Thames Water fine reprieve sparks outrage over “rewarding failure”
“This nonsense must be, should be, has to be and will be opposed.”
Woke-bashing of the week: The great Easter ‘outrage’ that wasn’t
It’s a depressingly familiar pattern, a carefully framed image, paired with a provocative narrative, travels faster than the truth, especially when it taps into pre-existing grievances about so-called ‘wokeness.’
Right-wing media watch – War, what war? The Express chooses Farage fan adulation over reality
Brown’s account of Farage’s campaign stops borders on the reverential. Even anonymous praise from a party candidate, “he’s going to change everything for the better,” is relayed without challenge.
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Virgin Care just sued the NHS for a fortune – but the Tories and Lib Dems made it possible
Richard Branson’s company won a legal battle against a cash-strapped health service – over a tendering process we never should have had.
Extremist content is growing online and the public blame social media companies
76 per cent of the British public think Facebook and Twitter aren’t doing enough to curb extremist content on their platforms.
Brexit: there is no “exit fee”, but there are liabilities
Don’t let hardline Brexiteers hijack this issue.
Breaking: campaigners have occupied a controversial oil drilling site in Surrey
Activists say they have set up a “protection camp” to stop drilling which is due to begin imminently.
New methods of persuasion and propaganda define our political age. Is democracy threatened?
Tom Pashby reviews Lee de-Wit’s new book ‘What’s Your Bias?: The Surprising Science of Why We Vote the Way We Do’.
The government’s industrial strategy relies on a totally discredited economic model
Theresa May is relying on ‘free trade’ and Thatcherite economic policy to revive British industry. It will do no such thing.
This European Court decision could be a game-changer for workers rights…
Bogus self-employment could soon become a thing of the past after a major ECJ ruling. That is, until workers’ rights are torn up post-Brexit.
I don’t care what it’s celebrating – just give us another bank holiday
This isn’t about Harry or Meghan, as nice as I’m sure they are. The point is that overworked, underpaid Brits need more bank holidays – full stop.
Jonathan Bartley: HS2 is an environmental disaster – we have to stop it in its tracks
Why I’m backing direct action against this expensive attack on nature.
Five times Katie Hopkins obviously should have been sacked – but wasn’t
A brief recap some of the bile and hatred Hopkins has spouted that show she is totally discredited as a ‘journalist’.