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Yorkshire’s ‘Dirty Business’: The scandal flowing through our rivers Yorkshire’s water pollution is the third worst in the UK. Who is responsible – and what can be done about it?

Yorkshire’s ‘Dirty Business’: The scandal flowing through our rivers | Yorkshire’s water pollution is the third worst in the UK. Who is responsible – and what can be done about it? | Kirsty Tucker

International Women’s Day 2026: The powerful women of the Bylines Network For International Women’s Day, the Bylines Network invites you to celebrate the women who make the network what it is

International Women's Day 2026: The powerful women of the Bylines Network | For International Women’s Day, the Bylines Network invites you to celebrate the women who make the network what it is | Su O'Brien

The illiberal nature of government proposals on immigration control Proposals to extend settled status residency periods to at least 10 years are heartless and contradict economic benefits of immigration

The illiberal nature of government proposals on immigration control

Proposals to extend settled status residency periods to at least 10 years are heartless and contradict economic benefits of immigration

By John Cole

When stillness Is stolen: and love refuses to disappear In the last of our current extracts from our Saint Paul diary, Manuela reflects on enduring a very difficult month in her city’s history

When stillness Is stolen: and love refuses to disappear | In the last of our current extracts from our Saint Paul diary, Manuela reflects on enduring a very difficult month in her city’s history | Manuela Thames

Where next for Labour after a bad by-election defeat? Labour needs to learn that a rebrand only works if the substance of what you are offering genuinely changes

Where next for Labour after a bad by-election defeat? | Labour needs to learn that a rebrand only works if the substance of what you are offering genuinely changes | Andy Brown

The Conspiracists: down the rabbit hole A US road trip documentary gives an empathetic insight into the world of the conspiracy theorist through the lens of ‘patriot’ women

The Conspiracists: down the rabbit hole | A US road trip documentary gives an empathetic insight into the world of the conspiracy theorist through the lens of ‘patriot’ women | Su O'Brien

Khamenei’s fall, Iran’s future: why Pahlavi still blocks real change US-Israeli attacks disrupt Iran’s religious leadership regime, but what Iranians really need is democracy not a return to monarchy

Khamenei’s fall, Iran’s future: why Pahlavi still blocks real change | US-Israeli attacks disrupt Iran’s religious leadership regime, but what Iranians really need is democracy not a return to monarchy | Laila Jazayeri

What you see is what you get When Donald Trump reveals time after time that he holds some very racist views, we should believe him

What you see is what you get | When Donald Trump reveals time after time that he holds some very racist views, we should believe him | J 'Masharubu' Strauss

The real ‘immigration crisis’ If we genuinely want to reduce immigration, perhaps we should look at the root causes, and stop funding foreign wars

The real ‘immigration crisis’

If we genuinely want to reduce immigration, perhaps we should look at the root causes, and stop funding foreign wars

By Jenny Harrison

The power of poetry: Local poets host sold-out charity event Poetry for PAFRAS, a special spoken word evening in Leeds, raised vital funds for a charity that helps asylum seekers and refugees

The power of poetry: Local poets host sold-out charity event

Poetry for PAFRAS, a special spoken word evening in Leeds, raised vital funds for a charity that helps asylum seekers and refugees

By Laura Autumn

Nigel Farage's Long History of Crying ‘Fraud’ Whenever His Party Loses Elections The Reform UK leader has a long record of blaming his own party's election defeats on "cheating" by ethnic minorities, yet no evidence of it can ever be found

Every time Nigel Farage's parties have lost an election he has blamed it on "cheating" by ethnic minorities and every time he receives huge amounts of media attention for doing so.

The only problem? No evidence of cheating is ever found
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The power of poetry: Local poets host sold-out charity event Poetry for PAFRAS, a special spoken word evening in Leeds, raised vital funds for a charity that helps asylum seekers and refugees

The power of poetry: Local poets host sold-out charity event

Poetry for PAFRAS, a special spoken word evening in Leeds, raised vital funds for a charity that helps asylum seekers and refugees

By Laura Autumn

Yorkshire to decide fracking proposal and not the Government Secretary of State declines to call in Burniston fracking proposal River Ure in Yorkshire Proposals for fracking near Scarborough will now not be ‘called in’ by the Government and instead the decis…

Reform's framing of fracking as 'patriotic duty' doesn't add up

Yorkshire to decide fracking proposal near Scarborough

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A group of young people hold up placards saying "electoral reform" & "we are voting"

The new electoral reform Bill changes a lot, but why not fix all the problems? In 2024, Labour won two-thirds of seats with one-third of the vote. That’s not democracy. Are we avoiding the elephant in the room? Stephen McNair reports

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When Czechoslovakia came to Bradford: Political rivalry gives way to football rivalry in 1961 At the height of the Cold War, a crack team of players from the Eastern Bloc arrived in West Yorkshire to take part in a floodlit friendly

