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We will be returning on Monday 5th January with more hard-hitting news and comment, written by and for the UK left.
1.6 million fewer people aged 24-44 bought a home compared to a generation ago — and 1.8 million more of us are renting privately.
I witnessed a 79-year-old woman being kettled by a dozen officers for making tea. Keith Taylor, Green MEP, reports from Kirby Misperton in Yorkshire.
The Parliamentary authorities should strip anti-union firms from any involvement in restoring this national monument.
Last week it emerged that Momentum – the grassroots movement supporting Jeremy Corbyn – now has over 30,000 members. But how many of those are in a trade union?
Ahead of next week’s meeting of EU leaders, Richard Corbett MEP, Labour’s acting leader in the European Parliament, looks are where we are. It isn’t looking good.
Deliveroo are resisting better conditions on the grounds that it would push up prices. Customers should call their bluff and and be willing to cough up.
More than half of London’s LGBTQ+ spaces have closed since 2006, but a version of the Joiners Arms will now stay open for 25 years.
Radio station accused of ‘surpassing gotcha journalism’ and relying on ‘false equivalency’, with suggestion that charging prospective party members a premium rate to join Labour is the same as forcing destitute benefits claimants to call 55p a minute line for food money.
Participation in after school activities like volunteering and debating is falling, especially among children from disadvantaged backgrounds.
We now have an insurgent left-wing Labour party in this country – does this make the Greens redundant?
