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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (2 days ago)

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Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (2 days ago)

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Greens hit back at Owen Jones’ call for merger with the Labour Party

Josiah Mortimer
23 February, 2018

Members are not happy with the journalist’s call for Caroline Lucas’ party to call it a day.

Bank branch closures are pushing the poorest communities into the hands of payday lenders

Gareth Thomas
22 February, 2018

Highstreet banks should be compelled to lend in all the communities from which they are taking deposits, says Gareth Thomas MP.

Bosses are keeping workers on zero hours contracts for years. This is how precarity becomes normalised

Anjum Klair
22 February, 2018

And most don’t choose this ‘flexibility’: the vast majority would prefer a job with fixed hours, a new poll shows.

Like thousands of Palestinian children, Ahed Tamimi is denied justice by Israel. Here are the facts

Keith Taylor
22 February, 2018

Every year, between 500 and 700 children are being denied their fundamental human right to a fair trial in Israel.

Student solidarity: over 60% of students support striking university staff

22 February, 2018

And just 2% think university staff are to blame for the industrial action, a YouGov poll found this morning.

Here are the facts on those Corbyn ‘spy’ claims

Dan Lomas
21 February, 2018

Intelligence and Security academic Dan Lomas provides all the evidence you need that The Sun’s smears are just that: more lies from the hard right.

The new Culture Secretary should ‘do a Gove’ by taking real action on gambling

Natalie Bennett
21 February, 2018

Forget the Matt Hancock app – the DCMS boss should make his name by tackling the scourge of Fixed Odds Betting Terminals, writes Natalie Bennett.

The Women’s Equality Party have sacked a feminist academic over this transgender debate

Josiah Mortimer
21 February, 2018

Dr Heather Brunskell-Evans had been attacked as transphobic, after criticising the idea that people can be ‘born in the wrong body’.

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This secretive Tory group is stepping up its campaign for a slash-and-burn Brexit

Josiah Mortimer
21 February, 2018

Where are the Tory mutineers when we need them?

Corbyn’s foreign policy views are regressive – and the Left need to wake up to it

Rabbil Sikdar
20 February, 2018

The Labour leader’s views centre around dogmatic anti-imperialism, blinding him again and again to the crimes of regimes opposed to America.

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