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Southend MP: How we can hand power to the people

by David Burton-Sampson MP

Nature reserve brings new hope for declining sand martins

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TRUTH IS POWER – NOMINATE AN ORGANISATION FOR SCRUTINY

POLITICS/BREXIT

Photo of the exterior of a building, with a black door. Next to it is a sign saying "National Probation Service"

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Composite image showing just the handshake of two men in suits, and next to each hand is a union jack. In the background, against the backdrop of the EU flag are senior European leaders. The image represents the UK negotiating with itself while the Europeans watch, uninvited, in the background.

Britons talking to Britons: the Brexit mistake we keep making

POLITICS BLOG

Interior view of Norfolk County Council chamber, filled with councillors

Local Elections 2026 Blog

MR PECKSNIFF'S EAST ANGLIA DIARY

Montage of a photo of a Reform UK teller, holding a clipboard, directly outside the entrance to the Homelands Free Church polling station, Walton-on-the-Naze. The other half is a graphic of a clipboard with a Reform UK rosette attached. On it are three questions: Name? Address? ID?

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Image of the former Royal Navy amphibious assault ship and helicopter carrier HMS Ocean operating at sea with Merlin and Chinook helicopters stationed on its flight deck. Inset if a photo of Nigel Farage

Pecksniff: Reform’s plan to invade France

Prime Minister Andy Burnham hosting his first weekly Cabinet Meeting

Pecksniff: It was just as Angela Rayner walked up Downing Street that the beer ran out

Andy Burnham arrives at Number 10 Downing Street for the first time as Prime Minister.

Pecksniff: Burnham wants to tell his own story in his own way

HEALTH/EDUCATION

Outdoor learning scene: children and their teacher at a forest school. The teacher is sitting on a log and showing something, and the children are taking notes.

Beyond the test: let’s reclaim education for the next generation

Andy Burnham visiting a Jewish Care centre, talks to an elderly female resident

Burnham’s big gamble: the 23rd attempt to fix social care

Lion statue with Pride scarf outside Norwich City Hall

Ignore the media: Norwich Pride was people celebrating

LIFESTYLE

Volksbad lido in front of the Volksbühne theatre. The Volksbühne, built during the early 1950s in the massive style characteristic of Communist architecture, is built of grey stone. Its bow front has 6 stone columns almost full height, and between them are 5 huge doors and above those 5 are narrow tall windows almost the full height of the columns. In front of the building, the lido is a brilliant blue, with ripples reflecting the sunlight. People are standing and talking on the pooledge, some fully dressed and some in swimming costumes, and we can see one person in the water at the right-hand edge of the photo.

Volksbad: a pop-up lido in the heart of Berlin

A young man reading a newspaper. He is sitting at a café, and is looking at the page in surprised disagreement.

Have we lost our right to answer?

A handcuffed youth being led by a policeman to a waiting van.

Medieval mumbo-jumbo and simple hate lie behind the Thetford riots

WORLD

Mark Zuckerberg portrait

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Finnish troops in military exercise on Russina border

Europe’s defence: getting better value for money

A long line of people holding Ukrainian flags stand outside Kings College Cambridge

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Five years to save Europe!

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Montage of a photo of a Reform UK teller, holding a clipboard, directly outside the entrance to the Homelands Free Church polling station, Walton-on-the-Naze. The other half is a graphic of a clipboard with a Reform UK rosette attached. On it are three questions: Name? Address? ID?

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Composite image showing just the handshake of two men in suits, and next to each hand is a union jack. In the background, against the backdrop of the EU flag are senior European leaders. The image represents the UK negotiating with itself while the Europeans watch, uninvited, in the background.

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Aerial view of Southend town, beach and pier.

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Pokemon graffiti on a store wall in Viña del Mar

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Two sand martins on a sandy cliff face.

