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Why a Tory-Reform pact suits the right-wing press more than either party – for now

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Today

Editors may relish the drama, but behind the scenes they must be tearing their hair out as the feud escalates. “Stop fighting each other and end the Labour nightmare,” pleaded the Daily Mail, like a weary parent begging quarrelling children to behave.

Right-Wing Watch

More Scots would back independence if Reform entered government, poll suggests

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Today

“Given support for independence remains tied, Brexit alone is clearly not a catalyst that can itself prompt a surge in support for separation — but, on the basis of this poll, the advent of Nigel Farage as Prime Minister may well be.”

A photo of a Scottish independence protest with a Saltire flagm with the word "yes" imposed on it

MPs across the political spectrum condemn Trump’s claims about NATO troops

Basit Mahmood
Yesterday

“The president was wrong to diminish the role of Nato troops, including British forces in Afghanistan”

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The London Capital and Finance scandal is another example of privatising profits and socialising losses

Prem Sikka
4 June, 2021

‘The state continues to douse fires, but there is no regulatory reform and no independent inquiry into the operations of the finance industry.’

From Mary Ann Nichols to Sarah Everard: Women on Britain’s unsafe streets

Allan Dorans
4 June, 2021

‘If we truly want to increase the safety for women on the streets, we must redirect our attention away from what women could do, to why men are making these streets unsafe for women.’

A stick reading "Vote Labour"

‘Labour must not dismiss its young voters, it should offer them hope’

Maheen Behrana
3 June, 2021

‘We need someone to offer us hope – hope of affordable housing, of employment rights, of action on inequality.’

Charities warn of a ‘wave of homelessness in coming months’ after eviction ban ends

Basit Mahmood
3 June, 2021

400,000 renting households have either been served an eviction notice or have been told they will be evicted, according to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

School leaders say government has ‘prioritised purse strings over nation’s children’

Basit Mahmood
3 June, 2021

The government has pledged less than a tenth of the cash that the former schools catch-up tsar had requested.

Mary Kelly Foy MP: Why we must oppose the new detention centre for asylum-seeking women

Mary Kelly Foy
3 June, 2021

‘Hassockfield Immigration Removal Centre is significant not just because of the trauma it will cause for the women imprisoned there, but because of what it represents.’

Radical Roundup

Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 1, June 2021

Josiah Mortimer
2 June, 2021

What got spiked this week?

Union Jack must be flown for Prince Andrew’s birthday, government advice says

Josiah Mortimer
2 June, 2021

He stepped back as a working Royal following the Epstein revelations. Why do we need to celebrate his birthday?

Revealed: NHS deal with private firms during pandemic was expensive flop

John Lister
2 June, 2021

Private hospitals barely provided any beds for Covid patients – but they still netted millions in public cash.

Tories hint at secret corporate courts in UK-Australia trade deal

Josiah Mortimer
1 June, 2021

The plans could allow Australian energy firms to sue the UK for taking climate action.

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