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Guido Fawkes25 Feb 2026

Denmark Considers Extending North Sea Oil Licences to 2050

Denmark is weighing up extending North Sea oil and gas licences to 2050, beyond the current expiry date of 2042, “to stand on its own two feet”. The Danish government issued a press release this week: “Europe must be able to stand on its own two feet when it comes to energy supply and security…The…

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The Guardian Politics24 Feb 2026

The Guardian view on temporary accommodation bills: short-term fixes must be backed up by housebuilding | Editorial

Liverpool council’s success in negotiating with landlords is a model of how to save to invest in housing Local authorities are experiencing some of the highest temporary accommodation bills on record. Councils in England spent £2.8bn last year on homeless accommodation – a 25% increase on the year before and a 100% increase since 2020. How did the bill get so high? The government’s redistribution of social housing stock from public to private hands is largely to blame. Instead of creating the “p

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The Guardian Politics24 Feb 2026

Do the British left’s hopes lie with the Greens, Labour or even Your Party? The answer could be all three | Joe Todd

No single organisation can deliver the change that socialists want. As Nigel Farage has shown, politics has to be ruthlessly tactical For the long-marginalised British left, parliamentary byelections aren’t usually cause for much excitement. But Gorton and Denton is different. Polls, bookmakers and tactical-voting websites name the Greens as the close-run favourites, and thousands of activists have been knocking on doors for “Hannah the plumber”, a popular local councillor and proud owner of fou

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The Guardian Politics24 Feb 2026

I have seen the scale of the mountain Labour has to climb in Gorton and Denton – but also the way it can do it | Polly Toynbee

In focus groups, people are clear they want to stop Farage at all costs. Labour must now reach out to the progressives it has disappointed The great gulf between left and right yawns deeper and wider. One way or another, the Gorton and Denton byelection this week will reveal this profound tribal divide. Those in the progressive bloc – Labour, Lib Dem, Green, SNP, Plaid – are very different kinds of people to the blues, with diametrically opposed attitudes. In more centrist days there was some sh

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Sky News Politics11 Sept 2024

New renters' law aims to stop big rent rises and no-fault evictions - here's how

No-fault evictions will finally be banned from Friday - seven years and four prime ministers on from when the change was first promised.

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