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The UK’s tax system is regressive, rewards the wealthy and is in urgent need of reform

Prem Sikka
1 April, 2022

‘The UK tax system is regressive. It penalises workers, pensioners and their families. It rewards speculators and rentiers. It favours financial speculation over the hard graft of work’

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Energy crisis: A 5-point plan to meet the UK’s energy needs

Basit Mahmood
1 April, 2022

5 steps the country could take to ensure a cleaner and more affordable future.

A photo of coins on top of an article explaining that Energy companies are raising prices

2.5 million households with children in fuel poverty after new energy price cap comes into effect

Basit Mahmood
1 April, 2022

Over half (55.7%) of lone-parent households (855,938) will be in fuel poverty from today

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern

What the UK could learn from New Zealand’s planned labour laws

Tony Burke
1 April, 2022

Jacinda Ardern’s Government has introduced legislation to enable industry-wide collective bargaining

Margaret Thatcher

Tory minister shows support for the creation of a national ‘Margaret Thatcher day’

Basit Mahmood
31 March, 2022

‘Celebrations to include ritual milk stealing and the annual rendering of 3.6 million people unemployed’

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Global banks provided $742bn in fossil fuel financing despite their climate pledges

Basit Mahmood
31 March, 2022

In the six years since the adoption of the Paris Agreement, the world’s 60 largest private sector banks financed fossil fuels with $4.6 trillion.

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Diane Abbott MP: This crisis of living standards is government made

Diane Abbott
31 March, 2022

‘History suggests that political upheaval is very likely to follow. The Labour government of 1997, for example, was ushered in on the back of rising food prices.’

Bill Wiggin

Tory MP condemned after telling Boris Johnson UK should only accept ‘right’ sort of migrants

Basit Mahmood
31 March, 2022

‘We want Ukrainians, we want Qataris, we don’t want people in rubber boats’. said Sir Bill Wiggin

Radical Roundup

Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 5, March 2022

Basit Mahmood
30 March, 2022

The news you didn’t seek this week…

Starmer

PMQs: ‘The Ministerial code says those who mislead the House should resign – why’s he still here?’ Starmer asks Johnson

Basit Mahmood
30 March, 2022

‘He told the house, no rules were broken in Downing Street during lockdown. The police have now concluded there was widespread criminality. The ministerial code says that ministers who knowingly mislead the house should resign.’

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