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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (2 weeks ago)

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23 December, 2025 (2 weeks ago)

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The Welsh Assembly has abolished most of the Tories’ divisive Trade Union Act. But workers’ rights in Wales aren’t safe just yet.

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Josiah Mortimer
19 July, 2017

Something is up when a backbench group of Conservatives can stop citizens from engaging with Parliament.

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