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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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What exactly does Ed Miliband think it means to be a ‘working person’?

Annie Powell
26 November, 2014

There is no one type of ‘working person’, and it’s an indictment of our politics that such an obvious point has to be made.

Migration Watch and the Daily Express are dangerously close to open racism

James Bloodworth
26 November, 2014

What’s important to Migration Watch and the Express is not a baby boom as such, but a ‘foreign baby boom’.

Corporate power has become a governing institution in its own right

Luke Hildyard
26 November, 2014

Corporations once lobbied politicians to win approval for their pet policies – now it’s the other way round.

Government blows £3m of Green Deal budget on marketing

Ruby Stockham
26 November, 2014

The Green Deal is failing despite the huge sums invested in promoting it.

King’s Fund calls for additional £2bn in NHS funding

25 November, 2014

Even the most optimistic scenario put forward by the NHS’ Five Year Review would require an additional £8bn a year by 2020.

Two stark examples of the lack of appropriate mental health care for vulnerable mothers

Ruby Stockham
25 November, 2014

Tania Clarence and Fiona Anderson received much attention from health and social workers, but neither received the mental health care that might have saved their children.

Disabled people wait 118,000 years longer than IDS intended

Neil Coyle
25 November, 2014

900,000 disabled people are waiting a combined 118,000 years longer than intended for assessments and decisions on crucial support.

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The greed of energy corporations results in thousands of deaths each year

Morten Thaysen
25 November, 2014

Fuel poverty will end only when we bring our energy supply back under democratic control.

Free speech is a right, but a platform is not

25 November, 2014

The OSFL debate is not about censorship, but about our right to express dissatisfaction about an event happening at our university.

Rochester’s concerns about immigration are bound up with failing public services

Jill Rutter
25 November, 2014

For the residents of Rochester, addressing their concerns about living standards, schools and healthcare would go a long way to dampening their worries about immigration.

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