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Opinion

Pregnancy
Opinion

The health in pregnancy grant worked. November’s budget should restore it.

Ben Cooper
17 September, 2025

The government’s plan for change is clear in its determination to give every child the best start in life. Restoring the health in pregnancy grant would be a relatively low-cost, proven mechanism to do this.

Keir Starmer
Opinion

Why the reshuffle alone won’t change the government’s fortunes

Prem Sikka
12 September, 2025

“For better electoral fortunes, the government needs to junk neoliberal policies, never-ending austerity; directly invest in infrastructure and redistribute income and wealth.”

Opinion

Digital ID can help rebuild trust in government and restore fairness to the economy

Patrick Hurley
7 September, 2025

‘What we can do is build a system that works for the public good – one that saves money, boosts security, fights fraud, and unlocks economic growth.’

A side on photo of Rachel Reeves outside Number 11 Downing Street
Opinion

How successive governments have created a new rentier economy

Prem Sikka
5 September, 2025

Governments appease corporations and the super-rich by following the old policies which benefit a few. 

workers rights
Opinion

New employment rights will make defining an employee more important than ever

Luke Raikes
1 September, 2025

‘It is now more important than ever to address a surprisingly difficult question: who will be entitled to these employment rights’

Nationality and Borders Bill
Opinion

Reform’s fear-mongering headlines: How would WE want to be treated if we had to flee for our lives?

Lisa Matthews
29 August, 2025

Farage’s mass deportation policy would rip families apart and directly threaten children and young people’s safety

Nigel Farage announcing his mass deportation plan
Opinion

Nigel Farage’s weaponisation of women’s safety to further his anti-immigration stance is harmful to us all

Carenza Arnold
29 August, 2025

‘To use women’s lives as a political prop while simultaneously advocating for politics that would harm them is hypocrisy at its ugliest.’

Nigel Farage announcing his mass deportation plan
Opinion

4 reasons Nigel Farage’s draconian mass deportation plan would not work

Olivia Barber
28 August, 2025

You only need to think back to the Tories’ failed Rwanda scheme to see just how unworkable these proposals are

A row of houses UK
Opinion

Labour Must Shut Down the HMO Scandal

Gavin Callaghan
25 August, 2025

We cannot afford to let our own working class families be thrown out of their homes to make way for asylum HMOs.

Green Party co-leader Adrian Ramsay
Opinion

Adrian Ramsay’s success could be the reason for his downfall

Chris Jarvis
31 July, 2025

Has the Green Party’s success under Adrian Ramsay’s leadership opened the door to Zack Polanski’s more ambitious leadership bid?

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