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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
Yesterday

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Yesterday

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Latest Posts

NHS staff are fighting back against outsourcing to ‘arms length’ companies

Charlotte England
1 February, 2018

Up to 1,650 local hospital staff across two different NHS trusts face transfer to subsidiary companies, where unions worry their employment rights could be eroded away.

Privatising while Rome burns: Why we need a moratorium on outsourcing

Josiah Mortimer
31 January, 2018

As the MoD launch plans to flog off their fire service, unions are warning another Carillion-style collapse could be round the corner.

History shows that Labour has always been a party of compromise

Tom Pashby
31 January, 2018

Tom Pashby reviews an upcoming book on the Labour party and asks: ‘Is Labour finally becoming a socialist party – albeit one with centrists in it?’

The Carillion scandal shows it’s time to end the stitch-up of ‘commercial sensitivity’

Prem Sikka
31 January, 2018

To spot disasters before they occur, we need to reform our laws on corporate confidentiality.

Save our NHS campaign

No one is kicking off about this NHS privatisation – but they should be

Josiah Mortimer
31 January, 2018

Billions of pounds of NHS land and property is being sold off. Have we learnt nothing from the disasters of the past?

The leaked Brexit impact papers make the case for a second referendum stronger than ever

Keith Taylor
30 January, 2018

The official analysis shows Britain will be worse off under every Brexit outcome. Now the public know the facts, it would be fair to give them another vote.

We’re developing an ethical alternative to Uber that’s owned by its drivers

Stefan Baskerville
30 January, 2018

CabFair aims to keep transport accessible, low-cost, and convenient without fuelling the gig economy — and according to our polling, the public support the idea.

Tory grassroots confidence in May hits new low as PM faces backbench and donor despair

Oscar Webb
30 January, 2018

The PM is lacks support at every level on the party. How much longer can this zombie government stagger on for?

Leaving the Single Market and the Customs Union will not promote fairer trade

John Monks
30 January, 2018

Advocates of ‘Lexit’ are wrong on almost every one of their arguments.

Boris Johnson is lining up his ‘hug a husky’ moment. Don’t be fooled on his green credentials

Jenny Jones
29 January, 2018

Like May and Gove, Johnson is limbering up for a green rebrand – here’s his actual record.

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