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UK Politics
Hysteria around Labour's VAT on private schools and inheritance tax on farms are not the existential threats they've been made out to be in the press
Donald Trump’s second victory in the United States is a warning sign to democracies everywhere of the centrality of emotions – and their manipulation – in the new politics of gross inequality and psychic rebellion fuelled by tech-driven alternative realities, writes Hardeep Matharu
Rachael Reeves' budget was disappointing. Not for its content, but the way it was communicated
A long awaited plan for ME and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome sufferers is due to be published this winter.
Campaigners hope a proposed new law could bring an end to a system that puts vulnerable people into even more danger
The UK needs a revolution in the way politics and democracy works – starting with proportional representation, writes Neal Lawson
Some of the loudest voices in the US are starting to say the quiet part out loud, reports Chris York
A transatlantic “web of dark money” ties UK think tank donors to Donald Trump and US Republicans
The Conservative Party's new leader has appointed a series of Shadow Cabinet ministers whose Government records were clouded in scandal