As a dock city, Liverpool has served as a gateway to the sugar trade, slavery and global transport for hundreds of years. It has long been…
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Senior lecturer in psychology at The Open University Dr Meg-John Barker was among a prestigious panel at the White House, for an official White House Briefing…
The rate of hate crimes reported in the UK has rocketed since the country voted to leave the European Union in June, according to the National…
The number of women MPs in the British parliament is the highest it’s ever been. There are 191 women among the 650 MPs, up a third…
When the European Union decided to fine Apple €13.5 billion for tax evasion in Ireland last week, it didn’t take long for the Irish government to…
The Bank of England has cut interest rates by 0.25 percentage points to a historic low of 0.25%. The move was expected and comes in response…
Even her rival Bernie Sanders has publicly endorsed her. But as the convention got underway, plenty of Sanders’s progressive supporters were far from happy with the…
Disasters have a way of revealing the gap between what a government says it wants to do and what it actually does. As Oxfam’s Duncan Green…
Britain’s housing market is in a sorry state. With house prices forecast to fall, house building grinding to a halt and buyers pulling out of purchases…
The subject of refugees and their often dangerous journeys into Europe has barely been out of the news in recent years. Now, a powerful new BBC…