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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (4 days ago)

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Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (4 days ago)

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The Tories’ botched Brexit negotiations are creating some very unlikely alliances

Josiah Mortimer
28 June, 2018

Business leaders, unions and MEPs across the spectrum are calling on the government to stop fighting – and protect UK jobs and rights instead.

Jettisoning the blond buffoon: Is Boris Johnson finally being sidelined?

Josiah Mortimer
28 June, 2018

The PM is reported to be effectively ignoring the Foreign Secretary’s Brexit proposals – raising the stakes as to whether he’ll jump or be pushed…

British doctors support the People’s Vote – here’s why

William Sapwell
27 June, 2018

After the British Medical Association voted in support of a final say on the deal, Dr William Sapwell writes about how Brexit is a “major threat” to health services.

70 Years Of NHS: The Tories ran our health services down to privatise them next

Samantha Wathen
27 June, 2018

In the first of a series celebrating the NHS 70th anniversary, Keep Our NHS Public campaigner Samantha Wathen explains how the Tories are hellbent on abolishing our “national religion”.

Vince Cable’s housing policies would be better without his track record

Kevin Gulliver
27 June, 2018

In a speech at the Royal Institute of British Architects, the Lib Dem leader put forward a set of proposals to tackle Britain’s housing crisis. But Kevin Gulliver is not convinced.

Private prisons are now a multi billion pound industry – and one company is soaking it up

Joana Ramiro
27 June, 2018

The government announced that two more private prisons will be opening in Britain. And while the model is failing, it’s making one company very rich indeed.

Campaigners slam ‘rubber stamped’ EU-Canada trade agreement

Josiah Mortimer
26 June, 2018

Labour appear to have struck the ‘worst of all worlds’ position when it comes to CETA – angering free trade proponents and social justice campaigners alike.

REVEALED: David Davis meets Sadiq Khan more often than the devolved nations

Josiah Mortimer
26 June, 2018

It’s no wonder Scotland and Wales feel left out in the cold by Ministers – the Brexit secretary apparently meets Sadiq Khan more often than our national leaders.

To win, the climate movement needs to get tough on the big polluters

Tim Root
26 June, 2018

There can be no such thing as ‘business as usual’ when it comes to climate change.

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Uber is appealing against its license ban – but drivers union warns of “epidemic of violence”

Joana Ramiro
25 June, 2018

A new survey has found that nearly half of Uber drivers have been assaulted. Now the union representing them is accusing TfL of “sabotage”.

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