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Hong Kong fire: bamboo scaffolding or corruption?
The blaze that engulfed seven high-rise residential buildings in Hong Kong’s Tai Po district was the deadliest the city has seen in over 70 years. At…
1 month, 1 week ago
Booming or breaking? The truth about Russia’s war economy
For months after Vladimir Putin’s fullscale invasion of Ukraine, Western leaders predicted Russia’s economy was on the brink of collapse under sancti…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Polanski v Farage: Is the political centre in Britain dead?
As Rachel Reeves prepares to deliver the budget on Wednesday, she faces the political nightmare of having to come back for more tax, having said she …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Wealth tax vs tax cuts: how to fix the UK economy?
With the budget just days away, Rachel Reeves is facing yet another black hole in the public finances - after ditching plans to raise income tax, it’…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Trump's peace plan is to 'surrender' - Ukrainian filmmaker Mstyslav Chernov
US and Russian officials have drafted new proposals to end the Ukraine war but they would appear to require major concessions from President Zelensky…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
'A culture of cover-up': the NHS maternity crisis exposed
The NHS is facing one of its deepest crises - a string of maternity scandals, from Shrewsbury to Nottingham, Oxford to Leeds. Hundreds of babies have…
2 months ago
Starmer vs Streeting: inside the Labour meltdown
Labour is facing an extraordinary rift at the top of government. Health Secretary Wes Streeting has strongly denied claims that he is plotting to ove…
2 months ago
BBC crisis: right-wing coup or bias crackdown?
The BBC is in meltdown: both the Director General Tim Davie and the Head of News Deborah Turness have quit in the same weekend after a leaked memo ac…
2 months ago
Mamdani and Polanski: can a new left undo Trump’s climate reversal?
While COP30 gets underway in Brazil - Donald Trump is ripping up climate policy, blasting his allies for falling for what he calls the ‘world's great…
2 months, 1 week ago
China US Trade 'breakthrough': Who blinked first?
After months of a “vicious cycle of mutual retaliation”, as Xi Jinping has put it, Donald Trump and China's president seem to have come to a truce af…
2 months, 2 weeks ago