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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (6 days ago)

Our readership continues to grow but none of this would’ve been possible without readers and donors. We need your support now more than ever, with the rise of the right, as progressives we must continue to fight back against regressive policies and ideas.

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23 December, 2025 (6 days ago)

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DWP criticised for rejecting calls to pause Universal Credit payment deductions during cost-of-living crisis

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
16 September, 2022

‘The deductions policy is acting as a recruiting sergeant for food banks.’

Report shows little progress in identifying earthquake risk, as drilling licences expected to be issued next week

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
16 September, 2022

As fracking companies call for earthquake limits to be reduced and exploratory drilling could start as early as next week, a report shows reducing and predicting earthquake risk remains a ‘scientific challenge’

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Exclusive: Only one in seven voters feel well served by the UK’s political system

Chris Jarvis
15 September, 2022

People want sleaze tackled, House of Lords reform and a proportional electoral system

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Amazon workers to ballot for strike action for the first time ever

Chris Jarvis
15 September, 2022

The workers are being balloted on a pay offer of 35 per cent

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Thérèse Coffey ridiculed for policing health workers’ grammar while the NHS is in crisis

Chris Jarvis
15 September, 2022

The new health secretary issued guidance instructing workers to not use the Oxford comma

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Enough is Enough to host more rallies across the country

Chris Jarvis
15 September, 2022

The campaign group will be holding rallies in Leeds, Luton and Bristol

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Kwasi Kwarteng poised to scrap bankers’ bonus cap

Chris Jarvis
15 September, 2022

People have highlighted the irony of lifting the cap on bankers’ bonuses while advocating ‘pay restraint’ for workers

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‘A kick in the teeth’: Truss could ditch junk food crackdown to ‘cut red tape’

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
14 September, 2022

A Tory U-turn is reportedly on the cards over anti-obesity measures, raising eyebrows over the PM’s connections to free-market think-tanks that lobbied against the legislation.

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Reach journalists’ three-day strike postponed

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
14 September, 2022

The industrial action that was due to take place this week will no longer go ahead, as new talks over low pay get underway.

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People crossing Channel in small boats in 2022 already surpasses last year’s figures

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
14 September, 2022

Home secretary Suella Braverman, who pitches herself to the right of her predecessor Priti Patel, says she wants to stop all small boat crossings.

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