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Housing activist exposes truth about ‘landlords leaving the market’ over Renters’ Right Act

Basit Mahmood
Yesterday

Landlord groups have claimed that many are leaving the market because of over-regulation.

Martin Mawdsley from ACORN Liverpool

Your Party to focus on backing independent candidates in the upcoming local elections

Olivia Barber
Yesterday

The new left-wing outfit won’t be fielding its own candidates

Jeremy Corbyn speaking at Your Party Conference

Reform UK candidate expresses admiration for Oswald Mosley and wants to keep migrants in slave labour

Basit Mahmood
Yesterday

These are the kinds of people Reform is putting up for election.

Arnold-Tabor

Latest Posts

“You can have fracking or you can deal with climate change – you can’t do both” – Friends of the Earth respond to fracking announcement

LFF Reporter
12 October, 2018

Fracking will begin for the first time in seven years

Water coming out of a tap

English privatised water industry only benefits shareholders, report finds

LFF Reporter
12 October, 2018

The report compares private English water companies with publicly owned Scottish Water and England doesn’t come out of it well…

The UK isn’t winning the war against dirty money because government refuses to do anything about it

Prem Sikka
12 October, 2018

Rivers of dodgy money flow through the UK and there is little prospect of any effective controls or check

Why giving ‘gig’ workers rights isn’t as radical as politicians think it is

12 October, 2018

We could turn our country from one of the most unequal in Europe to one that offers decent pay and quality jobs.

Nuclear

To meet our climate targets, we need to ramp up nuclear energy in the UK

Sue Ferns
11 October, 2018

Nuclear and renewables must be seen as complementary options in a balanced energy policy – not alternatives, argues the Prospect union’s Sue Ferns

Sub-co strike: How NHS bodies can dodge national pay rates

Josiah Mortimer
11 October, 2018

The NHS-owned company says it ‘can operate more competitively against private companies’. Workers appear to be paying the price.

Saudi arms trade

Three ways a progressive government must reform the arms trade

Andrew Smith
11 October, 2018

In the wake of alleged war crimes in Yemen, there is a consensus on the left that it is time to stop arming Saudi Arabia. But what would a progressive arms policy look like?

Could this alternative theory of money radically change how we think about the economy?

Will Carter
11 October, 2018

A new project will promote the idea that it is the government – not the private sector – that creates money. In doing so, it could demolish the arguments for austerity…

Natalie Bennett: Why the Green Party is overhauling how it works

Natalie Bennett
10 October, 2018

Green conference at the weekend voted to back fundamental changes to the party’s structures, which will now go to an all-member vote. Natalie Bennett explains the move.

My country right or left: why progressives need to start considering patriotism again

Tristan Grove
10 October, 2018

The right have been allowed to dominate the patriotism issue for too long, argues Tristan Grove following the launch of a new Young Fabians pamphlet.

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