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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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Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (2 weeks ago)

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Neoliberalism killed youth politics. Are the kids now taking their revenge?

Bradley Allsop
6 July, 2017

Neoliberalism’s success has been to destroy the idea that politics can change anything, this is particularly true of younger generations who can remember no alternative.

Disposable income falling at fastest rate in six years

6 July, 2017

Real household income, a key measure of living standards, fell by 2 per cent in the first quarter of 2017.

5 reasons you should be following the Picturehouse strike

Oscar Webb
6 July, 2017

It’s growing fast: the strikers in Brixton have been joined by workers from Picturehouses in Leicester Square, Hackney, Crouch End, Dulwich and Brighton.

A student rent strike just won £1.5m from their university

Oscar Webb
6 July, 2017

Students at UCL have won a historic victory, with a huge concession from management.. Striking works.

Is it time for the Green Party to affiliate to Labour?

Mike Shaughnessy
5 July, 2017

Nearly a month on from the election, talk is growing about the prospect of Labour and the Greens formally uniting.

May’s magic money tree: Here are 5 Tory tax cuts for the rich #PMQs

Josiah Mortimer
5 July, 2017

The PM can talk about Labour’s recklessness with money all she wants – it’s the Tories who have been throwing cash away.

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5 July, 2017

The Tories’ new East Midlands MEP Rupert Matthews is yet more evidence we live in strange times. Supernatural times, even…

Here are the aristocrats in the running to vote on our laws for life

5 July, 2017

A hereditary peer by-election is everything you’d expect it to be. And worse.

Who’s to blame this time for the Stormont deadlock? The pundits speak

Ed Jacobs
4 July, 2017

In the House of Commons yesterday, the Northern Ireland Secretary, James Brokenshire, plunged discussions over re-establishing a power sharing executive at Stormont into limbo. By failing to provide a deadline for talks to reach a conclusion, ruling out a furthertest

Councils face £5.8bn funding blackhole by 2020 warns Tory Peer

Oscar Webb
4 July, 2017

It’s impossible to cut local services further, the Local Government Association says

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