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Another dramatic poll in Scotland heaps pressure on Labour
Membership surge raises the prospect of SNP becoming the third biggest party in UK-wide politics.
Picturehouse staff are still being paid poverty wages
Picturehouse’s rising profits contradict their claim that they can’t afford to pay higher wages.
EU benefit tourism was already banned – so what exactly is Cameron boasting about?
The EU has always permitted restricting social security benefits to European migrants.
Tax havens are syphoning money away from our public services
We need to show our anger about greedy corporates depriving our public services of investment.
Strength in labour market figures, but a disinflationary outlook from the Bank
The monthly figures show positive real earnings for the first time since 2009.
The internet helps create Julien Blancs – but it can also take them down
The days of normalising rape and misogyny are numbered, thanks to the power of online campaigning.
Prisons are in a crisis of the government’s own making
We have never witnessed such a sharp deterioration in prison conditions as we have seen in the last two years.
Wales handed the power to decide on 16-year-old voters
Following Scotland’s example, the Welsh Assembly hopes the move will lead to an increase in democratic engagement.
Unemployment down 115,000 to 1.96 million
Unemployment decreased by 115,000 in the three months to September 2014 to 1.96 million, with the unemployment rate now at 6.0 per cent, today’s labour market statistics reveal.
Why Labour is right to push for tougher fracking regulation
However its proposals for tougher regulation go nowhere near far enough.