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Housing activist exposes truth about ‘landlords leaving the market’ over Renters’ Right Act

Basit Mahmood
2 April, 2026 (2 days ago)

Landlord groups have claimed that many are leaving the market because of over-regulation.

Martin Mawdsley from ACORN Liverpool

Your Party to focus on backing independent candidates in the upcoming local elections

Olivia Barber
2 April, 2026 (2 days ago)

The new left-wing outfit won’t be fielding its own candidates

Jeremy Corbyn speaking at Your Party Conference

Reform UK candidate expresses admiration for Oswald Mosley and wants to keep migrants in slave labour

Basit Mahmood
2 April, 2026 (2 days ago)

These are the kinds of people Reform is putting up for election.

Arnold-Tabor

Latest Posts

Bathroom mushrooms and surprise evictions: UK private renters’ woes go viral

Joana Ramiro
20 August, 2018

Research revealed how “no-fault evictions” are the number one cause of homelessness in England. Now people are taking to social media with their nightmare stories.

Bad bankers: Lehman Brothers throwing a 2008 crash party (and other feckless financier scandals)

Joana Ramiro
20 August, 2018

Disgraced financiers are holding a ‘secret party’ on the 10th anniversary of the financial crash. But the “sickening” event certainly isn’t the first case of bankers’ boorishness.

Anti fracking protesters

Fracking: How an industry and the government are working against the people

Natalie Bennett
17 August, 2018

The Tories are overriding objections to new dirty energy sources. But they will not win.

Four ways Labour can improve its culture – and build a truly democratic party

Omar Salem
17 August, 2018

Labour’s Democracy Review must be about more than the ‘nuts and bolts’ of our party, writes Omar Salem.

From the Tees Valley to Cornwall, politicians are hoping to fix Britain’s privatised bus system

Josiah Mortimer
17 August, 2018

Across the country, authorities are hoping to use new powers to bring the ‘London model’ for running Britain’s buses into force.

Why didn’t UK regulators spot the rot at the heart of British banks?

Prem Sikka
17 August, 2018

US investigators have revealed the scandalous culture in RBS ahead of the financial crash. But where were British regulators?

Anti-Brexit activists just launched a mock campaign to elect a Labour MP as new Tory leader

Joana Ramiro
16 August, 2018

She has vowed to stay on, despite her local Labour’s vote of no-confidence. But could Kate Hoey become the next Conservative leader?

Ambulance driving volunteers? Thanks, but no thanks

Alex Mayer
16 August, 2018

With a shaky history of patient support, the East of England Ambulance Trust is planning to bring in volunteers to drive emergency vehicles. Alex Mayer MEP gives the plan a red light.

Fresh poll reveals: One in six Brits don’t trust the banks

Simon Youel
16 August, 2018

A decade after the financial crash of 2008, the majority of the British public still doesn’t trust banks. Simon Youel explains what needs to change.

Social housing

These figures reveal how the government has left social housing tenants behind

Kevin Gulliver
15 August, 2018

A year on from Grenfell, the Tories’ new Green Paper on social housing will barely cover the cracks when it comes to the growing precariousness faced by tenants.

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