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.
We will be returning on Monday 5th January with more hard-hitting news and comment, written by and for the UK left.
The news you didn’t see this week…
The government’s sexual harassment consultation must introduce a duty on employers to take steps to prevent sexual harassment, Alice Moss writes
Ministers have been going around saying the public do not need to isolate when, um, told to isolate by the NHS Covid-19 app.
Priti Patel’s department didn’t even know the location of all its short-term holding facilities for refugees.
Many of their members got no support from the coronavirus income protection schemes, Simon Sapper writes.
From today, frontline NHS and social care staff in England won’t have to isolate after being pinged by the app
Certain left-wing groups are set to be proscribed from the Labour Party as Sir Keir Starmer pushes to get rid of “toxic extremism”.
Tories want to push their favoured insurance-backed approach, which at best will only benefit a few wealthy individuals, says Prem Sikka.
The vaccines minister tried to blame lockdown as the cause of people taking their lives.
“Who knows where we’ll be in six weeks’ time, but it’s not going to be anywhere better than we are now,” says Professor Christine Pagel.
