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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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23 December, 2025 (2 days ago)

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Is Scotland about to scrap council tax?

Oscar Webb
27 March, 2018

The Greens and the SNP are looking at replacing the tax with a more progressive alternative and will vote on it tomorrow.

Blacklisted workers need more than a public inquiry – they need a change in the law

Alex Just
27 March, 2018

Blacklisting devastates the lives of workers and their families. Here’s how we tackle it.

Here’s how we’re stamping out sexual assault and harassment in London

Len Duvall
27 March, 2018

There are a host of initiatives being launched across the city’s nighttime economy where sexual violence is most prevalent, writes London Assembly Member Len Duvall.

Are Tory cuts to the police and border force fuelling a modern slavery crisis in the UK?

26 March, 2018

The number of children thought to be victims has risen by 66 per cent in just two years.

Don’t believe their latest piece of spin – the Tories will never reform our rotten corporate culture

Prem Sikka
26 March, 2018

The government’s latest green paper tries to give the impression of a strong response to a tide of corporate abuse – don’t hold your breath.

‘Vote for bargains’: the Sun just admitted huge errors in pro-Brexit article

26 March, 2018

Jacob Rees-Mogg had previously cited the article claiming it showed the “huge savings for us all outside the customs union”.

In an attack on the Tories, the Countryside Alliance just offered to help Labour

26 March, 2018

The pro-hunt group said the Conservative government had failed to address chronic deprivation and access to services in the countryside.

Revealed: How cuts at the Open University are being kept from view

Josiah Mortimer
23 March, 2018

We speak to activists challenging the changes on the ground.

Constructing collusion: Why the police must be held to account over their role in blacklisting

Josiah Mortimer
23 March, 2018

How can the force be held to account if we have no idea who was involved?

While parties grab more of your data, the EU is getting tough on tech giants

Josiah Mortimer
23 March, 2018

Party leaders want to change the law to see more of your online data. Meanwhile the European Commission reveals plans to tax tech giants…

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