Democracy

The study suggests that those groups less likely to vote Conservative were more likely to be turned away

The party is "misleading voters into believing what they are reading is the work of local journalists from independent publications"

Political distrust has often "been the first step in a sequence of autocratisation, resulting in the breakdown of democracy itself" the report notes.

The significant gains made by the right across Europe in recent years haven't appeared out of the blue, writes Simon Speakman Cordall

The European Court of Human Rights is there to safeguard us against our own worst impulses – calls to leave its jurisdiction are deeply troubling, writes Alexandra Hall Hall

Something even worse than government run by politicians is government run by politics, writes AC Grayling

In Rishi Sunak's Conservatives, the ethos of public service is being replaced by self-service

The claim that the PM's failure to declare his wife’s investment in a childcare company subsidised by his Government was ‘inadvertent’ is open to question

Gambling companies received 31,500% more in fines than in the same period a decade ago, Byline Times' analysis reveals

The elections watchdog has said the fake newspapers from local Conservative parties appear to be within the rules