5 Reform UK disasters this week
This week has seen Nigel Farage defend a Nazi salute and a homophobic joke, and U-turn on another policy pledge
Senior Reform UK figures panicking Trump links could cause them electoral damage
Panic has set in among Reform’s senior figures
The House of Lords is increasingly illegitimate
Removing hereditary peers won’t go far enough to give the Lords legitimacy
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Right wing press ramps up attacks on the NHS as backdoor privatisation continues
75% of stories that appeared in the Daily Mail with NHS in their title over the past month were found to be negative.
A progressive alliance? Labour reportedly scales back campaign in Tiverton & Honiton by-election
Are the Lib Dems and Labour teaming up to unseat Tory MPs?
26 cross-party MPs speak out on plans to cut 91,000 civil servant jobs
They’re supporting the PCS union’s campaign
Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 3, May 2022
The news you didn’t see this week…
How the 9% inflation figure hides the real impact of the cost of living crisis
The poorest are being hit much harder
Rishi Sunak ridiculed after blaming old IT systems for not allowing him to raise benefits further
‘He’s insulting your intelligence’
The ‘time has come’ for a Universal Basic Income says Andy Burnham
“A universal basic income will put a solid foundation beneath everybody so that they can have a life with security and stop worrying about everything.”
Greenpeace activists stop tanker loaded with Russian fossil fuels from docking near London
The environmental group says that it had no option but to take action after the government’s refusal to say ‘no to funding Putin’s war on Ukraine’, adding that it would do it for them.
Voices on the Left: 5 blogs from the left you need to read this week
A roundup of progressive news…
Private schools aren’t ‘losing’ places at Oxbridge, their unfair privileges are being tackled- that’s all
When you’re used to privilege, equality feels like oppression