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Which party has won the most council by-elections since the May 2025 local elections?

Chris Jarvis
19 December, 2025 (2 days ago)

Who’s up and who’s down?

A photo of a ballot box

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News

Our country’s laws are being used to benefit big business and the rich

Prem Sikka
16 December, 2022

‘Neoliberals have long persuaded people to believe that the law offers justice and fairness, but they rarely talk about how laws are shaped by wealth and power’

Pat Cullen
News

Royal College of Nursing’s Pat Cullen roasts Peter Hitchens on Question Time for claiming nurses shouldn’t strike

Basit Mahmood
16 December, 2022

“Could Peter live in Central London on £27,000 and travel to his work every day, costing possibly around £500 a month to get to and from work”

A photo of London's skyline
Opinion

London needs to side with renters and hold landlords to account

Zoë Garbett
16 December, 2022

Rogue landlords are being protected

Nigel Farage on GB News
News

GB News was biggest media spender on MPs in past year

Basit Mahmood
16 December, 2022

Press Gazette reports that 60 MPs made just under £350,000 from media appearances last year with some of the highest earning upwards of £40,000 a year.

£10 notes pegged to a washing line
Opinion

The super-rich have dodged tax for too long, here’s what we can do to change that

Helal Abbas
16 December, 2022

‘What we must do is create a legal system which penalises individuals and companies that use tax havens

Grant Shapps
News

Grant Shapps gets upset and complains about having facts and figures ‘thrown at him’

Basit Mahmood
15 December, 2022

“If you’re uncomfortable with me using all these statistics on growth how would you like me to measure your performance as the Department for Growth?”.

NHS
News

The shocking facts which show why nurses are striking

Basit Mahmood
15 December, 2022

NHS workers have already experienced a decade of pay cuts, with the average nurse seeing their pay fall in real-terms by between £5,000 and £6,000.

NHS strike
News

100,000 nurses take part in the largest strike today in NHS history

Basit Mahmood
15 December, 2022

Nurses have seen their pay fall by £5,000 in real terms since 2010 according to the TUC.

Rishi Sunak
Opinion

Why the government is wrong to claim that pay increases for public sector workers will lead to further inflation

Basit Mahmood
14 December, 2022

Unlike in the private sector, the public sector cannot increase its costs for consumers to make up for the higher wages.

Starmer
News

Keir Starmer slams Rishi Sunak over nurses strike as a ‘badge of shame’ for the government

Basit Mahmood
14 December, 2022

The nurses join hundreds of thousands of other public sector workers who are striking this December.

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