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

Chris Jarvis
19 December, 2025 (3 days ago)

Who’s up and who’s down?

A photo of a ballot box

Latest Posts

Outsourcing Facebook

Cleaners at Facebook face “intolerable” workloads: A worker speaks out

LFF Reporter
28 March, 2022

‘This Facebook dispute represents another case study in the dark underbelly of billionaire tech firms’

Rishi Sunak’s Spring Statement is ‘making things worse’ amid the cost of living crisis, says Tory MP

Basit Mahmood
28 March, 2022

‘My view of the Treasury’s economic strategy is that there isn’t one.’

Save our seafarers

Solidarity builds for sacked P&O workers as protestors gather at ports

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
27 March, 2022

The fight for the dismissed P&O Ferries’ employees to win back their jobs moved up a gear this weekend with demonstrations held in the UK and beyond.

UK was not fully prepared for the Covid pandemic

‘Spring slaughter’: Exhausted NHS staff respond to Sunak’s statement

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
27 March, 2022

‘My hospital is full of Covid patients. I’m tired of being a nurse. My cupboards only have foodbank food. I have no petrol. I’m frightened to put the heating on.’

Shell

Shell accused of eyeing crude profit in possible Cambo oil field U-turn

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
26 March, 2022

By re-entering the controversial oil development project, Shell would ‘stand to gain billions in the midst of wartime price hikes.’

Lord Michael Grade

Objectivity of appointment of Lord Grade as new Ofcom chair called into question

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
26 March, 2022

‘This says everything about our government. He’s white, male, ancient, pale, stale, anti-BBC, anti-Channel 4.’

Sana'a residential area destroyed in Yemen after an airstrike

Yemen: Seven years of the forgotten war

Benali Hamdache
26 March, 2022

Benali Hamdache writes on how the complexity of the war has allowed the UK government to get away with not using its power to bring peace, and to continue profiting from arm sales.

Rishi Sunak

Whinging Rishi Sunak ‘annoyed at the BBC’s coverage of his economic measures’

Basit Mahmood
25 March, 2022

He’s not happy at the way the BBC have focused on Universal Credit claimants

Net Zero

Wera Hobhouse MP: Local Government should be at the heart of the transition to Net Zero

Wera Hobhouse MP
25 March, 2022

‘More than half of the emissions cuts needed rely on people and businesses taking up low-carbon solutions – solutions around buildings, energy and transport – decisions that are made at a local and individual level.’

Protesters outside Oxford City Council campaigning against the sell off of the Vaccine Manufacturing and Innovation Centre (VMIC)

‘Downright dangerous’ – the latest healthcare sell-off

Liz Peretz
25 March, 2022

Plans are underway to sell-off the Vaccine Manufacturing and Innovation Centre. But people are fighting back.

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