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Sarah Ingham: There’s a quite simple answer to the question of reparations for slavery – just say no

In just over a fortnight the biannual Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting will be held in Antigua and Barbuda. Despite PM Gaston Browne’s warning that it is “critically important” that all 56 nations stand together…

Georgia L Gilholy: Badenoch is asking a lot if she wants a free pass on immigration – she was part of the problem

Similarly, she told Sky News last year that the Conservatives merely “took their eye off the ball” on the issue. But the huge immigration figures Britain clocked up under the 14 years of Tory governance, particularly…

Shazna Muzammil: Reform UK can buy leaflets. It can’t buy trust – yet

But we Conservatives still have something money cannot immediately buy: local infrastructure, experienced councillors, casework, community relationships, voter data, institutional knowledge, activists who’ve delivered…

The right’s scrounger rhetoric dominates the benefits debate. Labour must fight back – and win | Frances Ryan

Now, nearly two decades later, Duncan Smith and his thinktank, the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ), has published State of Dependency: a landmark report promising to expose "the full scale of Britain's worklessness…

‘Arts for young people is key to hope’

The national youth strategy has dire numbers of 1000 youth centres being closed and almost 4500 youth workers who have lost their jobs. At the same time we have seen arts and culture funding has not only eroded but wiped…

Delivering in Government: your weekly round up of good news Labour stories

Here are the seven most exciting breakthroughs and announcements this week that you can use, whether you’re on the doorstep, sparring on social media, or debating in the pub. 1. Fining freeholders for ignoring unsafe…

‘It’s time to end the university-first approach to opportunity’

If you haven’t grown up around it, and nobody at school or college has shown you the options, it is remarkably easy to assume that the world isn’t for you. That experience is why I am supporting More than numbers, the…

‘The government must reform vehicle taxation in the next budget – or risk losing out on more than £60 billion’

In this new phase of rapid electrification, the vehicle tax system is no longer fit for purpose. The current system has two key problems. First, the system will soon begin to haemorrhage money, putting funding for vital…

EU summit runs out of gas

The war in Ukraine looms large over the summit. Earlier this week, President Trump alarmed European leaders and horrified Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy by announcing a deal to release Russian diesel onto the…

Merz bei den jungen Wilden: Der nächste Showdown?

Die vielleicht nicht jungen, aber jüngeren Mitglieder um Johannes Winkel wollen endlich Reformen. Ob der Parteichef die Basis befrieden kann, ordnet Rasmus Buchsteiner von Bonn aus ein. Im 200-Sekunden-Interview…