Natalie Bennett: Schools, prison, welfare: they’re still Victorian in style
Social innovation is possible. It is happening in a fast-changing, multi-challenge world of environmental and social crisis. Just not in the UK.
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Paul Nowak: With its New Deal, Labour have shown they will stand up for working-class communities
There are no two ways about it – working people have been abandoned by the Conservatives. It’s time for a reset.
Governments need to break with fossil fuel addiction to tackle the climate crisis
The brutal truth as we reflect on COP28 is that we are far from where we need to be to prevent catastrophic climate change
Wera Hobhouse MP: Sustainable aviation fuel is “a game changer for the future of green transport”
‘One of the biggest obstacles to decarbonising the aviation industry is the amount of jet fuel being used per flight.’
We must make the moral and pragmatic case for ending child poverty
Child poverty doesn’t just mean having less opportunities and less access to goods and services growing up. Its effects are long term and in many cases last a lifetime.
The government has stolen the right to strike from millions of workers
The conscription of workers is an abuse of state power and the government is openly pursuing anti-worker policies.
First, Selby and Ainsty. Then, Mid Bedfordshire. Rural communities are no longer Tory heartlands.
The next election offers an opportunity for Labour to persuade rural Britain to back them in considerably larger numbers.
Prem Sikka: How the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill is the government’s latest erosion of hard-won rights
‘The Bill only targets the less well-off. There is no equivalent surveillance of legislators who accept payments to advance the interests of their corporate paymasters.’
We need to get real about the risks and possibilities of self-driving cars
‘If you put self-driving into the equation, you potentially massively increase the climate impacts.’
Paul Nowak: The Tories are today back doing what they enjoy most: Attacking unions
Let’s be clear. These Conservative anti-strike laws are a dog’s dinner – they’re shambolic and unworkable and will frustrate employers, workers and unions alike.