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Book Reviews

Book Review: Twilight of Democracy by Anne Applebaum

by Jon Hill
7 September 2026
Economy

An automotive challenge: the European nations still driving outdated vehicles

5 September 2026
Brexit

Will the UK Government change the immigration narrative before it’s too late?

4 September 2026
Broken Britain

Sewage Watch – Protect our rivers and beaches

1 September 2026

TRUTH IS POWER – NOMINATE AN ORGANISATION FOR SCRUTINY

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Welcome to the ‘Youth Hunger Games’: the brutal NEET race for shrinking pickings

22 August 2026
A tin containing badges with the flags of EU member states, with a badge of the UK flag sat outside the tin.

EU membership offers at least £639mn boost to South West England per year, new report finds

21 August 2026
Photo of Abdul El-Sayed speaking in front of an audience in a hall

Progressive politics 101: the new wave in America

17 August 2026
Farage with bitcoins

Farage’s free pass is finally over

9 August 2026
Illustration of a person with a raised fist above larger scale hands clasped in solidarity, behind the person is a red sun

Review: Global Justice Report 2026: A plan for equality & prosperity within planetary boundaries

8 August 2026
Immigration enforcement unform match in black with a white Union Jack outline with a horizontal purple line across the middle

Inward migration falls, but skills shortages remain

6 August 2026

ENVIRONMENT

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Urban problems: nature-based solutions and a Green New Deal everywhere

1 August 2026
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Life on Earth – extraordinarily rare!

29 July 2026

SEWAGE WATCH

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Sewage Watch – Protect our rivers and beaches

1 September 2026

DEMOCRACY & ELECTORAL REFORM

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Police

Policing and racism: where should Labour stand on far-right allegations of two-tier policing?

20 July 2026
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Clay pigeons and social engineering: it’s time to confront the UK’s mainstream news

12 June 2026
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Ideology matters: why social democracy is Labour’s way forward

5 May 2026
Alexei Navalni, 2020

Review of “Patriot” by Alexei Navalny

28 April 2026

EDUCATION

Photograph by Rachel Lee. Used with kind permission from West Wycombe School

High praise for West Wycombe School’s progress as revealed in the latest Ofsted inspection results

30 April 2026
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Oxford Lifelong Learning hosts Spinnaker Group meeting on Lifelong Learning Entitlement

21 April 2026

REGION

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Climate Emergency

New Burnham Government: more oil and gas?

28 July 2026
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Oxfordshire

Willow Wenda exhibition opens at the Westbury People’s Gallery

13 July 2026
Photo of the Oxford Climate Choir inside a church. They are holding banners reading "Does nature not cry out for understanding, for restoration, for all creation, for us?", "Help save our wildlife", "God said let the waters bring forth swarms of living creatures and let birds fly across the dome of the sky", and "Rewild 30% of Church land".
Oxfordshire

Oxford Climate Choir calls for rewilding of church land

18 June 2026

FEATURES

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Climate Emergency

Could this be the beginning of the end for the billionaire-owned media propaganda blitz?

20 August 2026
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Climate Emergency

The climate crisis: a war on the world

19 August 2026
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Book Reviews

Climate: the fate of the world in four recent books

15 August 2026
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Society

How important is female leadership in creating sustainable wellbeing?

7 August 2026

BUSINESS

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Environment

Crossings by Ben Goldfarb: a review of his remarkable account of road ecology

28 July 2026
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Broken Britain

The 15-minute city isn’t a conspiracy: it’s already here

8 July 2026
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Climate Emergency

Transport for what kind of future? An examination of three recent Government policy documents

25 April 2026

SOCIETY

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Bristol and Bath

Whole new ball game

15 June 2026
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Art

Bristol dancers take centre stage in major new RWA exhibition

14 May 2026
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Poetry

Take Three Eggs

3 April 2026

WORLD

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So, you want to own Greenland?

