UK

Only 285 villagers voted – but the breathless media coverage shows disaster nationalism has found a comfortable home in wealthy, middle England.

Two billionaires now account for more than four-fifths of all the money Reform UK has ever raised. Andy Burnham had a chance to cap it last week – and didn’t take it.

A quick tour of the fights that haven’t gone away – one just won, one just paused rather than solved, one that’s cost a council £33m and counting, one that might not be over after all, and the rules changing underneath all of them.

Unite members at Arriva North London won by striking. Now every bus operator in the capital has been forced to follow suit.

New figures show UK arms companies exported £30m of military equipment to Israel last year, with 18 firms joining the trade for the first time.

A major IPPR report finds a generation increasingly cut off from friends, from themselves and from wider society – with worsening mental health now hitting young people’s ability to learn, work and get things done.

Playwright Ed Waugh takes to Newcastle City Library this month to tell the story the school curriculum leaves out – how Tyneside’s rank and file organised against the state during the General Strike.

As the memoir of Jason Arday is published this week, Clive Hedges argues that the row over his PhD was never really about plagiarism – it was about who higher education lets in and how quickly it turns on them.

London bus workers on strike over the heat, refuse workers and gallery staff have walked out over pay and a fresh wave of Employment Rights Act changes takes effect within weeks.