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Scrapping the public sector pay cap wouldn’t cost half as much as you’d think…
New research shows the headline price of a pay rise for our nurses, teachers and civil servants doesn’t tell the whole picture.
The UK left has totally misread the Catalan crisis
British progressives have been quick to jump on the pro-independence bandwagon – without assessing the real situation.
Here’s why immigration detention is pointless – as well as cruel
The Government is detaining more migrants each year but deporting proportionally fewer, wasting money in the process and causing unnecessary harm to thousands of people.
These groups will be hit hardest by changes to Universal Credit
Yet again, changes to the benefit system will be disproportionately detrimental to women and people from ethnic minority groups.
Climate campaigners disrupt Mayor’s questions over ‘broken promises’
A London-based activist group swarmed City Hall this morning, to make sure the Mayor keeps his promises on saving the environment.
It’s official: Free schools have failed to deliver
Academies – one of the coalition’s flagship policies in 2010 – have not lived up to any of Michael Gove’s big promises, a new report has found.
Nigel Farage just withdrew this libel against anti-racism campaigners
The Brexiteer then desperately took to Twitter to moan about the group again. Diddums.
Vince Cable: I was asked to lead a new pro-Remain party. Here’s why I said no
The ‘pop-up’ anti-Brexit parties have little real interest in democratic politics in the UK. Voters should beware.
The end of trade unions isn’t inevitable – but it is possible. Here’s how they can reverse the decline
A new report sets out a plan to reverse the union movement’s decline. Leaders should listen closely.
Why we can’t afford to build a new runway
The big airports have invented a so-called ‘capacity crisis’. But the real crisis is with our climate, as news emerges that emissions are set to rise.