When Czechoslovakia came to Bradford: Political rivalry gives way to football rivalry in 1961 | At the height of the Cold War, a crack team of players from the Eastern Bloc arrived in West Yorkshire to take part in a floodlit friendly | David Hewitt

Survival mode: and candles in the snow The third episode in our Saint Paul diaries finds the citizens weary but resilient and – for the most part – standing firm together

Survival mode: and candles in the snow

The third episode in our Saint Paul diaries finds the citizens weary but resilient and – for the most part – standing firm together

By Manuela Thames

Pioneering political feminists of Hatfeild Hall At Hatfeild Hall in 1910, Wakefield women joined the suffragist movement. Their pioneering activism left an important legacy

Pioneering political feminists of Hatfeild Hall - part one

At Hatfeild Hall in 1910, Wakefield women joined the suffragist movement. Their pioneering activism left an important legacy

By Sarah Cobham

Yorkshire’s ‘Dirty Business’: The scandal flowing through our rivers Yorkshire’s water pollution is the third worst in the UK. Who is responsible – and what can be done about it?

Yorkshire’s ‘Dirty Business’: The scandal flowing through our rivers

Yorkshire’s water pollution is the third worst in the UK. Who is responsible – and what can be done about it?

By Kirsty Tucker

The illiberal nature of government proposals on immigration control Proposals to extend settled status residency periods to at least 10 years are heartless and contradict economic benefits of immigration

The illiberal nature of government proposals on immigration control | Proposals to extend settled status residency periods to at least 10 years are heartless and contradict economic benefits of immigration | John Cole

Migration is not a threat – it’s human experience Migration is a human reality not a threat: hostile rhetoric causes harm, but lived experience reveals resilience dignity and contribution

Migration is not a threat – it’s human experience | Migration is a human reality not a threat: hostile rhetoric causes harm, but lived experience reveals resilience dignity and contribution | Dr. Laura De Pretto

Where next for Labour after a bad by-election defeat? Labour needs to learn that a rebrand only works if the substance of what you are offering genuinely changes

Where next for Labour after a bad by-election defeat?

Labour needs to learn that a rebrand only works if the substance of what you are offering genuinely changes

By Andy Brown
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What you see is what you get When Donald Trump reveals time after time that he holds some very racist views, we should believe him

What you see is what you get

When Donald Trump reveals time after time that he holds some very racist views, we should believe him

By J 'Masharubu' Strauss

Pointing towards light: a small miracle In the second of our views of life under ICE in Saint Paul, Minnesota, it’s the small signs of care and hope that matter

Pointing towards light: a small miracle | In the second of our views of life under ICE in Saint Paul, Minnesota, it’s the small signs of care and hope that matter | Manuela Thames

Revealed: Reform is importing Trump’s Project 2025 blueprint for autocracy Far from a British insurgency, Reform UK is entangled with Trump’s Project 2025 and a global authoritarian network

Far from a British insurgency, Reform UK is entangled with Trump’s Project 2025 and a global authoritarian network | Nafeez Ahmed

When Czechoslovakia came to Bradford: Political rivalry gives way to football rivalry in 1961 At the height of the Cold War, a crack team of players from the Eastern Bloc arrived in West Yorkshire to take part in a floodlit friendly

When Czechoslovakia came to Bradford: Political rivalry gives way to football rivalry in 1961 | At the height of the Cold War, a crack team of players from the Eastern Bloc arrived in West Yorkshire to take part in a floodlit friendly | David Hewitt

‘Not Nimbyism’: Campaigners Fight 20-Turbine Wind Project in Yorkshire Dales Will the Yorkshire Dales be ruined by renewables? Barningham Moor Fred. Olsen Renewables have identified a site right on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales near to Richmond, where they hope to erect a…

Not Nimbyism’: Campaigners Fight 20-Turbine Wind Project in Yorkshire Dales

Will the Yorkshire Dales be ruined by renewables?

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The UK is getting it wrong on immigration – that must change A new report highlights that there is another way possible on immigration that will benefit everyone

The UK is getting it wrong on immigration – that must change

A new report highlights that there is another way possible on immigration that will benefit everyone

By Sue Wilson MBE

Continuing on: in a world that refuses to be quiet A Minnesotan writer and artist shares her first-hand account of life under ICE occupation during a bitterly cold winter

Continuing on: in a world that refuses to be quiet | A Minnesotan writer and artist shares her first-hand account of life under ICE occupation during a bitterly cold winter | Manuela Thames

Going underground: feeding families in ICE’s shadow As the shadow of ICE hangs over a neighborhood, volunteers quietly and quickly keep families fed

As the shadow of ICE hangs over a neighborhood, volunteers quietly and quickly keep families fed | Ari Johnson

Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” is a febrile adolescent dolls’ house A highly-stylised coming-of-age interpretation doesn’t quite come off in this latest reimagining of Emily Brontë’s dark tale

Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” is a febrile adolescent dolls’ house

A highly-stylised coming-of-age interpretation doesn’t quite come off in this latest reimagining of Emily Brontë’s dark tale

By Pen Hemingway