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Reform’s newest MP backs privatising the NHS

Olivia Barber
Today

Andrew Rosindell said he would not object to scrapping the NHS and replacing it with a private insurance model.

Andrew Rosindell backs moving to a private insurance model for healthcare

Woke-bashing of the week: Bob Monkhouse doesn’t need defending from ‘wokeness’ – least of all by the Sun

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Yesterday

Monkhouse’s comedy, and the conventions that shaped it, belong to a bygone era of British entertainment. That does not make it shameful or malicious, but it does make it historically situated.

Right-Wing Media Watch: Right-wing media in a tizzy about Steve Coogan’s ‘anti-British’ comments

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Yesterday

The Mail jumped on Coogan’s Irish passport, while the Express amplified “anti-British” criticism.

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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.

Yemen

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.

Homeless people in temporary accommodation were “already in lockdown” before the pandemic

Emma Mulholland
4 February, 2021

One man hadn’t left his house for six years.

From ‘seas of opportunity’ to ‘car crash’, Scottish fishing rep slams government’s Brexit failures

Joe Lo
4 February, 2021

The government have not delivered the Brexit fisherman wanted.

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