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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (2 days ago)

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Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (2 days ago)

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Mike Kirby
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Prem Sikka
16 April, 2018

Limited liability for shareholders has conferred unlimited liability on people. It’s time corporations were democratised.

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Is the American diner set to see its first wave of strike action in the UK?

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Teachers, parents: take control of your school and oppose academisation

Leah Williams
13 April, 2018

Academisation is not helping pupils, teachers or parents. As communities start kicking back, three schools in Lambeth show the way.

Natalie Bennett: The anti-fracking campaign is stepping up its game. Where’s Corbyn?

Natalie Bennett
13 April, 2018

From Blackpool to Yorkshire, protests are showing this can be the year we kill off the idea of fracking in England.

BBC Radio 4 gets into trouble with Rivers of Blood production

Joana Ramiro
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Listeners were not pleased when the public broadcaster announced it would transmit Enoch Powell’s infamous speech for the first time ever.

Game of Thrones workers are disputing their ‘poverty pay’

Joana Ramiro
12 April, 2018

Game of Thrones producers shell out £10 million per episode, but some of its workers are on poverty pay. 

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The government is removing disabled people’s access to politics by stealth

Emily Brothers
12 April, 2018

Parliamentary candidates are legally challenging the government on cutting a disability fund. Emily Brothers explains why.

Nine months on, here’s how you can support the Grenfell Tower victims

Josiah Mortimer
11 April, 2018

A new poetry collection expresses the deep grief many are still experiencing after the Grenfell disaster. But it also raises funds to help rebuild communities in the aftermath.

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