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How could Labour's local power plan work?
1+ day ago —...involve the party’s proposed publicly owned energy company GB Energy... ...for the green transition – has gone somewhat under the radar. ... ...), and home-grown projects such as the Brighton Energy Cooperative... ...The new report Plug in Power: The Case for Community Energy Democracy...
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Ireland’s threat to send back migrants is helpful for Rishi Sunak
1+ day ago —...The Irish justice minister Helen McEntee said last week that more... ...The Prime Minister can argue that the Rwanda plan is having a deterrent... ...now meet the Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris instead... ...McEntee was supposed to meet the Home Secretary James Cleverly today...
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Salman Rushdie: “The world has abandoned realism”
3+ day ago —...Salman Rushdie’s 22nd book, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted... ..., at London’s Southbank Centre in association with English PEN on... ...Henry [Reese, co-creator of the City of Asylum Pittsburgh Project... ...But my agent, Andrew Wylie, who obviously knows me better than I...
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Scotland's old order plots a restoration
3+ day ago —...In 1985, Neal Ascherson compared the different attitudes which the... ...The end of the Bute House Agreement is a triumph for those who never... ...When Humza Yousaf decided on 25 April to unilaterally end the Bute... ...Bonnie Prince Charlie, wondering where it all went wrong; then finally...
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Will bird flu be the next pandemic?
3+ day ago —...By Tim Flannery and James Kempton Epidemiologists (those who study... ...Such was the position that virologist Robert Webster found himself... ...The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that around 60 per... ...2019, news of a new respiratory virus started coming out of Wuhan, China...
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The nationalist romp through Europe
3+ day ago —...Jacob Rees-Mogg collided with Michael Gove and Lee Anderson, the... ...erstwhile Tory party chairman and professional soundbite who has... ...British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and US Senator JD Vance became... ...The Belgium Prime Minister Alexander De Croo condemned the mayor’...
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You're not paying as much tax as you think
3+ day ago —...For middle-class families in the UK, the OECD says taxes have fallen... ...The latest data from the OECD suggests high-tax Britain is a myth... ...for Public Policy Research (IPPR) showed that the UK is late to... ...George Dibb, the IPPR’s associate director for economic policy, says...
newstatesman.com > politics > scotland
Humza Yousaf has turned on the Scottish Greens too late
5+ day ago —...He told the Green co-leaders and government ministers Patrick Harvie... ...Following an emergency 8.30am cabinet meeting at Bute House, Yousaf... ...Then, the former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell was charged with... ...Stephen Flynn, the increasingly influential leader of the SNP’s Westminster...
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Can Labour get Britain's trains back on track?
4+ day ago —...Hannah Barnes, associate editor, is joined in the studio by George... ...Eaton, senior editor, and Freddie Hayward, political correspondent...
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Scotland’s spring of discontent
5+ day ago —...Next month marks 17 years since the Scottish National Party’s first... ...Doubts are growing over Humza Yousaf’s leadership of the SNP.... ...They championed the doomed Gender Recognition Reform Bill and have... ...or the Bute House Agreement,” Forbes said....