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John King, Molly Ball and Jackie Kucinich on the New Jersey governor's refusal to way in on the immigration debate. ...

The "Koch Sisters" are the faces of a new AFL-CIO campaign designed to contrast the "shared values" of organized labor against those of the Koch brothers. ...

Peter Wilby’s First Thoughts column.  Tabloid values: BBC news crew stand in front of the Charters Estate, where Cliff Richard owns a flat, 14 August. Photo: Getty I first noticed the BBC’s embrace of tabloid values in July 1992, when the corporation’s main evening bulletin led with the murder of Rachel Nickell on Wimbledon Common. The blood-soaked body of a young, blonde mother found on a summer...

Andrew Lomas is new to the borough of Kensington and Chelsea as a Labour councillor. Here he tells us some truths about the area and its history, as he cleans up after Notting Hill Carnival. If you’re suffering from a post-Carnival hangover, spare a thought for local residents. Photo: Getty I came, I saw, I carnivalled August Bank Holiday can only mean one thing in this neck of the woods: C-A-R-N-I-V-A-L!...

As slavery all over the world is more prolific and lucrative than ever, a new British abolitionist movement is beginning. Just like 200 years ago, however, it is encountering “dark forces” at the top. Anti-slavery campaigners outside parliament. Photo: Getty The 35 Afghans found in a shipping container on Tilbury Docks this month will provide ample grist for the government’s "Slavery Is Closer Than...

Farage needs to explain why he could prevent the referendum he has always wanted.  Nigel Farage, pictured during the Newark by-election. Photograph: Getty Images. Ukip may no longer be a single-issue party, but it still has a defining cause: the withdrawal of Britain from the European Union. Twenty years after it was founded, David Cameron finally gave the party what it wanted last year: a promise...

Is the increasing amount of time our MPs spend sending tweets impinging on their more traditional engagement with voters, and each other? MPs have spent over 2774 hours on Twitter in the past year. Photo: Getty Typing 140 characters or fewer into a smartphone is now one of the most prominent political weapons in the otherwise often rusty and dusty armoury of our MPs and peers. Before, all they had...

The PM is not alone in failing to articulate a clear set of principles for this new era.  David Cameron during a press conference at the Foreign Office on June 17, 2014. Photograph: Getty Images. During his recent lecture in London, Tony Blair recalled his time in office and declared with pride: “We led in the world.” The remark was derided by those unable to view the former prime minister as anything...

Although politicians are focusing on childcare, British parents are still expected to pay a higher price than in much of the rest of the developed world. We need better-quality investment. Alongside the welcome promise of more money for childcare, we need clearer strategies. Photo: Getty We have lost our way on childcare. No party has set out a vision for where we are trying to get as a country. Parties...

An investigation has found that at least 1400 children in Rotherham were sexually exploited for 16 years. Blame is flying everywhere, so how have MPs dealt with similar cases in the past? The police station in Rotherham. Photo: Getty As South Yorkshire’s police and crime commissioner Shaun Wright resigns from the Labour party, but insists on remaining a PCC independently, questions are raised about...

Three hats have been thrown into the ring for the Labour candidacy in Tamaki Makaurau...

The Maori Party has changed its votes but National will veto the bill in the end....

Calls for a return to 10 year passports has the support of a Parliamentary select committee....

A proposal to build a 41 kilometre monorail line in Fiordland has been rejected....

The Government has confirmed Shane Jones will take up role of Ambassador for Pacific Economic Development....

Donna Brazile says Republicans want to undo Michelle Obama's gains in healthy school lunches ...

The race for the U.S. Senate seat in Mississippi, already one of the nastiest so far this election year, has gotten deeper in the mud. ...

As President Barack Obama vowed Wednesday to help fight the influx of extremists vying for control in Syria's three-year civil war, anti-government fighters reported that jihadists in an eastern village methodically set fire to the homes and farms of those who openly opposed a hardline al Qaeda offshoot. ...

What is the Obama Doctrine? Peter Bergen says it's a smart way to use a superpower's might when necessary while avoiding dangerous mistakes ...

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