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NEET young people with mental health conditions face disproportionate hospitalisation rates, new data shows

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Today

Disability activists have raised concerns that young disabled people are being unfairly targeted in welfare reforms aimed at pushing more people into work.

Trump backed Brexit. Now he’s its biggest liability

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Today

If Trump hoped to tilt British politics towards more populist figures like Nigel Farage, he may instead be pushing it in the opposite direction.

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Pedro Sánchez’s widely-applauded ceasefire response, cuts through Europe’s caution

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Today

The Spanish PM has been among Europe’s most outspoken critics of military escalation in the region, as well as a vocal supporter of Palestinian rights.

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Movement spreads across the UK for removal of colonialist statues

Sophia Dourou
9 June, 2020

Here are some of the campaigns to remove or replace effigies of the UK’s controversial historical figures

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How austerity helped fuel the spread of Covid misinformation

Dean Hochlaf
9 June, 2020

Misinformation spreads when government steps back from its role as a purveyor and promoter of public health. A vacuum is created which allows false information to grow.

Far-right football fans are planning to confront BLM protesters in London

Sophia Dourou
8 June, 2020

Football hooligans and the far right will be marching in London on Saturday to face off with anti-racist protesters.

Five shocking stats about police brutality in the UK

Sophia Dourou
8 June, 2020

As Black Lives Matter protests are picking up all around the UK, here are some statistics of the disparate policing of BAME people

Schools must face up to Britain’s colonial past

Amar Raja
8 June, 2020

Teaching a whitewashed history excludes British students from different cultural backgrounds: it ignores the impact of their ancestors.

Wera Hobhouse: The Lib Dems must lead the charge for a new Progressive Alliance

Wera Hobhouse MP
5 June, 2020

The leadership contender sets out her ideas for taking on the Tories.

Radical roundup: 10 stories that got buried this week

Josiah Mortimer
5 June, 2020

Left Foot Forward’s roundup of the progressive news you might have missed.

Beware: The ‘Bring Back Failure’ team is back

Natalie Bennett
5 June, 2020

How many former chancellors does it take to change an economy?

Public bodies prepare for PFI assets to be handed over in a dire state

Josiah Mortimer
5 June, 2020

Shareholders are keen to squeeze as much as they can out of PFI contracts before they’re handed back.

Elites will use this crisis to reshape the state. We have to push back

Prem Sikka
5 June, 2020

We have the money to build a better society after this crisis. But corporations and the right are already undermining our welfare.

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