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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (3 days ago)

Our readership continues to grow but none of this would’ve been possible without readers and donors. We need your support now more than ever, with the rise of the right, as progressives we must continue to fight back against regressive policies and ideas.

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Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (3 days ago)

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Want to end wealth inequality in Britain? Cap the bosses’ bonuses

Prem Sikka
31 May, 2018

Checking soaring executive pay is necessary for reducing income inequalities, but the government continually fails to address the issue.

Two thirds of the British public want to see MP perks and pay cut back

Joana Ramiro
31 May, 2018

Members of Parliament earn over £77,000 and have their Westminster meals subsidised. And average Brits are not happy.

Here’s what two years of Sadiq Khan’s mayoralty has done for London

Florence Eshalomi
31 May, 2018

As the Mayor marks the end of the first half of his term, Florence Eshalomi reflects on how the capital changed under his leadership.

Care charity forcing staff to sign in using fingerprints may be breaching law

Josiah Mortimer
31 May, 2018

Residential care staff are being forced to sign in every hour using fingerprints and photographs – a policy that may be against new EU law.

Scotland is helping to end ‘period poverty’. But is England being left behind?

Josiah Mortimer
30 May, 2018

Will the UK government listen up – or allow a dire situation to continue?

Eight times Green co-leader Caroline Lucas has helped change politics for the better

Josiah Mortimer
30 May, 2018

As the Green Party co-leader announces she’s standing down this summer, here’s some highlights from her time at the helm.

The Chancellor’s ‘reformed’ capitalism is little more than cheap rhetoric

Josiah Mortimer
30 May, 2018

Talk is cheap, but we’re going to need much more than warm words before young people can trust the Tories.

A People’s Vote will fight the racism festering beneath Brexit

Jason Arthur
29 May, 2018

In the first of a three-part article series written by For Our Future’s Sake campaigners, Jason Arthur argues that Brexit was fuelled by anti-immigrant sentiment.

Did Jeremy Corbyn’s Brexit chief just confirm Labour is voting against Brexit?

Joana Ramiro
29 May, 2018

Corbyn’s shadow cabinet has been dogged by accusations from Labour Remainers that it will not oppose a Tory Brexit. But Keir Starmer points in the opposite direction.

Pro-choice campaigners turn on British government after Repeal victory in Ireland

Joana Ramiro
29 May, 2018

On Friday a historic vote made abortion legal in the Irish Republic. By Monday, the DUP was vowing to block a similar move in Northern Ireland.

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