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Britain’s Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer gives a meaty speech at the Labour conference in Liverpool.

Keir Starmer calls Gaza hostages ‘sausages’ in key Labour speech

The British PM appealed to voters exhausted by years of political and economic turmoil with the message that better times are on the way.

  • Jill Lawless

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The spirit of the London Games has gone up in flames. Brace for Paris to torch the legacy

As we saw in London and Sydney, the celebratory multicultural and liberal triumphs of the Games are quickly followed by illiberal kickbacks.

  • Nick Bryant
Tony Wright on one of his motorcycles, before donning his helmet and gloves.

Riding chill streets, listening for the lessons of Zen on a motorcycle

The first rule of riding a motorcycle is look where you want to go. Could it be a metaphor for life?

  • Tony Wright
Forty per cent of voters now rank Peter Dutton, right, and the Coalition as best to manage the economy, with only 24 per cent naming Anthony Albanese and Labor.

When it comes to the economy, voters have short memories

After nearly 10 years of the Coalition having many opportunities to deliver surpluses, it not only failed to do so but managed to leave us with a trillion-dollar debt. On the other hand, Jim Chalmers will be the first treasurer in nearly two decades to bring in back-to-back surpluses.

Brexit will dominate the UK election. Not this one, but the next

Labour looks set to return to government in Britain on July 4. But the party will do that without a policy to reverse Brexit, even though many Brits now acknowledge it was a mistake.

  • George Brandis
CLACTON-ON-SEA, ENGLAND - JUNE 4:  Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage reacts after a woman threw a drink over him, as he launches his election candidacy at Clacton Pier on June 4, 2024 in Clacton-on-Sea, England. The launch follows yesterday’s announcement that Nigel Farage will stand as an MP in Clacton at the 4 July general election and takes over from Richard Tice as leader of Reform UK. The Conservative-held seat in Essex was the first to elect a UKIP MP in 2014, a party that Farage founded. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)

Farage struck by milkshake at UK election campaign launch

Two people were arrested after the divisive populist figure had a drink thrown over him while launching his candidacy.

  • Rob Harris
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Alastair Campbell in Melbourne.

‘Your politics is better than people realise’: A cup of tea with Alastair Campbell

The former firebrand political adviser is enjoying later-in-life acclaim due to his acute political insights and relaxed demeanour.

  • Stephen Brook
A passenger in the arrivals hall of Terminal 5 at London Heathrow Airport in London. The UK government wants to slash immigration levels.

UK to slash foreign workers, student intakes to cut record immigration

Under the plan to cut the migrant intake by 300,000 people a year, foreign health and care workers would be banned from bringing their children, spouses and partners to the UK.

  • Rob Harris
IFM Investors CEO David Neal.

Australian super funds to pump billions into UK infrastructure

IFM Investors, the Australian super funds-owned infrastructure specialist, is back in the UK after signalling it had retreated over British government disfunction.

  • Rob Harris

Brexit-Britain. Trump in the US. Now it’s Australia’s turn to split in two

The tragedy of this moment is that an opportunity to bring the country closer together has ended up being so fraying.

  • Nick Bryant

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