23 July 2026
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New study revolutionises weather forecasting for Arctic communities

21 July 2026
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Donald Trump – upending the international order and unleashing a terrifying wave of destruction

14 July 2026
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American or whatever

4 July 2026
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Luigi Mangione’s federal trial delayed until 2027

3 July 2026
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The decline of the Russian superpower

2 July 2026

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An automotive challenge: the European nations still driving outdated vehicles

5 September 2026
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Daily Telegraph disinformation check

9 August 2026
Farm workers in high-visibility vests spraying a green field with a tractor in the background.

Will the UK Government change the immigration narrative before it’s too late?

4 September 2026
Farage with bitcoins

Farage’s free pass is finally over

9 August 2026
Putin and Orbán sitting at a long table surrounded by gold decor

Book Review: Twilight of Democracy by Anne Applebaum

Farm workers in high-visibility vests spraying a green field with a tractor in the background.

Will the UK Government change the immigration narrative before it’s too late?

Two old cars parked on a European square

An automotive challenge: the European nations still driving outdated vehicles

A tin containing badges with the flags of EU member states, with a badge of the UK flag sat outside the tin.

EU membership offers at least £639mn boost to South West England per year, new report finds

Putin and Orbán sitting at a long table surrounded by gold decor

Book Review: Twilight of Democracy by Anne Applebaum

7 September 2026
Two old cars parked on a European square

An automotive challenge: the European nations still driving outdated vehicles

5 September 2026
Farm workers in high-visibility vests spraying a green field with a tractor in the background.

Will the UK Government change the immigration narrative before it’s too late?

4 September 2026
Sewage Watch - Fat cat - © Dormouse

Sewage Watch – Protect our rivers and beaches

1 September 2026

OPINION

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Europe

Born a European

14 August 2026
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Media

Daily Telegraph disinformation check

9 August 2026
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Immigration

Immigration: most people haven’t a clue

19 July 2026

LETTERS

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Nigel Farage’s Clacton gambit

6 August 2026
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Thank you to the volunteers

1 June 2026
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Putin and Orbán sitting at a long table surrounded by gold decor

Book Review: Twilight of Democracy by Anne Applebaum

7 September 2026
Two old cars parked on a European square

An automotive challenge: the European nations still driving outdated vehicles

5 September 2026
Farm workers in high-visibility vests spraying a green field with a tractor in the background.

Will the UK Government change the immigration narrative before it’s too late?

4 September 2026
Sewage Watch - Fat cat - © Dormouse

Sewage Watch – Protect our rivers and beaches

1 September 2026
Young man in a hoodie at a desk, looking stressed while a monitor behind shows an 'Access Denied' error.

Welcome to the ‘Youth Hunger Games’: the brutal NEET race for shrinking pickings

22 August 2026
A tin containing badges with the flags of EU member states, with a badge of the UK flag sat outside the tin.

EU membership offers at least £639mn boost to South West England per year, new report finds

21 August 2026
Collage of tabloid newspaper front pages with bold headlines and photos, including a suited man, a surfer, and beach scenes.

Could this be the beginning of the end for the billionaire-owned media propaganda blitz?

20 August 2026
Forest fire burning through a dense forest, flames lapping between dark tree trunks at dusk.

The climate crisis: a war on the world

19 August 2026
Photo of Abdul El-Sayed speaking in front of an audience in a hall

Progressive politics 101: the new wave in America

17 August 2026
Sun radiates through a circular opening in fluffy clouds, casting warm golden light across the sky.

Climate: the fate of the world in four recent books

15 August 2026
Photo of arches in Parc du Cinquantenaire, Brussels

Born a European

14 August 2026
Stack of newspapers as background, closeup. Journalist's work

Daily Telegraph disinformation check

9 August 2026
Farage with bitcoins

Farage’s free pass is finally over

9 August 2026
Illustration of a person with a raised fist above larger scale hands clasped in solidarity, behind the person is a red sun

Review: Global Justice Report 2026: A plan for equality & prosperity within planetary boundaries

8 August 2026
Statue of suffragette Millicent Fawcett

How important is female leadership in creating sustainable wellbeing?

7 August 2026
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