Left Foot Forward
British Gas’s 12.5 per cent electricity hike will force more into fuel poverty
The number of people in fuel poverty grew from 3.5m to 4m from 2015 to 2016 alone. We need a national response on this unseen issue.
Network Rail is flogging itself off to private firms – we can’t let it happen
Their reforms will take us back twenty years to the disastrous Railtrack era where dodgy contractors put profit before safety, leading to several major rail crashes.
One in five MPs still employ a relative despite ban on practice for new members
The pay of MPs' family members is on average £5,600 higher than other staff, raising obvious questions about nepotism.
Christian group who blocked Trident missile facility win court victory
'Put Down the Sword', a Christian direct-action group, argued in court that their protest drew from Romans 3:8: “You cannot do evil that good may come”.
Anti-semitic Sunday Times column raises institutional questions
How did Kevin Myers' comments get past editors and sub-editors and why was he, a well-known bigot, writing for them in the first place?
Sun claims Labour is run by ‘toffs’ – yet half of Tory MPs are privately educated
The billionaire-owned S*n has some nerve to try and suggest Labour are run by an 'elite'.