From Covid to climate change, understanding the role unevidenced conspiracy theories fulfil for individual and social identity in a shifting world can better help explain our ‘post-truth’ age
      
  UK Politics
Experts suggest Conservative frontbenchers are deliberately misleading the public
      
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  Susan Hall has joined the advisory board of Rupert Lowe’s ‘Restore Britain’ group which is calling for the deportation of millions of people living legally in the UK
      
  Nearly ten times as many entered the UK under under Brexiters' unvetted skilled worker visa scheme as arrived in small boats
      
  Neal Lawson on the series of numbers that really matter in UK politics right now
      
  After a difficult start to his premiership, Keir Starmer must seize the opportunity to start delivering on the kind of radical change he once promised, argues Adam Bienkov
      
  EXCLUSIVE: Local police have rejected the Reform UK deputy council leader's claim that they advised him not to meet his constituents
      
  Huge sums of money have yet to be returned by businesses five years after the last Conservative Government's Covid 'bounce back' loan scheme was launched
      
  EXCLUSIVE: Photos show council chief executive posing with Nigel Farage's 'DOGE' team in image used for Reform party promo