I recall Nicola Sturgeon saying that a referendum should be held when polls showed a desire for a referendum being maintained at 60 per cent over ...

A row that disrupted parliamentary procedures to elect an Irish premier has been resolved after an intervention from the speaker of the Dail chamber. A Government spokesperson said they accepted Ceann ...

A teacher at Drakensburg Secondary School in South Africa is under investigation for allegedly cutting off a Hindu student's religious thread. The South African Hindu Maha Sabha has condemned the ...

Coverage of questions to Keir Starmer, the prime minister, on Wednesday 5 February.

In the recent US election, the Democrats made a huge play out of the notion that the very concept of democracy itself was at risk if Donald Trump won. And yet his eventual victory was unquestionably ...

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