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Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (4 days ago)

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23 December, 2025 (4 days ago)

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70 years after the creation of the NHS, it’s time for a National Care Service

Barbara Keeley
6 July, 2018

Launching a new Fabian Society report on the care sector, Labour’s Shadow Minister for Mental Health and Social Care says the current system is ‘manifestly unfair’.

“Accidental Americans” must be protected from draconian US tax system

Alex Mayer
5 July, 2018

A British pensioner lived her entire life on the right side of the law, but is now being hunted by US tax officers because she was born in New York. MEP Alex Mayer writes.

London politicians join campaign to end no-fault evictions

Joana Ramiro
5 July, 2018

Housing campaigners have long been calling for an end to Section 21. Now two London Assembly members are calling on Mayor Sadiq Khan to ban it in the capital.

Why the national minimum wage needs to rise to £10 for all workers

John Earls
5 July, 2018

A report published this week shows how a rise in the minimum wage would see 9 million workers better off. And that can only be good for the country, John Earls writes.

Here are some heartwarming stories about the NHS on its 70th birthday

Joana Ramiro
5 July, 2018

People are rushing to social media to wish the National Health Service a happy birthday and share the many ways in which the NHS saved their lives and those of their loved ones.

#PMQs: While the Tories laugh, Corbyn’s focus on bus services could be a big vote winner

Josiah Mortimer
4 July, 2018

The Labour leader played a very clever hand in PMQs today, by honing in on an issue Tory MPs know little about.

BBC under fire over reporting of alleged law-breaking by Vote Leave

Josiah Mortimer
4 July, 2018

Why did the BBC report Vote Leave’s spin on alleged law-breaking without seeing the official findings first?

Across the country, opposition to fossil fuels is being stifled. It’s time to stand up

Jonathan Bartley
4 July, 2018

Six activists from Surrey and Sussex are the latest to face attempted injunctions against protest. We must join with them, writes Green Party co-leader Jonathan Bartley.

Report: Hard or soft Brexit, we’re all coming out of this worse…

Josiah Mortimer
4 July, 2018

While Vote Leave look set to face prosecution over the EU referendum campaign, a new report shows Brexit will hit the whole country. For richer and poorer…

The Green Party leadership race is on – here’s a useful who’s who

Joana Ramiro
3 July, 2018

Leadership elections are afoot as Caroline Lucas is stepping down as co-leader later this month. And among some known faces, a new generation of Greens emerges.

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