Immigration key to solving Britain’s construction crisis – say experts
‘The government has assumed restricting migrant workers will lead to higher wages and productivity but that doesn’t happen automatically.’
Yearly Archives: 2025
Corporate America’s MAGA makeover – will the UK follow suit?
Resistance will require strong political leadership from progressive politicians in the UK and in Europe to withstand the hopelessly short term and contradictory bombast of Trumpian politics.
As energy prices soar in Britain, Spain keeps bills low with renewable energy
Overall costs of electricity, heating, cooling, water and waste disposal are 40 percent cheaper in Spain, where the cost of living is, on average, 26.5 percent lower than in the UK.
Major new survey finds overwhelming support for UK-EU Youth Mobility Scheme, including in Nigel Farage and Lee Anderson’s constituencies
‘This is the clearest evidence yet that an EU-UK Youth Mobility scheme is among the least controversial issues in the government’s relationship reset with the EU, even in places that elected a Reform UK member of parliament.’
The boys are back in town: reflections on the psychology of Trumpworld
How did a cluster of toxic, binary attitudes get from the heads of small boys and Silicon Valley into the heart of Trump’s administration?
Wes Streeting says NHS is ‘not up for grabs’ in context of UK-U.S. trade deal
“The NHS is not up for grabs, it’s not on the table in the context of trade, but there are a number of areas where we can and should work together to deepen the trading relationship between our two countries.”
Austerity under Labour is still austerity
Four Green Councillors set out the continuing state of the local government funding crisis
Anneliese Dodds resigns from cabinet over aid cuts which will ‘remove food and healthcare from desperate people’
Dodds has said that increased defence spending can’t be achieved through ‘tactical cuts’
Keir Starmer praised for correcting JD Vance over his false ‘infringements on free speech in UK’ claim
“We’ve had free speech for a very long time in the UK and it will last a long time, and we are very proud of that”.
Labour should scrap permitted development rights to tackle the housing crisis
Homes created under PDRs are also more likely to be in places with little access to green spaces, or in places with less access to public transport – compared to properties built with planning permission.