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Tories ridiculed for proposing to ban four day week

Chris Jarvis
Yesterday

“Yet again we witness the political gymnastics of this outdated and out of touch Conservative Party descend into a collective swoon over the terrifying prospect of a council functioning better whilst saving the tax-payer money.”

A group of people on a stage with a sign reading four day week

New petition calls for referendum on public ownership of water

Chris Jarvis
Yesterday

Feargal Sharkey is backing the petition

WASP campaigners who have launched the petition for a referendum for public ownership of water

Labour’s achievements this week: Lifting 450,000 children out of poverty and delivering workers’ rights

Basit Mahmood
Yesterday

Change doesn’t happen overnight, yet slowly and surely, this government is delivering after 14 years of Tory austerity

Keir Starmer

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BBC Radio 4 gets into trouble with Rivers of Blood production

Joana Ramiro
12 April, 2018

Listeners were not pleased when the public broadcaster announced it would transmit Enoch Powell’s infamous speech for the first time ever.

Game of Thrones workers are disputing their ‘poverty pay’

Joana Ramiro
12 April, 2018

Game of Thrones producers shell out £10 million per episode, but some of its workers are on poverty pay. 

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The government is removing disabled people’s access to politics by stealth

Emily Brothers
12 April, 2018

Parliamentary candidates are legally challenging the government on cutting a disability fund. Emily Brothers explains why.

Nine months on, here’s how you can support the Grenfell Tower victims

Josiah Mortimer
11 April, 2018

A new poetry collection expresses the deep grief many are still experiencing after the Grenfell disaster. But it also raises funds to help rebuild communities in the aftermath.

Barry Gardiner’s Good Friday Agreement comments reflect Labour’s weakness on Brexit

Molly Scott Cato
11 April, 2018

Claiming the Good Friday Agreement has been ‘played up’ in the Brexit debate was a gross error – but not an isolated one.

Revealed: How investment funds are ripping us off in retirement

Luke Hildyard
11 April, 2018

While new transparency rules are welcome, sky-high pay in city investment firms is costing us all dearly. Until inequality is tackled, we’ll continue to lose out.

The Big Four accountancy firms have long pushed tax avoidance. It’s time for regulation

Prem Sikka
11 April, 2018

Complex tax dodging schemes by the ‘Big Four’ are constantly being thrown out by the courts. But why is nothing done to penalise them?

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Protest over rail public ownership erupts at Kings Cross

Joana Ramiro
10 April, 2018

Activists picketed Britain’s most famous train station, Kings Cross, demanding renationalisation of the much maligned East Coast line.

Campaigns join forces to bring EU voters to the ballot box

Joana Ramiro
10 April, 2018

With a week to go until the voter registration deadline, three social justice groups have teamed up to give migrants a voice.

How Portsmouth is on the way to kicking the Tories out

Claire Udy
10 April, 2018

A young woman is giving the Tories a run for their money in a campaign to unseat the party at the local elections.

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