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EU president the former German defence minister Ursula von der Leyen...

In a key speech the EU president von der Leyen made a pitch for an EU Army Von der Leyen said: The EU is a...

China’s Wuhan shuts down transport as global alarm mounts over virus...

The latest death toll in Hubei province, of which Wuhan is the capital, rose to 17 Deaths from China's new flu-like virus rose to 17...

European shares drop from record high on threat of U.S. auto...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened to impose high tariffs on imports of cars from the European Union if the bloc doesn't agree...

South Western Railway ‘not sustainable’ and could come into public sector

South Western Railway's (SWR) finances indicate it is "not sustainable in the long term", Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has said. The operator's financial performance has...

Tax avoidance, evasion costs EU 170 billion euros a year

European Union member states lose 170 billion euros (Β£143 billion) a year due to tax avoidance and evasion, a Polish state think-tank said in...

Israeli troops kill three Palestinians in Gaza border attack

Israeli troops on Tuesday shot and killed three Palestinians,Β  Israeli troops claim the Palestinians threw an explosive towards them after attempting to cross the...

UK government suffers fourth defeat on Brexit legislation in House of...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government suffered a fourth defeat on its Brexit legislation when members of parliament's upper chamber voted on Tuesday to ensure...

Labour leadership: Jess Phillips quits race to succeed Jeremy Corbyn

Jess Phillips has dropped out of the Labour leadership contest, leaving four candidates in the race to succeed Jeremy Corbyn.Β  In a video message to...

Half a billion unemployed or underemployed worldwide: UN report

Insufficient paid work affects almost half a billion people. A new United Nations report shows more than 470 million people are unemployed or underemployed globally....
U.S. Supreme Court

Trump’s Senate trial begins as a polarised America looks on

Donald Trump's impeachment trial begins in earnest in the Senate on Tuesday in a rare use of the constitutional mechanism for ousting a president...

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Paul Knaggs
Editor and founder of The Heartlands Tribune, formerly Labour Heartlands. π™π™§π™šπ™šπ™—π™€π™§π™£ π™€π™£π™œπ™‘π™žπ™¨π™ π™π™–π™™π™žπ™˜π™–π™‘ π™Žπ™€π™˜π™žπ™–π™‘π™žπ™¨π™©. Citizen journalist. Veteran. Dyslexic but driven. Writing from the working-class coalface against corruption, liberal elitism, political complacency, and the managed democracy of party machines, think tanks, and the Westminster bubble. I write because silence serves the powerful. Defender of free speech, civil liberties, and real democracy.