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Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (4 days ago)

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UKIP refused to cooperate with personal data investigation, says ICO

Charlotte England
11 July, 2018

Every other political party cooperated fully with the investigators.

Natalie Bennett: Why a Parliamentary vote on Brexit is not enough

Natalie Bennett
11 July, 2018

The push for a People’s Vote on the final Brexit deal is gaining momentum, fast.  A huge London march last month and a rapidly expanding petition have been bolstered this week by the latest demonstration that we don’t have a government capable oftest

Academies still wasting taxpayers’ money, say MPs

Charlotte England
11 July, 2018

Education ministers must change the way they scrutinise prospective academies to ensure the schools will actually improve learning and won’t just squander taxpayers’ money, a damning new report has found.

The Tories let Brexit divide and polarise our society. Now they must face the consequences

Prem Sikka
11 July, 2018

The 2016 referendum exposed deep fault lines in our society. Rather than working to repair them with education and an emphasis on economic prosperity, the government has allowed divisions to fester. There is a now a real danger that this political failure could create space for the rise of the far right.

Dominic Raab

Top five awful things said by the new Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab

Joana Ramiro
9 July, 2018

Dominic Raab has just been appointed the new Brexit Secretary. But the MP is widely disliked in Westminster, and not without good reason.

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Inequality is affecting our mental health – here’s how

Richard Wilkinson Kate Pickett
9 July, 2018

Social and economic inequality are not affecting our pockets, but our nation’s mental health too. Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson write.

Davis resignation: Just another Brexit blunder or is it the end of the line for May?

Joana Ramiro
9 July, 2018

Brexit secretary David Davis has left Theresa May in the lurch, days after she announced her final EU divorce plans. But after months of catastrophes how serious is this latest hit?

This Pride weekend, let’s remember the EU’s role protecting LGBT rights

Eloise Todd
7 July, 2018

The Tories’ Brexit plans still pose a risk to fundamental rights, writes Best for Britain CEO Eloise Todd.

Nationalise water industry without compensation, say campaigners

Josiah Mortimer
6 July, 2018

“If anything, the public should be compensated for what’s happened – it’s been an absolute disaster.”

Whitehall

After decades of following a failed economic model, we need to reshape the state

Prem Sikka
6 July, 2018

We have missed far too many opportunities to steer our economy in a positive direction. It’s time for the left to address the role of the state today, says Prof. Prem Sikka.

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