Nearly a year after the 2024 election, the British political system is creaking under the pressure of public discontent. As the new British Social Attitudes report reveals today, last year’s vote has delivered record support for electoral reform. In fact, 60% of respondents to this massive survey want something different.

And as Britain’s most prominent psephologist John Curtice reveals, the displeasure is driving support for challenger parties. Reform UK and the Greens were already benefiting from the country’s new political divide between social liberals and social conservatives. Now, he says, the increasing disillusionment with the two-party duopoly makes the threat to Labour and the Conservatives potentially more profound than anything we’ve seen before.

Also today, scientists believe they’ve found that dementia risk is actually declining with each generation. Can that really be true? And while Donald Trump is celebrating his strike on Iran as a triumph, a legal expert warns he may have crossed a line even he might later regret.