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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (2 days ago)

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Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (2 days ago)

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Greenpeace activists protest Tesco as meat supplier linked to Amazon forest fires

Alexandra Warren
14 August, 2021

“As the Amazon burns, will you continue to do business with forest destroyers, fanning the flames of the fires?” says Brazilian Indigenous Leader, Sonia Guajajara.

Bolsonaro’s handling of the pandemic could be his downfall as Lula’s popularity rises

Claudia Webbe
14 August, 2021

Let’s express our solidarity with Lula and all Brazilians, making sure far-right Bolsonaro will be the next to go, says Claudia Webbe MP

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Firefighters accuse those who downplay threat of climate change of being ‘criminally complacent’

Basit Mahmood
13 August, 2021

The FBU says ‘climate catastrophe is the number one global issue facing the planet’.

Priti Patel

Priti Patel ridiculed after handing taxpayer-funded job to former Taxpayers’ Alliance boss

Basit Mahmood
13 August, 2021

The TaxPayers’ alliance has previously criticised spending vast amounts of public cash on ‘spin doctors’.

Prof Prem Sikka: Private equity is sucking the life out of British businesses

Prem Sikka
13 August, 2021

‘Private equity is the architect of the next crash which will hit every household’.

Andrew Neil ‘may never return to GB News’ amid clash with boss

Basit Mahmood
13 August, 2021

Insiders say that Neil has been ‘frozen out of decision making’.

GCSE results: Gap between poorer and wealthier students continues to widen

Basit Mahmood
12 August, 2021

There was a widening of the gap for poorer students on free school meals, who scored on average 0.1 of a grade lower compared with 2019.

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A quarter of bosses are not giving staff paid time off to get vaccinated

Basit Mahmood
12 August, 2021

Polling also found that 26 percent of employers had not been paying full company sick pay to staff who are off sick with COVID vaccine side effects.

Tories face backlash over plans that could allow animal testing for cosmetic ingredients

Basit Mahmood
12 August, 2021

Animal testing on ingredients exclusively used in cosmetics was banned in the UK in 1998.

Tamsin Omond and Amelia Womack

Green deputy Amelia Womack launches joint leadership bid with climate activist Tamsin Omond

Chris Jarvis
12 August, 2021

The race for the leadership of the Green Party of England and Wales has stepped up a gear. Today, the party’s current deputy leader Amelia Womack announced she’s standing for the top job, on a co-leadership ticket with climate activisttest

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