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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (3 days ago)

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Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (3 days ago)

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Joana Ramiro
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A report launching in Parliament gives vital advice on how to “hardwire” Britain’s central bank to the environmental upheavals to come.

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Joana Ramiro
14 May, 2018

Neo-Nazi leader Jeremy Bedford-Turner has been convicted after the CPS delayed the trial by over two years.

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Joana Ramiro
14 May, 2018

Netta Barzilai thanked the contest’s voters for “accepting differences between us”. One could only wish Israel would espouse the same principles.

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Even MPs agree: Care workers need more pay now

Christina McAnea
11 May, 2018

A Public Accounts Committee report this week revealed how care workers are leaving the profession due to crippling low pay – and the Government has done nothing.

Could latest ruling change people’s minds about Brexit?

Joana Ramiro
11 May, 2018

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Prem Sikka
11 May, 2018

The number of workers on low pay is increasing and more are finding that employers are not honouring the minimum wage laws.

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Home Office routinely disbelieves people – even those claiming asylum from persecution

10 May, 2018

Gillian McFadyen explains how the Windrush scandal is a direct result of institutional prejudice inside our migration services.

Here’s all the times the Lords have defeated the Tory Brexit plan

Joana Ramiro
10 May, 2018

Week upon week the House of Lords has amended the government’s EU Withdrawal Bill. Here are all the amendments made to the Tories’ hard Brexit plans.

The scale of Britain’s insecure jobs crisis in now clear

Joana Ramiro
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Figures released by the TUC show how nearly 4 million are stuck in the precarious world of the ‘gig-economy’.

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