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live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. its newsday. its 6am in singapore, and midnight in the danish capital, copenhagen — where police say several people have been killed in a shooting incident in a shopping centre. this happened just a few hours ago now. there are also many injured. the mayor of copenhagen says its a very serious situation, and one person, a danish man, has been arrested. eyewitnesses have spoken of chaotic scenes after the man opened fire inside the ...

Plans for a second Scottish Referendum on independence have been put on ice. First minister Nicola Sturgeon has categorically not dropped the idea of another vote, but said today that no legislation will be brought forward until autumn next year at the earliest. Given the pace at which these things proceed, that means no vote would happen until 2020 and by then it would likely be delayed until after the next scottish elections in 2021. The reset amounts to a setback for the ambitions of the snp,...

Voting patterns over decades show how hard it is to maintain enthusiasm for democracy.

Fewer people are being ‘socialised’ into Conservative voting since the dominance of New Labour in the 1990s.

Fewer people are being ‘socialised’ into Conservative voting since the dominance of New Labour in the 1990s.

More and more people are saying they don’t trust the news or can’t face engaging with it – and that appears to have political implications.

Research has long suggested that women shift left on a generational basis, but we think something else is happening here.

The election campaign’s first live TV debate offered a glimpse of the leadership challenge faced by Labour’s Chris Hipkins – to connect with voter’s values and interests, not just their current mood.

As the Kejriwal empire spreads, will he be able to keep the momentum going? BY ADITI PHADNIS When it was launched in October 2012, many dismissed the Aam Aadmi Party as an intervention by a set of well-meaning political dilettantes. Those who gave it credence would say that it was ‘different’. “A political alternative that

Voters—at least from the folk theory of electoral democracy—are the deciders on matters governance.