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Our national obsession with centralised control weighs down the North
Whitehall doesn’t know best.
Radical roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – 9th December 2020
Left Foot Forward’s roundup of the progressive news you might have missed this week…
Priti Patel pushes ahead with plans to clamp down on protest
Looks like the Home Secretary is ganging up on peaceful protesters…
Government review: MoD officials ‘crossed a line’ in blacklisting row
But the report stops short of recommending sanctions for the staff involved.
Britain’s homelessness problem is at crisis point this winter. How is Labour responding?
We need to ramp up our campaigning and volunteering in the dangerous months ahead.
‘Cash cows’ rebel: London students join growing movement of rent strikes
Students are angry at being locked into ‘exorbitant’ contracts – despite teaching being moved online. Universities are in a bind.
Revealed: Some English regions endure twice the public health cuts of others
Find out how much your region’s public health budgets got slashed before the pandemic…
Kenny MacAskill MP: Forget the legal niceties – the SNP’s push for independence is now unstoppable
The Scottish National Party’s internal elections saw a defeat for the slow-and-steady leadership faction, writes SNP MP Kenny MacAskill.
The Trade Secretary is building a team of free market ideologues
The Government’s trade strategy is for the shock deregulation of Britain. We have to beat it, writes Nick Dearden.
Government is trying to ‘bulldoze democracy’ through post-Brexit Trade Bill
The Greens also want the bill to include ‘existing strong protections’ for the environment, workers’ rights and food standards.