9,300 Met police staff cut under the Tories say GMB Union
Analysis of Home Office data by the union shows a ‘shocking’ reduction in support staff.
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The UK’s regulatory maze benefits the powerful. It’s time for an overhaul
No fewer than 25 regulators deal with money laundering alone yet London is a major centre for dirty money, points out Prem Sikka.
‘Time to rein in rogue landlords’ – over 5,000 sign petition for regulation
Over 5000 people have signed a petition calling for landlords to face stricter regulation in order to ensure tenants are renting safe homes. The petition calls for a national register of all landlords in England to be kept and made … Continued
Outsourced Unison staff at UCL win better terms in time for Christmas
University agrees to equalise pay, pensions and leave for outsourced workers, including an offer of two weeks of additional annual leave from 1 December.
Parlour games and puff: the press are failing us on Brexit
What the UK needs is responsible journalism to hold politicians to account and insist that government actions are fully scrutinised, says Mary MacCallum Sullivan.
After a decade of bailouts, it’s time for business to “bail in” to fight climate and social crisis
Business need to ‘bail in’ to help avert the biggest theats to our way of life. And governments can help them do so.
How the sexist ‘Nobel Prize’ in economics has warped the world
It’s time for new thinking from this so-called Nobel prize.
Don’t let the Nobel Prizes fool you: central banks are political
Monetary policy shouldn’t be left to technocrats, writes Hannah Dewhurst In the run up to the October 14th Economics prize announcement.
The fake Nobel Prize that helped neoliberalism conquer the world
The economics prize – named after the inventor of dynamite – has helped destroy social democracy. A new award #NotTheNobel can set us back on track.
How public space orders and the Vagrancy Act hurt the homeless
“Trying to punish and fine people out of poverty is counterproductive and displays a complete failure to engage with the complex social problems at the heart of this issue.”