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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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Jenny Jones: We entered lockdown too late and we’re relaxing it too early

Jenny Jones
2 June, 2020

Our infection rate isn’t low enough to open schools.

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How charities plan to engineer an end to rough sleeping – forever

Fleur Doidge
1 June, 2020

Charities are putting forward ambitious plans to end homelessness at last.

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Ask how politics pays the piper to know who calls the tune

Jamie Beauvais
1 June, 2020

As a government sweetheart deal for big newspapers hits headlines, Jamie Beauvais asks if the concept of free and independent media has been lost.

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Where the covid-Brexit double whammy will hit hardest – new report

Fleur Doidge
1 June, 2020

Analysis from progressive charitable alliance forecasts tougher times for UK workers for the next four or five years – particularly in the regions.

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Unions welcome chancellor’s furlough announcement – but now ministers must plan for recovery

Tony Burke
1 June, 2020

Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s plan for employers to start paying towards the cost of the coronavirus job retention scheme has been welcomed by unions, writes Tony Burke.

Radical roundup: 10 stories you may have missed this week

Josiah Mortimer
29 May, 2020

Left Foot Forward’s roundup of the progressive news that got buried.

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29 May, 2020

Switch to 100% green energy and support progressive media at the same time.

EXCLUSIVE: Greens accuse PM of misleading Parliament over care homes

Josiah Mortimer Joe Lo
29 May, 2020

“The question is whether the Prime Minister deliberately misled the select committee or did so out of ignorance and incompetence.”

With a key college facing closure, trade union education is under threat

John Murphy
29 May, 2020

While workers face unprecedented risks to their livelihoods and safety, training for union reps is under threat in the North West.

Johnson falsely claims coronavirus patients weren’t sent to care homes

Joe Lo
28 May, 2020

His claim is contradicted by government guidelines.

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