in politics is remotely indispensable”. Speaking outside Downing…
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David Cameron’s Return Can’t Hide the Conservatives’ Drift Towards the Hard Right
David Cameron’s appointment as Foreign Secretary is window dressing designed to obscure the ‘nasty party’ that the Tories have become once again Political parties are funny things. Sometimes more like…
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Greece’s Opposition Syriza Party Splits as Several Prominent Members Defect
Greece’s main opposition party has suffered a split after a left-wing faction announced it was breaking away, accusing the party’s recently elected leader of abandoning its core ideology for a…
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Conservative Activist Uses Civil War-Era Law to Challenge US Corporate Diversity
Sept 25 (Reuters) – The anti-affirmative action activist behind the successful U.S. Supreme Court challenge to race-conscious college admissions policies is trying to use a Civil War-era law designed to protect formerly enslaved Black…
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The Guardian View on the Conservative Conference: an Exercise in Diverting Blame for Failure
The Conservative party that gathers in Manchester for its annual conference this week is exhausted, divided and intellectually bankrupt. The constitutional basis on which Rishi Sunak governs is solid, but his electoral…
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Criticism of Egypt’s government is regularly voiced from abroad, but almost never from within the country, infamous as its security apparatus is for brutal crackdowns on political activists. Several recent cases indicate that activists’ families in…
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Samoan Climate Activist Welcomes UN’s Recognition of Children’s Rights
A young Samoan climate activist says the UN’s new guidance on children’s rights to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment is “the first step to global change”. The UN Committee…
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Conservatives Have Already Written a Climate Plan for Trump’s Second Term
Hundreds of conservative operatives outlined a plan that Donald Trump, or any Republican, could use to purge climate action from the federal government. Conservative groups have crafted a plan for…