New map shows parts of UK where millions struggle to access food
In one local authority 14 percent of people are classed as hungry and 30 percent are struggling to access food
Left Foot Forward
Behind last week’s media hype over migrant Channel crossings
Priti Patel last week pushed the harshest law yet over right to claim asylum as right-wing press agitated once again over Channel crossings
EXCLUSIVE: TfL unable to issue fines for mask dodgers after Johnson strips its powers
London Assembly Labour’s travel spokesperson expresses concern over mask-wearing, now that Johnson has deprived TfL of sanction powers.
Ministers have launched an assault on our already-ailing democracy
From mandatory ID to unjust changes to the voting system, the government is rolling back our rights.
Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 3, July 2021
The news you didn’t see this week…
Labour tells government to ‘get a grip’ over mixed messages on Covid isolation
Ministers have been going around saying the public do not need to isolate when, um, told to isolate by the NHS Covid-19 app.
DAMNING report from HM Prisons Inspector finds ‘shambolic’ outsourcing failings
Priti Patel’s department didn’t even know the location of all its short-term holding facilities for refugees.
UnionDues: ‘Industry without art is brutality’ – meeting the Artists Union of England
Many of their members got no support from the coronavirus income protection schemes, Simon Sapper writes.
Health and social care workers ‘appalled’ at exemption from self-isolation
From today, frontline NHS and social care staff in England won’t have to isolate after being pinged by the app
Ken Loach and Bakers’ Union president could be expelled from the Labour Party on Tuesday
Certain left-wing groups are set to be proscribed from the Labour Party as Sir Keir Starmer pushes to get rid of “toxic extremism”.