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5 Reform UK disasters this week

Olivia Barber
Today

This week has seen Nigel Farage defend a Nazi salute and a homophobic joke, and U-turn on another policy pledge

Nigel Farage defends Senedd candidate's Nazi salute

Senior Reform UK figures panicking Trump links could cause them electoral damage

Basit Mahmood
Today

Panic has set in among Reform’s senior figures

Nigel Farage refuses to condemn Trump's comments on LBC

The House of Lords is increasingly illegitimate

Tom Brake
Today

Removing hereditary peers won’t go far enough to give the Lords legitimacy

A photo of the House of Commons

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£10 notes pegged to a washing line

Prof Prem SIkka: It’s time to face the facts about corruption in Britain

Prem Sikka
28 May, 2021

‘Are democratic governance, the rule of law and our human rights under threat from practices which have institutionalised corruption in the UK?’

Matt Hancock at a Covid press conference

‘Hancock should consider his position, we know we were lied to’ says director of National Care Association

Basit Mahmood
28 May, 2021

“People lost lives and we know they lost lives unnecessarily and prematurely and had the government put in robust systems that wouldn’t have happened.”

Racist and sexist abuse by anonymous online accounts needs to be stamped out, say campaigners

Sophia Dourou
28 May, 2021

The government’s Online Safety Bill fails to deal with anonymous accounts behind much of the online abuse.

Claire Hanna MP: Victims in Northern Ireland can’t ‘move on’ until perpetrators let them

Claire Hanna
27 May, 2021

‘Reconciliation will never be achieved if the needs of victims keep coming second to the needs of victim makers.’

Cummings’ revelations show why we need a public inquiry sooner rather than later, Independent SAGE expert says

Basit Mahmood
27 May, 2021

‘The key question of why the U.K. has one of the highest death rates in the world from Covid-19 can only be answered during a public inquiry’

Labour Party Rosette

As a British Palestinian I feel let down by the Labour Party

Hamza Ali Shah
27 May, 2021

‘It is extraordinary and incredibly telling that a supposedly internationalist party headed by a former human rights lawyer could have such a languid attitude to the oppressed.’

Here are some explosive claims Dominic Cummings made during his marathon evidence before a select committee

Sophia Dourou
26 May, 2021

Boris Johnson’s former top advisor said that ‘tens of thousands’ of people died who didn’t need to.

There’s no place for centrism if Labour want to win

Liam Barrett
26 May, 2021

Labour must return to its socialist principles to offer a transformative mandate to the nation.

This Period Poverty Week, let’s remember the importance of menstrual education for all

Jasmine Tribe
26 May, 2021

Research shows one in four young people in the UK don’t know when they started their period.

A photo of a trade union protest with the words "The UnionDues Column" overlaid

UnionDues: When the shop floor becomes the front line

Simon Sapper
25 May, 2021

Aggression and intimidation towards supermarket workers, the vital role of supermarket reps and the Kenmure Street Blockade – all covered in this week’s Union Dues Podcast.

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