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23 December, 2025 (4 days ago)

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Latest Posts

Brexit

Why Remainers are split on EEA membership

Josiah Mortimer
13 June, 2018

It all comes down to whether you think Brexit can and should be stopped…

The resigned Justice Minister is right on Brexit: we need more democracy, not less

Natalie Bennett
13 June, 2018

Britain isn’t currently a democracy, but it can be, says Natalie Bennett as she calls for a ‘peaceful democratic revolution’.

Here’s why I’m joining the People’s Vote march on 23 June

Jude Kirton-Darling
12 June, 2018

Jude Kirton-Darling argues that much like workers vote on final negotiations between union and employer, so too should Britons vote on final Brexit deal.

Pro-EU campaigners mock Brexiteer hysteria in full-page ad

Joana Ramiro
12 June, 2018

As MPs prepare for a debate of epic proportions, campaigners applied a bit of tongue-in-cheek pressure while calling for a ‘meaningful vote’.

A People’s Vote will stop a Brexit that offers nothing to the working class

Patrick Moule
12 June, 2018

In the third of a three-part article series written by For Our Future’s Sake campaigners, Patrick Moule argues that Brexit betrayed working class people.

housing UK

Of course Right to Buy is doomed – affordable homes were never the point of it

Joana Ramiro
11 June, 2018

A report showing how the scheme will fail in the next five years did not come as a surprise. The end of council housing was the plan all along.

The Tories’ proposals are (unsurprisingly) toothless against fat-cattery

Prem Sikka
11 June, 2018

Companies might have to justify pay gaps between bosses and workers, but without a body to oversee it the measure is futile. Prem Sikka writes.

May must enforce better data collection to combat Britain’s worst prejudices

Michelle Stanistreet
11 June, 2018

A cross-party parliamentary committee just condemned the government for failing to collect better data on racial equality. Michelle Stanistreet applauds the initiative.

North or South, the Tories are destroying our public transport

Jenny Jones
9 June, 2018

The government is failing northerners on public transport, but southerners are no less doomed. Jenny Jones writes.

Restaurants workers are getting organised – and telling bosses where to stick it

Joana Ramiro
8 June, 2018

TGI Friday’s, McDonald’s… how many restaurants can you name where workers are being bonafide bad-ass?

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