Trump’s assault on LGBTQ+ programmes ‘undoubtedly’ hitting UK charities, warns Stonewall
Stonewall’s corporate donations more than halved over the past year.
Britons now more pro-EU than the French or Italians
2026 has begun much as 2025 ended, with bleak polling that confirms Britain’s deep and unresolved disillusionment with Brexit, a frustration now shared across the European Union.
The ‘holy war’: How the far right is trying to hijack Christianity
Does the far right’s capture of a debased Christianity matter in the UK, where religion holds far less sway than in the US? Given America’s superpower status, and the reluctance of global leaders to challenge Trump, it should concern us all.
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Petition sent to Duncan Smith over disability assessments
The disabled people’s benefits assessment has once again come under fire, with the launch of a petition calling Iain Duncan Smith to stop the benefits re-assessment of people living with mental illness.
Trade unionism is not about creating even more divisions based on nationality
Trade unions are about solidarity. The very name of our movement is symbolic of the fact that we are bound together by ties that go beyond nationality or location.
Islamist extremists score their first political success in the UK – moderate muslims abandoned by home secretary
At last a well orchestrated campaign by a small group of Islamic zealots has succeeded in closing the licit importation of khat, the mild naturally occurring stimulant that has been used in Ethiopia, Kenya and Yemen for millennia.
Support progressives in Israel by all means, but don’t vilify boycotts
The idea of nations and peoples cooperating instead of fixating on individual respective national interests is popular in trade union movements due to the strongly held principles of solidarity that come with trade unionism.
How pre-distribution could boost the wage share
There has been much discussion of the merits of prioritising ‘pre-distribution’ – of attempting to achieve a more equal distribution of the cake before turning to ‘redistribution’ through tax and benefits.
UKIP MEPs back far-right leader Le Pen
UKIP MEPs have voted against a move by the European Parliament to remove the immunity of French far-right leader and MEP Marine Le Pen after French prosecutors opened a case against her for comments she made about Muslims.
How the Equality and Human Rights Commission forced the government’s hand on stop and search
The Conservative party has long expressed strong support for an increase in the use of stop and search powers by the police, irrespective of the impact on community cohesion, and inequalities.
The fate of Earl’s Court is in Boris Johnson’s hands
Despite being worth over a billion pounds to London’s real economy, attracting one a half million visitors from across London and the world, thirty thousand exhibitors, hundreds of events each year, the Earl’s Court Exhibition centers in West London that sustain thousands of jobs are threatened with demolition with plans to replace them with mostly extortionately priced homes.
Is David Cameron our prime minister, or just a travelling arms merchant?
This weekend a coterie of British businessmen including the arms dealer Rolls-Royce were jetted around Kazakhstan on board the private plane of its dictator Nursultan Nazarbayev, who has ruled the large Asian republic for 23 years by filtering oil revenues into his private bank account and cracking down on dissent.
UKIP wants to charge NHS patients to skip waiting times
UKIP leader Nigel Farage has endorsed an article by the party’s health spokesperson which calls for people to be allowed to pay to skip A&E waiting times.