Pressure Mounts

• La storica vittoria nelle elezioni suppletive di Farrer accende malumori interni sulla leadership della Coalition • Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast • Una trionfante Pauline Hanson ha dichiarato che One Nation è "qui per restare" dopo una storica vittoria nelle elezioni suppletive di Farrer, che ha scatenato malumori interni sulla leadership di Angus Taylor a soli tre mesi dall'inizio del suo mandato.

As a Mast of Fraternity and Memory is unveiled in Nantes, calls are growing for Macron to announce framework for discussionsIn the French port city of Nantes, once France’s largest departure point for ships that trafficked enslaved Africans across the Atlantic, a new wooden mast rises 18 metres into the sky from the waterside.The Mast of Fraternity and Memory, inaugurated this month, marks a turning point in France’s complicated relationship with the legacy of its history of enslavement – just as the French president, Emmanuel Macron, comes under pressure to make key announcements on a process of reparatory justice. Continue reading...

Leadership options in focus amid fears over election losses, with allies of Greater Manchester mayor stepping up preparations for a comebackAndy Burnham has plan to return to Westminster ‘within weeks’, allies sayWhen the eyes of Westminster were on the committee rooms and voting lobbies of parliament this week, Keir Starmer’s political future was being decided elsewhere.Wes Streeting and Angela Rayner were buttering up Labour MPs in the Strangers’ Bar in parliament as colleagues spoke of their “existential” fear about the crucial elections next week. Continue reading...