10 wildest comments from members of Kemi Badenoch’s new shadow cabinet
From the offensive to the bizarre
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Fresh calls to ban fire and rehire after P&O Ferries sacks entire UK workforce and replaces them with agency workers
‘Fire and rehire must end. This is destroying lives’
Reasons to be Cheerful Podcast: 5 takeaways from the latest episode
A roundup of the Reasons to be Cheerful Podcast
Tories ditch plans to cap UK MPs’ earnings from second jobs following sleaze scandals
The government says a cap would be ‘impractical’
Boris Johnson returns from Saudi Arabia empty handed after begging dictators for oil increase
Despite Johnson’s meeting with bin Salman for 1 hour and 45 minutes there was little sign of a breakthrough.
Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 3, March 2022
The news you didn’t seek this week…
Freedom and security in a complex world
Preview a publication from the Green European Foundation which suggests the answer to freedom and security needs to be transformation to a socioecological society in the 21st century. It argues for the realisation of a societal project that strives for equal freedom for all people to flourish in security, within the boundaries of the planet, and proposes concrete steps towards it.
Mike Buckley: What would a diplomatic solution to the war in Ukraine look like?
‘Putin will suffer consequences enough, potentially costing his leadership. But for now, the priority must be ending the war as quickly and completely as possible.’
‘Going cap in hand from dictator to dictator is not an energy strategy’: Boris Johnson slammed for begging Saudi dictator for help
‘Saying we are not going to rely on Russia and then going to Saudi Arabia is not an energy strategy.’
Rachel Hopkins MP: Defending BTECs is vital to a progressive skills agenda
‘Under the Conservative Party’s rule, the skills agenda has been nothing more than an afterthought. Apprenticeship starts have fallen by 38%, the number of adult learners has dropped by 4 million’
Online Safety Bill returns to Parliament amid chorus of criticism even from Tories
Nadine Dorries announced the return of the Online Safety Bill, but even Conservatives worry that it will chill free speech online.