Record-number of migrant Channel crossings highlights Rwanda-style policy failings
The number of migrants reaching Britain’s southern coast via the treacherous Channel route continues to rise, despite so-called government ‘deterrents.’
Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Daily Express mocked for journalists voting to strike over pay
‘You couldn’t write it!’
Activists protest Shell’s Jackdaw gas field project as no solution to cost-of-living crisis
‘Gas is now a staggering nine times more expensive than renewables, and we know it wrecks the planet. So it’s absolutely unfathomable that the government is so fixated on gas, when what’s needed for households and for the climate are genuine solutions.’
Government urged to take bolder action to address rising health inequality
As Rishi Sunak plans to charge NHS patients £10 for ‘no shows’, reports show growing disparity in access to healthcare and rising health inequality across the UK.
Thousands sign petition urging government to make fire and rehire illegal
Opposition towards the ‘ruthless’ practice of deliberately firing people to rehire them on worse contracts is gathering momentum.
Internationalist campaigners call for Rees-Mogg to apologise for ‘Dover deceit’
“The Brexit deceitfully sold by Jacob Rees-Mogg and the hard Brexit deal he advocated has negatively impacted almost every sector of our economy. It has made our country poorer and less safe. He must now apologise.”
UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia back on trial next year
A legal challenge over the supply of UK-made weapons for the war in Yemen will proceed to the High Court in January 2023.
‘Reactionary and regressive’: Tory leadership candidates slammed for promising the return of grammar schools
“How anyone can still argue that grammar schools are the magic wand to improve our broken education system beggars belief.”
Petition to protect the right to strike garners thousands of signatures
As Truss and Sunak are branded “Thatcher tribute acts” for threatening the right to strike, momentum builds to secure this fundamental right.
Calls grow to bring energy back into public ownership, as companies report record-breaking profit
Reports of record-breaking profit for energy giants amid surging energy prices for households and a cost-of-living crisis, has sparked criticism and calls for energy to be brought into public ownership.