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Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (2 weeks ago)

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23 December, 2025 (2 weeks ago)

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Prem Sikka: Six ways to sort out sky-rocketing executive pay

Prem Sikka
30 November, 2018

One of the author’s of Labour’s new policy paper on executive pay sets out how to rein in the fat cats.

The government is welcoming new prison management bids – but they all have to be private

Joana Ramiro
29 November, 2018

The latest announcement from the Prisons Minister shows the Tories persevering with their privatisation plans, despite successive management scandals in British prisons.

INTERVIEW: James O’Brien on how to tackle fake news and Brexit

Joana Ramiro
29 November, 2018

Joana Ramiro spoke to the LBC presenter following his Leveson Lecture on the challenges facing journalism today.

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To find out why we have a crisis in the social care sector, you have to ask the workers

Dean Hochlaf
29 November, 2018

Mistreatment of the social care workforce is threatening the sustainability of the entire adult social care system in England.

EXCLUSIVE: Caroline Lucas’ letter to the PM – accusing her of misleading Parliament over impact of Brexit

Caroline Lucas
28 November, 2018

“You have breached the Ministerial Code, and particularly the Sixth Principle of Public Life: that of Honesty.”

EXCLUSIVE: Opposition parties accuse PM of ‘misleading Parliament’ over Brexit at #PMQs

Josiah Mortimer
28 November, 2018

Greens and Lib Dems have accused the PM of misleading the Commons, after the PM claimed Treasury analysis ‘does not show’ the UK will be worse off.

The planned Brexit TV ‘debate’ will be meaningless without other parties involved

Eloise Todd
28 November, 2018

Representatives from all the parties who have MPs in Westminster should be invited to take part, argues Best for Britain chief Eloise Todd.

#PMQs: Did the Prime Minister mislead the House over Brexit?

Josiah Mortimer
28 November, 2018

The PM appears to be contradicting her own Chancellor…

What about #MeToo? How the Lord Lester case shows the Old Boys’ Club still rules

Charlotte Proudman
28 November, 2018

The treatment of Jasvinder Sanghera shows that the Establishment remains in charge of the second chamber, writes Barrister Dr Charlotte Proudman.

REVEALED: The front lines of climate change chaos in the UK

Josiah Mortimer
28 November, 2018

We’ve just marked the 10th anniversary of the Climate Change Act – yet the government is still failing to protect communities, warn Friends of the Earth.

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