195 words Westminster voting intention: LAB: 40% (+3) CON: 37% (-1) LDEM: 5% (-2) BREX: 5% (+1) GRN: 5% (-1) via @YouGov 258 words Black Lives Matter has increased racial tension, 55% say in UK poll 144 words Is anyone else just *confused*? 545 words Starmer is facing calls to support electoral reform as 100 Labour branches back voting shake-up 105 words Landmark Danish study finds no significant effect for facemask wearers 115 words BAME teaching 'focuses too much on slavery', report finds 129 words Jeremy Corbyn will NOT have the whip returned, Sir Keir Starmer has said. 135 words Northern Independence Party: the new campaign for an independent North of England explained 125 words International Politics - Weekly Discussion Thread 190 words The government dished out millions on highly questionable contracts while denying starving kids free school meals | The Canary 120 words Our universities have sacrificed academic liberty for Chinese cash - The malign influence of China’s Communist Party on British campuses has been ignored for too long, says Edward Lucas 104 words Young white workers earn less money per hour than any other ethnicity of the same age 217 words Boris Johnson is delaying the inevitable again – and watching as Covid-19 surges 341 words Tories quietly vote to hike fee for migrants to use NHS by £224 161 words Foreigners don’t take our jobs — they create them and boost the Treasury 486 words NEW: attorney general @SuellaBraverman has set out her legal position in defence of the Internal Market Bill and the clauses which undermine the Withdrawal Agreement. 217 words Britons are increasingly avoiding the news - Brexit and the pandemic have taken a toll on the British public 168 words Food prices will rise in the new year. That is the reality of Brexit 936 words Europe’s ‘last dictator’ in a brutal fight for survival 226 words Daily Megathread - 13/08/2020