John Evans
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John Evans
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Your car is German. Your pizza is Italian. Your democracy is Greek. Your coffee is Brazilian. Your movies American. Your shirt is Indian. Your electronic Chinese. Your numbers Arabic. Your letters are Latin. And you complain your neighbor is an immigrant! Pull yourself together.

Sir Trevor Phillips will be leaving Sky News this summer to take up a new role in the US. Executive Chairman @davidgrayrhodes said: "Sir Trevor Phillips has brought audiences insightful conversations every Sunday - at Sky News we’re grateful for all that he has contributed. I know Trevor will bring the best of that to America with this exciting new opportunity. We wish him every success"

Another great day of campaigning. Thank you to everyone who has come to support so far... 6 days till polling day!

Exclusive from @patrickkmaguire Restore Britain is set to hand Andy Burnham the victory in Makerfield, according to a poll of the constituency that will electrify the final days of the by-election campaign. The mayor of Greater Manchester is five points ahead of Reform UK in a race that remains too close for comfort with less than a week until ballots are cast, a survey by More in Common and the UCL Policy Lab suggests. It shows Labour’s lead over Nigel Farage’s candidate, Robert Kenyon — 45 per cent to 40 per cent — is smaller than the 8 per cent share for Restore Britain, the hard-right party led by Rupert Lowe, with more than one in ten voters yet to decide how to vote. thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

Gut wrenching to see four young people jailed for direct action against an arms supplier to Israel. Years in prison for protesting to save lives in Gaza, with 'terrorism' used despite no jury convicting them of it. A truly dangerous attack on the right to protest.

Gut wrenching to see four young people jailed for direct action against an arms supplier to Israel. Years in prison for protesting to save lives in Gaza, with 'terrorism' used despite no jury convicting them of it. A truly dangerous attack on the right to protest.

People think what happens in Northern Ireland says nothing about life in the rest of the UK. After the bloody events of this week, they will have to think again. My Friday monologue, available now on X, Youtube, Substack, Facebook and Spotify.



TIMES EXCLUSIVE: NEW MAKERFIELD POLL BURNHAM 45% REFORM 40% RESTORE 8% More in Common/UCL Policy Lab, 28 May-12 June, 515 adults thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…




'Victory for common sense' as plans for 11-bedroom HMO in Sunderland's Godfrey Road are refused trib.al/TD9pIDO










