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The Manchester mayoral election 2026 was won by Labour's Bev Craig on 30 July. What the result, the turnout and the mayor's budget mean for households.

The Republic of Czechoslovakia existed from 1918 to 1992 and divided peacefully on 1 January 1993. What its presidents, its split and its currency teach Scotland.

What is in the Green Party manifesto and policies, what they would cost, and who would pay. A costed look at wealth tax, rent controls and public ownership.

Sterling is the UK's currency and one of the oldest in the world. Here is what moves its value, what Brexit changed, and what a weak pound costs households.

Scottish elections 2026 left the SNP on 58 seats, seven short of a majority. What the result means for households, public finances and the Union.

Five airports handled about 178 million passengers in 2025, yet no new runway has opened in decades. The Society counts the cost of Heathrow's third runway against Gatwick's privately funded alternative.

Labour lost roughly 1,500 council seats, Reform UK surged and nine London boroughs ended with no majority. The Society reads the results through the budgets councils must now balance.

Britain is not a perfect meritocracy, but the cure on offer is often worse than the complaint. The Society sets out what actually blocks talent: schools, housing, tax and a state that crowds out growth.

Bangladesh sells the world clothes, and little else. With tariffs shifting, orders slowing and preferential trade terms due to taper, the Society counts the risk of an economy with a single point of failure.

Andalusia has cut unemployment to a 19-year low, yet it remains one of Spain’s poorest regions. The Society counts what subsidy, rigid labour rules and good intentions have, and have not, delivered.

Farm worker Scotland relies on is not really "Scotland's" to protect. Scotland's Migration Service, a Scottish Government resource, publishes a guide called Supporting Seasona

The Hampden Park seating plan is split into four main stands: North, South, East and West, with each stand broken into lettered and numbered blocks that wrap around the pitch.

Iceland rejects reopening EU talks over fisheries control, a live warning for Scotland's renewed independence push now that Brexit has left it outside the EU too.

A new white paper from Walbrook Economics finds independence could cost every Scottish household £3,500–£5,500 a year.

A Society analysis of Scottish-domiciled banks’ balance sheets and the currency and liability questions raised by independence.