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France may soon have a far-right president – and Europe is already scrambling to limit their power | Paul Taylor With elections next year, Emmanuel Macron and other European leaders are trying to secure institutions against the National Rally threat, says Paul Taylor of the European Policy Centre

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Green Party reaches 215,000 members as establishment smears fail After the by-election, a YouGov poll placed the Greens as the second most popular – two points behind Reform and five in front of Labour

Green Party membership figures have risen to 215,000. This is an increase of over 150,000 since last year. The Labour Party, meanwhile, has lost at least 200,000 members under Keir Starmer’s right-wing rule. As it continues to slip behind the Greens in the polls, Labour’s panic is palpable.
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Weight-loss drugs alone will not solve UK’s obesity crisis, says Chris Whitty Chief medical adviser warns of side-effects and calls for action on junk food advertising and making food healthier

thank you for having the courage to spell this out and confront the barrage of bullshit from big pharma --> Weight-loss drugs alone will not solve UK’s obesity crisis, says Chris Whitty | Weight-loss drugs | The Guardian share.google/saDYVRLTCnxi...

Militiamen, probably anarchist Ascaso Division, resting at Banastás, part of siege of Huesca, by great Hungarian photographer Kati Horna, March1937, one of series of brilliant images she took around the village. Orwell was stationed a few kilometres away on other side of Huesca which was never taken

Ask your MP to meet with ‘Dirty Business’ activists! #DirtyBusiness exposed the human cost of profit before public health. Our water system won’t be fixed with tinkering. It needs public ownership. I’ve asked my MP to attend the MP drop-in on 17th March...

#DirtyBusiness exposed the human cost of profit before public health.

Our water system won’t be fixed with tinkering. It needs public ownership.

I’ve asked my MP to attend the MP drop-in on 17th March & hear that message directly from sewage campaigners: actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-...

Read these words from 100 years ago about immigrants in Britain – and see how history is chillingly repeating itself | George Monbiot Shabana Mahmood’s new rights clampdown looks outlandish until we remember that this kind of hardline action is part of our country’s fabric, says George Monbiot

'The stories being told about Muslims and immigrants today are the same stories that were being told about Jews a century ago' This is grim. We should have moved on. We are now going backwards with this near black-shirt home secretary @georgemonbiot.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Cruelty to immigrants is not what my party stands for. It’s time for True Labour, not Blue Labour | Stella Creasy We must get back to the party’s roots before it is too late. That means embracing difference, rejecting division – and fighting for opportunities for all, says MP for Walthamstow, Stella Creasy

The 1951 Labour government signed the refugee convention. Today’s Labour government is now risks consigning it to history. Why and how this is happening challenges those of us who are socialists and democrats. Oh yes, please back this @stellacreasy.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The UK Supreme Court Welcome to SCOUTSblog’s newest recurring series, in which we interview experts on different supreme courts around the world and how they compare to our own. For our debut column, we […]

In this interview with the SCOTUS Blog, which launches its series on global apex courts, I reflect on the role of the UK Supreme Court and consider whether adjudication at this level in the UK is really as apolitical as we often assume it to be. www.scotusblog.com/2026/03/the-...

Any chance of a neutral citation please

Migration is part of what makes this country great.

We're not an island of strangers - we're an island of neighbours.

The Green Party will always support fair & managed migration.

Tearful farewell of father and son as family members board ship in A Coruña harbour bound for Buenas Aires in Nov 1957. Iconic shot by Manuel Ferrol encapsulating the trauma of Galician emigration forced by economic hardship +by extension similar worldwide. Don't know colouriser.

Read these words from 100 years ago about immigrants in Britain – and see how history is chillingly repeating itself | George Monbiot Shabana Mahmood’s new rights clampdown looks outlandish until we remember that this kind of hardline action is part of our country’s fabric, says George Monbiot

The precedent is eerily, chillingly precise. What the current Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is doing to immigrants and refugees today is almost a carbon copy of what Sir William Joynson-Hicks was doing 100 years ago. And that's not a good thing. My column.
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A question: how do you, or anyone, define 'normal celebrity'; and who attaches the term 'celebrity' to anyone. Or is it one of those things that you just know, even though you can't define it (like elephants). In reality is it not just a press construct?

Worried about the demise of reading? Come to France, where we’re up to our eyes in print | Alexander Hurst From hefty literary magazines to thriving book sales, the French publishing industry refuses to let printed matter die, says Paris-based writer Alexander Hurst

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What I hope to is to compare TL v ML [2005] EWHC 2860 (Fam), [2006] 1 FLR 1263 (Mostyn QC as a HCt J) with Archer and question why Henke J did not keep the case and resolve the 'chancery case', even the whole financial provision case, at one hearing (limits prospect of numerous appeals, as well)

Many thanks. On a quick reading all the appeal hearing did was to give the wife permit to appeal out of time, to set aside the HHJ's prop estoppel decision as to the parents' entitlement to a property and to send this issue back to the lower court to rehear @giffordhead.co.uk

Archer v Archer & Ors [2026] EWHC 468 (Fam) (23 February 2026): Financial remedies. Appeal by wife against finding, based on proprietary estoppel, that the husband’s parents were the beneficial owners of a property. Appeal allowed. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH...

Trump is using AI to fight his wars – this is a dangerous turning point | Chris Stokel-Walker The technology most people use only as a chatty tool for daily tasks is reportedly aiding US military aggression. And there is not much we can do about it, says technology writer Chris Stokel-Walker

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Labours attitudes towards water companies is one of the starkest examples of how they'll do anything to protect the status quo.

The case for water nationalisation is so bloody obvious to everyone - yet they'll do anything they can to keep the failed privatisation experiment.

Trump is using AI to fight his wars – this is a dangerous turning point | Chris Stokel-Walker The technology most people use only as a chatty tool for daily tasks is reportedly aiding US military aggression. And there is not much we can do about it, says technology writer Chris Stokel-Walker

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So much for Lenten abstinence - another Celtic feast day! St Winwaloe was of Cornish stock 〓〓 but born in Breizh ➕ where he founded a monastery at Landévennec. He came to Kernow and is remembered at Landewednack, Tremaine, Towednack and Poundstock. Crêpes all round!

This is nothing. Just send Mahmood out again to announce some more anti-refugee policies and you can easily find your way to fifth place.

Trials without juries What exactly is parliament being asked to do?

David Lammy’s courts and tribunals bill will be debated in the Commons next Tuesday, 10 March. The bill itself has received relatively little attention since it was published last Wednesday afternoon. What does it say?

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Labour must stop channelling Reform and unite with progressives. That’s the lesson from Gorton and Denton | Sadiq Khan The threat to the party in some parts of our country is now existential. But we can progress, as we have in London, by being bold and strong in our core beliefs, says London mayor Sadiq Khan

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A bunch of pale yellow primroses and their green leaves against a background of dried leaves, twigs and rotted bark at the bottom of my London garden.

I’m usually away at this time of year, invariably missing the moment when the primroses start blooming at the bottom of the garden. It is difficult to think of a plant that carries the hope and freshness of spring the way a primrose does. Worth staying home for.

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The French are in uproar about gen Z not lunching with colleagues. I’m on Team Solo Dining | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett For once we can celebrate a British custom: grabbing lunch away from your colleagues to do whatever you like, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

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When sex... 'began'. Sorry for error

A bit like Philip Larkin and when sexual intercourse, only his tongue was firmly in his cheek