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Catch the latest Financial News EventsWill Reform dominate the local and devolved elections? – podcast
Pippa Crerar is joined by the election analyst Prof Rob Ford to look at the upcoming local and devolved elections. Will Reform dominate across England? Can the Greens remove Labour’s longstanding hold over London? And will the nationalists win in Scotland and Wales?...
Political donations are poison to our democracy – but there’s an easy antidote to that | George Monbiot
As revelations about Reform UK’s donors emerge, it’s clear that increasingly complex forms of patronage can’t be regulated effectively. We need a clean sweepHow do we know whether political funding is corrupt? Mostly, we don’t. A plutocrat delivers a sack of cash to a...
It’s amazing how much damage Kemi can do to herself in five minutes on local radio | John Crace
Echoes of Liz Truss as Badenoch blusters and blunders through series of short interviews, saving the worst for almost lastIt was the sort of day that every politician dreads. One where you can’t not say and do something. The pressure to come up with the right words....
‘I did receive bottles on stage. There might have been urine’: Melanie C on Spice Girls mania, impostor syndrome and her date with a Chili Pepper
As she releases a clubby new album, Sweat, the former Sporty Spice answers your questions on her raver days, scouse cuisine and Sex Pistols coversYour acid remix of Jessie Ware’s Free Yourself was a bit unexpected, I admit. Were you a hardcore raver back in the early...