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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (6 days ago)

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Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (6 days ago)

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Simon Sapper
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Simon Sapper looks at bad HR and what’s behind workplace strife in Britain.

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Howard Reed
9 February, 2021

98% of the online gambling market is licensed and under-regulated. But the industry only wants to talk about the black market…

Sarah Olney MP: It’s time to make public transport genuinely open to all

Sarah Olney
8 February, 2021

Policymakers must begin to concentrate on social, economic and political mobility facilitated by accessible public transport, writes Sarah Olney, MP for Richmond Park.

Pressure grows on SNP to back four day working week

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
8 February, 2021

Nicola Sturgeon is facing growing calls to back an ambitious shift in Scotland’s work culture.

Putting passengers before profit: Welsh rail franchise now in public ownership

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
8 February, 2021

Wales’ move to bring railways back into public hands is welcomed by nationalisation campaigners.

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UK urged to follow Biden’s lead and end Yemen war support

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
8 February, 2021

UK pressed to step up efforts to help impose a ceasefire in Yemen by suspending arms exports to Saudi.

MPs whose constituents missed out rail against towns fund “bungs”

Joe Lo
5 February, 2021

Were towns like Barnsley were overlooked for political reasons?

In Cumbria, we need green jobs not a dirty dangerous coal mine

Jill Perry
5 February, 2021

Let’s create jobs in insulation, public transport and organic farming.

Prem Sikka: We bailed out banks, now let’s rescue our town centres

Prem Sikka
5 February, 2021

We make them better than they were before too.

Dr Onkar Sahota: Traumatised NHS staff need better pay, support and more colleagues

Onkar Sahota
4 February, 2021

Nearly 40% of intensive care staff are suffering from PTSD. Let’s make their lives easier.

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