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Latest Posts

Report unveils flaws in the school funding system

The ‘reverse of levelling up’: Report shows funding model is failing disadvantaged schools

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
24 October, 2021

A parliamentary report finds schools in the most deprived areas in England are getting less money than more affluent institutions, sparking doubt over Johnson’s ‘levelling up’ agenda.

BFAWU members campaigning for a £15 an hour minimum wage

Green Party conference votes to support £15 minimum wage

Chris Jarvis
23 October, 2021

The Greens have backed the BFAWU’s ‘Fight for 15’ campaign

Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay speaking at Green Party Conference

Green Party members vote to support free social care

Chris Jarvis
23 October, 2021

The Green Party now supports publicly funded care, free at the point of use

Keir Starmer under fire for position of drugs reform

Senior Scottish Labour MSP accuses Starmer of ‘tacitly endorsing’ drug deaths

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
23 October, 2021

The frontbencher has confronted the Labour leader for “placating” the right-wing press by refusing to extend softer drug laws to the rest of Britain.

Green Party deputy leader Amelia Womack speaking at Green Party Conference

Amelia Womack criticises Starmer’s Labour for lacking ‘moral fibre’

Chris Jarvis
23 October, 2021

“We’ve seen a total failure of leadership from those in charge, and a failure of moral fibre from those who are meant to be in opposition.”

Green Party co-leaders Adrian Ramsay and Carla Denyer

Free bus travel or bin strikes? – The Greens running local government

Chris Jarvis
23 October, 2021

How is the Green Party coping with running local councils?

Johnson accused of failing to deliver on stamping out online racism in football

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
23 October, 2021

As clubs, leagues and players take matter into their own hands, with Leeds United dedicating today’s fixture to the ‘No Room For Racism’, campaign, the PM is derided for failing to act on antiracism in football.

Jeremy Corbyn speaking on climate change

Jeremy Corbyn: We need radical change to fix our destructive political and economic system before it’s too late

Jeremy Corbyn
22 October, 2021

‘Our crises of climate, inequality, the Covid 19 pandemic and democracy are all linked, and all require radical solutions that put people and planet before the interests of the multinational profiteers’

Green Party co-leaders Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay

New Green Party co-leaders pitch left in conference speech

Chris Jarvis
22 October, 2021

With calls for public ownership of public services, scrapping universal credit and a Green New Deal, the pair set out their stall of climate action combined with a left wing economic agenda. 

£10 notes pegged to a washing line

Prof Prem Sikka: The UK insolvency industry is corrupt and reform is long overdue

Prem Sikka
22 October, 2021

‘The insolvency industry is the ‘wild west’ of our times’

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