The last time Labour won Blackpool South, the party won 270 other constituencies. It was 1997 and Labour took 179 more than all other parties combined. Tony Blair walked down a flag-festooned Downing Street later that sunny May day. The debate about whether Britain is approaching a 1992 knife-edge election, where a surprisingly resilient Conservative …
In the latest figures on UK house prices, new builds are particularly eye-catching. The price for such homes has increased by 17% in the past year, while the average price for existing homes cooled by 2.4%. While these figures may grab attention for a day or two, there is little awareness of the long-term trend, …
Between March 2020 and September 2021, millions of workers furloughed under the Government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme lived what for many of us is a dream: being paid not to work. Through interviews, I’ve researched the impact of this time on 35 people who were furloughed under the scheme. I found that for some, furlough …
This Town, the new BBC drama from Peaky Blinders creator Stephen Knight, revisits the Midlands setting, also doubling as a somewhat backhanded tribute to the region and a paean to the Two-tone music — an amalgam of ska, punk and reggae — that emerged from it. The backdrop for Knight’s heroes is the aftershocks of …
The UK’s media regulator has found GB News guilty of breaching the UK’s ‘due impartiality’ code in five separate programmes. This brings the total violations for the news channel to 12 in the last 18 months, with eight investigations underway. Despite repeated infringements, Ofcom has not sanctioned the channel or threatened to revoke its broadcast …
The UK parliament has heard findings that levelling up — arguably the Conservatives’ flagship policy agenda — is beset by critical delays. In a report published on March 15, the public accounts committee, parliament’s expenditure watchdog, has said that, as of September 2023, local authorities had spent only £1.24 billion of the £10.47 billion the …
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