A Tory donor just got handed a peerage and a ministerial post
Here’s what we know about the new Schools Minister, Theodore Agnew.
Monthly Archives: September 2017
Care workers are now too rushed to help vulnerable people with essential tasks
Amid cuts and growing workloads, Britain’s overstretched care workers are unable to do their jobs properly. It’s the most vulnerable who lose out.
Campaigners just stepped up the legal battle against Murdoch’s takeover of Sky
Avaaz are taking Ofcom to court after they gave Fox News a clear bill of health – despite the company being ridden with scandal.
The government are on the verge of defeat over a key welfare reform
Now Tory MPs are in open rebellion over the DWP’s botched benefit plans. Will Theresa May cave?
Patients not passports: the Tories must stop restricting migrants’ access to healthcare
Some NHS funded charities will now be forced to turn vulnerable migrants away.
Being a mother in Tory Britain is an uphill battle. Here’s what would make it better
Parents are among the worst affected by austerity policies, we need to think outside the box to make things better for them.
The Tories’ plans on free childcare will only widen inequality in the UK
Quantity over quality in early years education is damaging to the poorest children.
The spread of precarious work is a political choice. We have to be bold in tackling it
Green co-leader Jonathan Bartley says we must be radical in responding to the gig economy – so that workers don’t just survive, but thrive.
Rather than celebrating Uber job losses, unions should be putting forward alternatives
The choice doesn’t have to be between an exploitative gig economy and no jobs at all. It’s time for progressives to come up with solutions.
There can be no return to old-style nationalisation – thankfully the left is moving on
21st-century public services must be responsive and democratic. We have to look at new ways to ‘take back control’.