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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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The Act has noble aims. But it is a sticking plaster for a problem of the Tories’ making.

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Prem Sikka
3 April, 2018

Shareholders wield far too much power over our economy. The hostile takeover of GKN shows it’s time workers were at the table.

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We need to end the neoliberal love affair with all things tech – before it’s too late

Julian Glassford
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This past few weeks has shown that while we can’t turn the clock back on enterprise and technology, we need to find new ways to keep the digital world in check.

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Jonathan Bartley
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Piecemeal policy will never deliver the change our country and our planet requires, and bond action is needed now.

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Richard Brooks
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The consequences of Brexit could be dire – now, and in the future. But young people have known this all along.

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Richard Corbett
29 March, 2018

Last week’s events brought in a harbinger of things to come as the clock ticks down to a Tory Brexit. Here’s the worst five.

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Jean Lambert MEP
29 March, 2018

With exactly one year until Brexit Day, huge questions remain about how the lives of EU citizens in the UK will be affected.

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Workers at a recycling plant kicked off a wildcat strike after management refuses to replace breathing masks’ filters.

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Joana Ramiro
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The National Union of Students just changed its policy on Brexit – here’s why it matters.

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Joana Ramiro
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Environment Sec Michael Gove did good introducing refundable fee for recyclable bottles – but there’s more to be done.

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