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Bihar Votes
Bihar's assembly election covers 243 seats, with voting on November 6 and 11 and counting on November 14. The episode looks at the NDA's seat-sharing…
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Thames Water's Last Chance
A creditor group holding about £17 billion of Thames Water's roughly £20 billion debt named Lord John Hutton as chair-designate on October 20. The ep…
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The Farm Tax Revolt, One Year On
The agricultural and business property relief reforms in force since April 6, 2026, with a £2.5 million threshold, have coincided with more than 6,30…
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The Chagos Question
The Chagos treaty signed on May 22, 2025 has never entered into force, its implementing bill fell in April 2026, and President Trump withdrew his sup…
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The NHS Winter Warning
NHS England data published on October 8 show 7.37 million treatments waiting, the highest since October 2025, and 50,582 twelve-hour A&E waits in Sep…
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The Channel Winter
The Court of Appeal has overturned the Bell Hotel injunction in the Epping asylum case, and the France 'one in, one out' deal was scrapped in Septemb…
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Seven Days to the Budget
In the final week before the October 28 UK Budget, September inflation came in at 3.5%, September borrowing reached about £25 billion, and public deb…
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The Funding Cliff Returns
Congress is in recess until after the midterms with none of the 12 appropriations bills passed by both chambers, setting up a December 11 lame-duck s…
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The Capital Crackdown
A federal policing operation in Washington, D.C. faces legal scrutiny after an October 14 D.C. Circuit hearing questioned the legality of the Nationa…
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Maximum Pressure, Havana Edition
The United States sanctioned Cuba's state bank BICSA on October 15, following the October 7 seizure of roughly 90 biodiesel shipments worth about $3 …
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