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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025

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23 December, 2025

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Latest Posts

The Conservatives and the DUP are now at loggerheads over the Irish border

Ed Jacobs
4 October, 2017

While May rules out hard borders, the Tories’ bed partners in Westminster are now openly contradicting her.

Tory plans for Help-to-Buy are a dangerous distraction from our real housing needs

Kevin Gulliver
4 October, 2017

Whatever Theresa May says in her speech today, the Conservatives have got their priorities wrong by pumping billions into counterproductive housing policies.

Jeremy Hunt will ‘bring the gig economy into the NHS’ with new health worker app

3 October, 2017

The health secretary just announced a new NHS app to help staff ‘do extra hours at short notice’.

Real sovereignty had already been built on the streets of Catalonia well before the referendum

Kate Shea Baird
3 October, 2017

The ‘revolt’ against Madrid follows years of grassroots movements empowering people at a local, neighbourhood level.

Picturehouse strikers set for nine-day walkout despite bosses’ sack threat

3 October, 2017

Hundreds of workers will walk out tomorrow, disrupting the BFI’s London film festival, demanding the living wage, union recognition and the reinstatement of sacked strikers.

Corrupt and ineffective regulation means financial scandals are all but inevitable in the UK

Prem Sikka
3 October, 2017

The Financial Reporting Council responsible for regulating accountants and auditors has deep conflicts of interest at its core.

Monarch’s collapse is due to a wider drop in demand — just another reason to halt airport expansion

Dan Chester
2 October, 2017

Growth in aviation passenger numbers is dropping and costs to airlines increasing. Now’s the time the up the campaign against Heathrow expansion.

Conservative Party must ‘urgently follow’ Labour if it wants to survive — Tory think tank

2 October, 2017

The Bow Group are calling for a Labour-style ‘revolution’ in the party to turn it into a ‘genuinely popular movement’.

Social democrats across Europe face electoral disaster. Labour is bucking the trend

Diane Abbott
2 October, 2017

Why? We’ve offered an alternative to austerity and have refused to pander to racism, writes Diane Abbott.

The Conservatives have lost a quarter of their members over the past year, says Tory blog

2 October, 2017

Labour have gained 380,000 new members since 2015 in contrast. How can the Tories even pretend they’re a party of the people now?

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