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Broken Britain

Sewage Watch – Protect our rivers and beaches

by Jon Hill
9 October 2026
Opinion

The global paradox: what we need is not just multiculturalism, but interculturalism

9 October 2026
Art

Comedy nights, grief choirs and DJ workshops chosen as £1.1mn loneliness programme opens second funding round

7 October 2026
Europe

Exclusive: MEP Søvndal’s devastating appeal to Danish shipyard as crackdown on Putin’s disastrous trade intensifies

6 October 2026

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Sign reading "Andy Burnham let local people decide NO Campsfield expansion!"

Demonstration at Campsfield House Immigration Removal Centre

5 October 2026
Jason Arday

A tale of two professors: race, scrutiny and the media

4 October 2026
Super yacht

Take a moment to feel the pain of the rich. By Danny Dorling, Professor of Geography, Oxford

3 October 2026
image by Dati Bendo. Creative Commons 4.0

Britain and the EU – the exceptionalism trap

26 September 2026
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The far right has put RNLI volunteers in the crosshairs

18 September 2026
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Summer sea-change: Burnham’s U-turns on devolution, defence & donations

16 September 2026

ENVIRONMENT

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

8 August 2026
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Urban problems: nature-based solutions and a Green New Deal everywhere

1 August 2026

SEWAGE WATCH

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Sewage Watch – Protect our rivers and beaches

9 October 2026

DEMOCRACY & ELECTORAL REFORM

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Upset in Sachsen-Anhalt: is this the fault of proportional representation?

14 September 2026
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Book Review: Twilight of Democracy by Anne Applebaum

7 September 2026
Farage with bitcoins

Farage’s free pass is finally over

9 August 2026
Police

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

20 July 2026

EDUCATION

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

22 August 2026
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High praise for West Wycombe School’s progress as revealed in the latest Ofsted inspection results

30 April 2026

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Oxfordshire

Why Oxford’s children are taking to two wheels

2 October 2026
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Gloucestershire

Heritage Open Days and ‘Ride and Stride’ make a great day out

30 September 2026
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Business

Press release: Petition launched to save local businesses from Oxford University land grab

15 September 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

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Bristol and Bath

Carla Denyer launches renters survey for residents in England’s “least affordable city”

15 September 2026
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Economy

An automotive challenge: the European nations still driving outdated vehicles

5 September 2026
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Brexit

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

21 August 2026

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Poetry

What Britain Means to Me

9 September 2026
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Climate Emergency

Life on Earth – extraordinarily rare!

29 July 2026
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Bristol and Bath

Whole new ball game

15 June 2026

WORLD

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

28 July 2026
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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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Super yacht

Take a moment to feel the pain of the rich. By Danny Dorling, Professor of Geography, Oxford

3 October 2026
Sewage Watch - Fat cat - © Dormouse

Sewage Watch – Protect our rivers and beaches

9 October 2026
Jason Arday

A tale of two professors: race, scrutiny and the media

4 October 2026
Farage with bitcoins

Farage’s free pass is finally over

9 August 2026
Flags of the world

The global paradox: what we need is not just multiculturalism, but interculturalism

Sign reading "Andy Burnham let local people decide NO Campsfield expansion!"

Demonstration at Campsfield House Immigration Removal Centre

Villy Sovndal at a lecturn backed by European flags

Exclusive: MEP Søvndal’s devastating appeal to Danish shipyard as crackdown on Putin’s disastrous trade intensifies

Jason Arday

A tale of two professors: race, scrutiny and the media

Sewage Watch - Fat cat - © Dormouse

Sewage Watch – Protect our rivers and beaches

9 October 2026
Flags of the world

The global paradox: what we need is not just multiculturalism, but interculturalism

9 October 2026
First cohort of artists at Bristol Beacon.

Comedy nights, grief choirs and DJ workshops chosen as £1.1mn loneliness programme opens second funding round

7 October 2026
Villy Sovndal at a lecturn backed by European flags

Exclusive: MEP Søvndal’s devastating appeal to Danish shipyard as crackdown on Putin’s disastrous trade intensifies

6 October 2026

OPINION

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Housing

Rent controls and the twilight of the private landlord

24 September 2026
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Housing

The case against houses in multiple occupation – part one

13 September 2026
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Media

Regulators: who watches the watchers?

10 September 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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Sewage Watch – Protect our rivers and beaches

9 October 2026
Flags of the world

The global paradox: what we need is not just multiculturalism, but interculturalism

9 October 2026
First cohort of artists at Bristol Beacon.

Comedy nights, grief choirs and DJ workshops chosen as £1.1mn loneliness programme opens second funding round

7 October 2026
Villy Sovndal at a lecturn backed by European flags

Exclusive: MEP Søvndal’s devastating appeal to Danish shipyard as crackdown on Putin’s disastrous trade intensifies

6 October 2026
Sign reading "Andy Burnham let local people decide NO Campsfield expansion!"

Demonstration at Campsfield House Immigration Removal Centre

5 October 2026
Jason Arday

A tale of two professors: race, scrutiny and the media

4 October 2026
Super yacht

Take a moment to feel the pain of the rich. By Danny Dorling, Professor of Geography, Oxford

3 October 2026
The kidical Mass kids cycling on the streets of Oxford

Why Oxford’s children are taking to two wheels

2 October 2026
Photo of the Hadestown cast on stage

Film Review: Hadestown: The Musical

1 October 2026
Picture of a chirch nestled behind a hill down a country track

Heritage Open Days and ‘Ride and Stride’ make a great day out

30 September 2026
image by Dati Bendo. Creative Commons 4.0

Britain and the EU – the exceptionalism trap

26 September 2026
Angela Rayner talking to a group of people on a doorstep

Rent controls and the twilight of the private landlord

24 September 2026
Row of bright yellow lifeboat jackets hanging on a metal rack, RNLI lettering visible across the backs of the coats.

The far right has put RNLI volunteers in the crosshairs

18 September 2026
Man in a navy suit and blue tie wearing black-framed glasses, standing outside a building and looking to the left.

Summer sea-change: Burnham’s U-turns on devolution, defence & donations

16 September 2026
An elevated view of a row of pastel-painted houses in Oxford, with lower floor shops.

Press release: Petition launched to save local businesses from Oxford University land grab

15 September 2026
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