Shadow Chancellor calls for ‘new banking eco-system’ to tackle climate change
Labour are stepping up their climate policies.
Yearly Archives: 2019
Why Boris Johnson’s No Deal Brexit plan will be his downfall
While the Tory front-runner refuses to debate his Brexit policies in public, his own colleagues are rightly tearing them apart.
The Mark Field assault case – and why pacifists should keep disrupting dinners
We won’t defeat climate change, war and poverty by asking the likes of Mark Field to throw us a few crumbs from the table.
Refugee Week: The government is engaged in shameful hypocrisy over ‘integration’
Funding for English courses has been halved in a decade…while ministers lecture migrants and refugees about ‘integration’.
‘Gig economy’ union secures landmark victory over NHS courier firm
Strikes have been called off after a historic win for workers at The Doctors Laboratory.
BAME communities are still being hit hardest by hostile Tory policies
A recent UN report shows in devastating detail how black and minority ethnic communities have been hit by the UK government.
Outrage as DWP says correct policy was followed in denying dying man benefits
“What kind of ‘policy’ cannot recognise that somebody is seriously ill & dying? As a doctor, I say this is barbaric.”
Government must improve refugee family reunions urgently, say MPs
A proposed bill would scrap current “inhumane” policies and provide a safe and legal pathway for refugee families to reunite.
Meet the communities protecting Britain’s trees
A hundred years ago, Parliament passed the Forestry Act, creating the Forestry Commission and in turn helping to double woodland cover to its current level.
I voted leave, now I’m taking on Brexit lawbreakers
The people writing the rule books that protect our democracy are only belatedly getting to grips with a new reality of technology that enables rule breaking.