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Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025

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23 December, 2025

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Amid massive budget cuts, Boris has spent £218,000 on water cannon he cannot use

Joanne McCartney
12 March, 2015

London lost 1,847 uniformed officers last year, yet Boris thought it appropriate to make an impulse buy whose use Teresa May won’t approve

Media Watch: Times blames Mansion tax fears for London house price drop. But where’s the evidence?

Adam Barnett
12 March, 2015

The survey cited doesn’t mention the Mansion tax, so the Times points to a ‘general feeling’

PAC report slams government stalling on improving cancer services

Ruby Stockham
12 March, 2015

Target waiting times are not being met, and not enough people are receiving radiotherapy treatment

The coalition has stigmatised welfare users – we need a return to compassion and solidarity

Frances Ryan
12 March, 2015

George Osborne has said a further £25bn spending cut will be coming after the next election, much of which will hit disabled people

Media Watch: Mail rips Miliband’s ‘communist’ kitchen. But what of Cameron’s breadmaker?

Adam Barnett
12 March, 2015

This kitchen class warfare is silly, but if it counts the Prime Minister comes out smelling of flour

Nottingham Trent University pays 212 of its staff below the living wage

Ruby Stockham
12 March, 2015

UNISON are putting pressure on the university, whose vice-chancellor is the highest paid in the country

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12 March, 2015

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Senior Tory raises prospect of a deal with Welsh nationalists

Ed Jacobs
12 March, 2015

After weeks of accusations that Ed Miliband is in Alex Salmond’s pocket, a senior Conservative is promoting a deal with a party that is actively seeking the break-up of the UK

Rich Londoners are getting richer while the poor get poorer

Ruby Stockham
12 March, 2015

The richest 10 per cent of Londoners were a quarter richer in 2010/12 than before the recession, bucking the trend for the rest of the capital’s workers

New figures show Scotland’s finances are worse than the UK’s

Ed Jacobs
11 March, 2015

The findings will reignite the debate about the sustainability of a fiscally independent Scotland

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