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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (5 days ago)

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Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (5 days ago)

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Extinction Rebellion
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XR Greenwich and Newham are asking the London Mayor cancel the Silvertown Tunnel

The DUP’s attachment to tactics has got Northern Ireland in a strategic mess

Peter McColl
12 April, 2021

The DUP strategy always involves the threat of violence, followed by denunciations of the violent once the inevitable violence happens.

G7: Why international unions are holding their own summit

Geoff Tily
12 April, 2021

The current system for global economic relations is designed to favour wealthy elites over working people.

Progressive figures respond to Prince Philip’s death

Lucy Skoulding
9 April, 2021

Prince Philip died this morning at the age of 99

Majority of voters don’t know crucial May election info, poll finds

Lucy Skoulding
9 April, 2021

Charities are urging people to raise awareness of the upcoming vote

Sian Berry

Greens launch London Mayoral campaign: Key policies in brief

Lucy Skoulding
9 April, 2021

Sian Berry is standing for the Greens in London, and yesterday she launched the party’s manifesto

NHS

Doctor calls government actions ‘complete dereliction of duty’ at People’s Covid Inquiry

Samantha Wathen
9 April, 2021

A consultant has attacked the government’s handling of PPE procurement during the pandemic

Education

National Education Union: End ‘intolerable’ inspection regime and unfair assessments

Lucy Skoulding
8 April, 2021

One in three staff intend to leave the education profession in the next five years

Four years of the Tories’ two-child limit: Here’s what it’s done

Lucy Skoulding
8 April, 2021

If the Tory policy was scrapped now 200,000 children would immediately be lifted out of poverty

Radical Roundup

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

Josiah Mortimer
8 April, 2021

Our roundup of the progressive news you might have missed this week…

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