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Right-wing media watch – Tory press’s overblown hypocrisy on Reeves’ budget
The Tories and their supporting press, seem to have forgotten the catastrophic fallout from Liz Truss’s fiscal plans in the autumn of 2022, which sent the gilts market into freefall and catapulted the UK’s pensions industry into chaos.
Are climate politics about to go into reverse?
The rise of climate-sceptic populist figures both in the UK and abroad, puts climate action at risk of being side-lined in favour of regressive, anti-environmental politics that could undo years of hard-fought progress.
Devolution dispute heats up in High Peak over future council structure
‘Greater Manchester has the fastest growing economy in the UK. When you look at key economic indicators, like travel to work areas, all High Peak points towards the Northwest.’
Mark Carney, former governor of the Bank of England, hopes to save Canada from populism
Carney reportedly saw the Bank of England position as a stepping stone for his political ambitions in Canada when Trudeau stood down.
Labour hasn’t delivered growth or happiness. It needs an economic reset.
Successive governments have tailored economic and tax policies to impoverish the masses
Labour activist tears apart Elon Musk leaving GB News panellists shocked
“It is almost treasonous to suggest that Musk should be welcomed into UK politics with open arms to subvert our democracy.”
Manufacturing workers to strike after bosses reject demand for £1 pay rise
‘It’s time for company bosses to get back around the table and deliver the goods.’
Andrew Ranger MP: Why it’s time to extend licensing hours for pubs
The Labour Party, as the natural champion of the local, has more to do to fix those smaller-scale licensing problems, but also, at the national level, to drive down operating and energy costs
Badenoch mocked for ‘bonkers’ idea of means-testing the state pension triple-lock
‘There’s being bold and there’s being plain bonkers’
Palestine Solidarity Campaign march to go ahead as more Palestinians killed despite ceasefire deal
‘Many more could be killed in the coming days. This violence must end immediately.’