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Yearly Archives: 2025

Trade unions against hate, PCS union

HeartUnions Week: Labour’s Employment Rights Bill: We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to secure Workplace Rights

Maria Exall
12 February, 2025

The Employment Rights Bill is just the start. Every commitment must be enforced in workplaces, not just written into law. There can be no delays, no loopholes, and no backtracking.

News

Migrant care staff charged up to £20,000 in illegal fees to work, UNISON finds

Olivia Barber
12 February, 2025

‘Care staff who come here from overseas are shoring up a crumbling sector. These workers should be treated with respect’

Workers in London
News

Dozen Labour MPs push for four-day week to be included in Government’s flagship Employment Right’s Bill

Basit Mahmood
11 February, 2025

Flexible working campaigners say the current proposals around flexible working contained in the Employment Right’s Bill do not go far enough

EU
News

Closer alignment with the EU means the UK could be ‘£26bn better off’, new data shows

Basit Mahmood
11 February, 2025

The figures being cited by the Frontier Economics would mean the UK would recover between a quarter and a half of Brexit’s economic hit to UK GDP

Sharaa
Opinion

Syria: What should the UK do now?

Eve McQuillan
11 February, 2025

If politicians want to see a stable and secure Syria, they should use the UK’s levers and influence to give Syrians the best chance of building it.

Kemi Badenoch
News

Voters give brutal assessment of Kemi Badenoch’s first 100 days in office, poll finds

Basit Mahmood
11 February, 2025

Just one in seven voters think Kemi Badenoch looks like a Prime Minister in waiting

A photo of Nigel Farage wearing a headset as he appears on LBC Radio
News

‘Man of the people’ Nigel Farage spent Christmas selling £27,342 of personalised videos 

Basit Mahmood
10 February, 2025

He charges his followers £76.95 per recording for personalised messages on the Cameo app.

News

Niger Delta inhabitants take Shell to UK high court after 10-year battle for justice

Olivia Barber
10 February, 2025

The British oil giant has repeatedly delayed the case, claiming it has no legal responsibility for any of the pollution

A photo of Keir Starmer speaking at Prime Minister's Questions today
Opinion

Labour must not let the polls spook it into chasing Reform rightwards

Salman Shaheen
10 February, 2025

If Labour try to act like a slightly nicer version of Reform, it’s not going to win over the 90% of Reform’s voters who would vote Reform anyway

Nigel Farage Clacton
News

Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage to speak at climate denial ‘festival’

Olivia Barber
10 February, 2025

‘This is like Glastonbury for climate science deniers, Trump acolytes, manosphere enthusiasts and nihilists in general’

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