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Protests and counter-protests expected at asylum hotels across EnglandDozens of protests outside hotels used as temporary accommodation for asylum seekers are expected over the weekend across…

Bangkok, Thailand – A court is poised to decide whether Thailand’s most consequential and controversial political figure of the past 25 years, Thaksin Shinawatra, insulted the…

Number of asylum seekers housed in UK hotels up 8% on 12 months ago at end of Labour’s first year in governmentA total of 32,059 asylum…

The deputy prime minister, Angela Rayner, has been hit with a legal challenge after she overruled a local council to approve a hyperscale datacentre on green…

Rachel Reeves is in favour of radical tax reform – or at least she was in 2018. “We need a radical overhaul of the tax system…

Government looking at contingency options for housing asylum seekers after Epping hotel court rulingSecurity minister Dan Jarvis has said the government is looking at contingency options…

Ed Davey calls for review of terrorism legislation after Palestine Action arrestsDavey is also calling for a review of the law which has seen Palestine Action…

When the director of the National Institutes of Health this week said funding for the development of mRNA vaccines – the backbone of Covid vaccines –…

Ukraine cause akin to second world war allies, Starmer says before Trump-Putin Alaska talksUkraine is fighting for the same values as the allies did in the…

In the 1970s, private landlordism in the UK was a fringe part of the market – and a dying one. With council housing plentiful and house…