Jon Trickett MP: Labour’s fiscal rules are fuelling stagnation and political disaffection
A posture designed to calm nerves in opposition has solidified into a constraint that now shapes every major policy choice
Nigel Farage’s support for Trump is putting off voters
“He might just be [Trump’s] whipping boy. That kind of concerns me”
5 Reform UK disasters this week
From Farage’s late registrations of financial interests to Reform endorsing Trump’s expansionist fantasties in Greenland, the party hasn’t had a good week
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Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 3, July 2021
The news you didn’t see this week…
Revealed: Disabled women face shocking levels of workplace harassment – TUC
The government’s sexual harassment consultation must introduce a duty on employers to take steps to prevent sexual harassment, Alice Moss writes
Labour tells government to ‘get a grip’ over mixed messages on Covid isolation
Ministers have been going around saying the public do not need to isolate when, um, told to isolate by the NHS Covid-19 app.
DAMNING report from HM Prisons Inspector finds ‘shambolic’ outsourcing failings
Priti Patel’s department didn’t even know the location of all its short-term holding facilities for refugees.
UnionDues: ‘Industry without art is brutality’ – meeting the Artists Union of England
Many of their members got no support from the coronavirus income protection schemes, Simon Sapper writes.
Health and social care workers ‘appalled’ at exemption from self-isolation
From today, frontline NHS and social care staff in England won’t have to isolate after being pinged by the app
Ken Loach and Bakers’ Union president could be expelled from the Labour Party on Tuesday
Certain left-wing groups are set to be proscribed from the Labour Party as Sir Keir Starmer pushes to get rid of “toxic extremism”.
Prof Prem Sikka: Why we must resist the Elderly Social Care (Insurance) Bill
Tories want to push their favoured insurance-backed approach, which at best will only benefit a few wealthy individuals, says Prem Sikka.
Minister slammed for breaching Samaritans guidance on discussing suicide
The vaccines minister tried to blame lockdown as the cause of people taking their lives.
“Opening on Monday is madness”: Scientists warn cases will rise as restrictions are lifted
“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.