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Pokemon graffiti on a store wall in Viña del Mar

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OPINION/LETTERS

Montage showing a mirror image of Zia Yusuf and in the background migrants in a dinghy. The left-facing Yusuf has a quote: "Illegal migrants" and the right-facing Yusuf has a quote: "Innocent civillians"

(Ab)using words: Zia Yusuf on Good Morning Britain

Stacks of bottles of craft beer, including Fursty Ferret, Tangle Foot, Spitfire and Hambledon Bitter

In search of a better beer

The word vote coloured with the USA flag

Progressives, centrists and the future of the Democrats

CARTOONS

Cartoon with the title: Conservative candidates for local elections in 2023. Beneath the title is a picture of a bollard, a sheep and a woman with squirrels climbing over her with the caption: "fifteen squirrels and a balloon."

Tory quandary

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Aerial view of Southend town, beach and pier.

Southend MP: How we can hand power to the people

Two sand martins on a sandy cliff face.

Nature reserve brings new hope for declining sand martins

Pokemon graffiti on a store wall in Viña del Mar

Pokémon should be fun – so why are grown-ups fighting over cards?

Andy Burnham visiting a Jewish Care centre, talks to an elderly female resident, with inset photos of a copy of the original Beveridge report, and a photo of Sir William Beveridge

On the shoulders of giants: social care reform

Photo of the exterior of a building, with a black door. Next to it is a sign saying "National Probation Service"

Is the probation service being stretched to breaking point?

Montage of a photo of a Reform UK teller, holding a clipboard, directly outside the entrance to the Homelands Free Church polling station, Walton-on-the-Naze. The other half is a graphic of a clipboard with a Reform UK rosette attached. On it are three questions: Name? Address? ID?

Pecksniff: Alleged strong-arm tactics at the polls as Farage wins Clacton

Volksbad lido in front of the Volksbühne theatre. The Volksbühne, built during the early 1950s in the massive style characteristic of Communist architecture, is built of grey stone. Its bow front has 6 stone columns almost full height, and between them are 5 huge doors and above those 5 are narrow tall windows almost the full height of the columns. In front of the building, the lido is a brilliant blue, with ripples reflecting the sunlight. People are standing and talking on the pooledge, some fully dressed and some in swimming costumes, and we can see one person in the water at the right-hand edge of the photo.

Volksbad: a pop-up lido in the heart of Berlin

Composite image showing just the handshake of two men in suits, and next to each hand is a union jack. In the background, against the backdrop of the EU flag are senior European leaders. The image represents the UK negotiating with itself while the Europeans watch, uninvited, in the background.

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Crescent sun with the moon passing over the sun .

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East end family in the 1930s. There are 15 people in the photo, 4 sitting on chairs and the rest standing in two rows behind them. The young woman sitting front right has a baby in a white christening robe, and evereyone else is clearly dressed up for the special occasion. They are all smiling, and the photo is in colour. It probably started out in black and white and has been colorised.

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Offices of Hertfordshire County Council: Robertson House, Stevenage. A striking red-brick building with a rounded section at one corner. This rather dramatic photo is taken looking up at the rounded section so it almost seems to lower over the viewer. The name Robertson House is written on the rounded section.

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Outdoor learning scene: children and their teacher at a forest school. The teacher is sitting on a log and showing something, and the children are taking notes.

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Barn owl on Middlewick. The owl is flying low above brown grasses, wings outstretched at a sharp angle, and the face turned to stare straight at the camera. A low sun is lighting up its wing feathers.

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Montage image showing documents about the judicial review and costs all redacted, against the backdrop of Endeavour House, Suffolk County Council's HQ with an inset of Cllr Michael Hadwen.

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Cromer RNLI Lifeboat Day practice rescue with a man in the water holding a smoke flare, and a zodiac with crew and the RNLI Lester Tamar class lifeboat in the background

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A young man reading a newspaper. He is sitting at a café, and is looking at the page in surprised disagreement.

Have we lost our right to answer?

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