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Tories ridiculed for proposing to ban four day week

Chris Jarvis
Yesterday

“Yet again we witness the political gymnastics of this outdated and out of touch Conservative Party descend into a collective swoon over the terrifying prospect of a council functioning better whilst saving the tax-payer money.”

A group of people on a stage with a sign reading four day week

New petition calls for referendum on public ownership of water

Chris Jarvis
Yesterday

Feargal Sharkey is backing the petition

WASP campaigners who have launched the petition for a referendum for public ownership of water

Labour’s achievements this week: Lifting 450,000 children out of poverty and delivering workers’ rights

Basit Mahmood
Yesterday

Change doesn’t happen overnight, yet slowly and surely, this government is delivering after 14 years of Tory austerity

Keir Starmer

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Reform UK leader Nigel Farage in the House of Commons

Nigel Farage says he has ‘no idea’ six times over Reform mayor’s 600% allowance hike

Basit Mahmood
21 July, 2025

So much for cutting costs for taxpayers’, clueless Farage doesn’t even know what his own party is up to.

Nigel Farage

‘I don’t know’: Nigel Farage appears clueless in his most humiliating interview yet

Basit Mahmood
21 July, 2025

‘I don’t know, I haven’t sat in the negotiations but a completely different mind-set is needed.’

Woke bashing of the week: Pink panic: Sun spins Jaguar’s pink car into culture war fodder

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
20 July, 2025

Yet another cynical attempt by a right-wing tabloid to turn a brand it has a grudge against into fodder for a culture war tirade.

Daily Mail and Sun

Right-wing media watch – Daily Mail is America’s top news brand on TikTok – yes really!

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
20 July, 2025

The Daily Mail, Britain’s most notorious right-wing newspaper, is now the most-engaged news brand on TikTok in America.

wealth tax
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Most Brits support a wealth tax – so, which European countries have one?

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
20 July, 2025

Britain is one of the most unequal countries in the OECD. The richest 10 percent of households hold 43 percent of all the country’s wealth, while the poorest half own just 9 percent.

UK was not fully prepared for the Covid pandemic
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Nurses’ pay has been ‘severely eroded’ since 2010, new analysis shows

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
19 July, 2025

“It is time to deliver both better pay and pay modernisation for nursing staff.”

Right-Wing Watch

From Project 2025 to Project Esther: the Heritage Foundation’s authoritarian global crusade

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
19 July, 2025

Project Esther is Heritage’s latest ideological weapon. Framed as an effort to combat antisemitism, it aims to criminalise pro-Palestinian activism and equates criticism of Israel with support for terrorism.

News

Activists read names of 20,000 Palestinian children killed in Gaza outside Welsh government

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
19 July, 2025

“Each was precious. Each was innocent. Many died horrific, painful deaths. There were so many of them. They must not be forgotten.”

The Leader of the House Lucy Powell
News

Lucy Powell says suspended Labour MPs could return to PLP in the future

Olivia Barber
18 July, 2025

‘These are matters for the chief whip, but there’s always routes back for people.’

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage in the House of Commons

Reform in crisis: Councillor expelled from party

Basit Mahmood
18 July, 2025

The latest incident is part of a long list of Reform councillors elected in May who are no longer part of the party.

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