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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (2 days ago)

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Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (2 days ago)

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Ruby Stockham
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There are concerns that the money is not being distributed effectively

‘Britain First’: Telegraph recycles fascist slogan with terrible history

Adam Barnett
9 October, 2015

This is a good lesson in how not to debate the European Union

Standing against Britain’s sickening complicity over the crucifixion of a Saudi child

Richard Howitt
9 October, 2015

Labour has successfully proposed a European Parliament resolution calling for Ali Mohammed al-Nimr to be pardoned

5 worrying things in the Resolution Foundation’s report on child poverty

Ruby Stockham
8 October, 2015

The think tank predicts that welfare reforms will push 600,000 families into poverty

David Cameron’s assault on poverty doesn’t extend to the homeless

Ryan Maynes
8 October, 2015

13,850 households were accepted as homeless between April and June of this year

A gloomy forecast for Labour in Scotland

Ed Jacobs
8 October, 2015

New polling shows no sign of the reported Labour revival among younger voters

David Cameron’s equality rhetoric ignored the elephant in the room: class

James Bloodworth
8 October, 2015

Missing from the PM’s plea for ‘equality of opportunity’ was an acknowledgement of the disadvantage accrued by class

Ian Duncan Smith says Blair ‘milked’ 9/11. Did he see Cameron’s speech?

Adam Barnett
8 October, 2015

IDS opens his barn door mouth with his eyes shut

Comment: The Tories have now gone further than Thatcher – to the extremes of British politics

Natalie Bennett
8 October, 2015

The parallels in tone with the Thatcher era were clear

Community sponsorship: the silver lining to Theresa May’s speech?

Marley Morris
7 October, 2015

Underneath the gloom was a potentially promising development

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