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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025

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23 December, 2025

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Latest Posts

NHS in crisis: Government misses A&E waiting time target for twentieth week in a row

James Bloodworth
20 February, 2015

NHS accident and emergency departments in England failed to meet a government target of seeing 95 per cent patients within four hours for the twentieth week in a row

Council Housing Dagenham London

The mayor’s planned estate regeneration schemes will cost London 8,296 social rented homes

Darren Johnson
19 February, 2015

Every time you see the mayor launching an estate regeneration scheme, bear in mind that it will actually reduce the amount of genuinely affordable housing

Screeching U-turns in Scottish politics

Ed Jacobs
19 February, 2015

Members of all parties continue to contradict each other over their plans for future deals with the SNP

UKIP: The First 100 Days, Channel 4, review: it’s po-faced right-wing critics who look ridiculous

James Bloodworth
19 February, 2015

Channel 4’s latest ‘mockumentary’ has made the po-faced right very angry

All in it together? New figures show unequal growth across north/south divide

Ruby Stockham
19 February, 2015

Seven of the 10 fastest growing Local Enterprise Partnerships were in the south

Privatised energy has failed – we need to take back the power

Morten Thaysen
19 February, 2015

While the Big Six’s profits from us increased fivefold from 2009-2013, one in four people struggle to pay their extortionate fuel bills

Cost of childcare has risen by 33 per cent since 2010

Ruby Stockham
19 February, 2015

Parents are paying £1,533 more for nursery places than at the start of this parliament

More cuts risk leaving tube staff ‘dangerously isolated’ after jump in assaults

Val Shawcross
18 February, 2015

Assaults on London Underground employees have risen by 44 per cent, coinciding with staff cuts

The Lib Dems are pitching to workers (but here’s what they aren’t saying)

Ruby Stockham
18 February, 2015

‘Lead by example’ in relations with workers say Lib Dems, who have participated in a sustained five-year attack on trade unions

Labour market: Young people are the furthest from benefiting from this recovery

Richard Exell
18 February, 2015

And getting back to pre-recession wages is going to take an awfully long time

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