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Cost of living crisis

Prem Sikka: Here are 5 immediate steps the government could take to tackle the cost of living crisis

Prem Sikka
22 July, 2022

‘Millions of Brits face the choice of living in a cold home, going without food and other essentials, not paying bills, and getting even deeper into debt. There is a strong prospect of riots and social disorder.’

Class
Opinion

Isn’t it time for further legislation to tackle social class inequality and classism?

Basit Mahmood
22 July, 2022

According to the Social Mobility Commission, even when those from working-class backgrounds have the same education attainment, role and experience as their more privileged colleagues, those from poorer backgrounds are still paid an average of £2,242 (7%) less.

Tory leadership contest

‘Anti-woke’ hysteria dominates Tory leadership campaigns, peddled by right-wing press

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
16 July, 2022

The race for the top job has been turned into a ‘culture war’, with barely a mention of how to help the most vulnerable and tackle the cost of living crisis.

Tories set to appoint more party donors and allies to the House of Lords

John Lubbock
29 June, 2022

The Tories are planning on awarding peerages to a number of loyal allies of Boris Johnson.

A photo of protesters holding a sign reading "Speak out for a just transition"

The UK needs a ‘Just Transition Bank’ – not another bank striving for ‘growth’

Natalie Bennett
14 June, 2022

‘No point in using bank funds to make the rich richer. No point in building new roads, or investing in fossil fuel when the carbon bubble looms every larger. Every point is focusing resources on projects that deliver for people and planet.’

The Sun

Right-wing media runs smear campaign on people opposing Rwanda deportation policy

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
13 June, 2022

Parts of the press seem intent on discrediting all opponents of what is described as a ‘monstrous’ deal to ‘offload’ asylum seekers in Rwanda.

Diane Abbott: Boris Johnson’s crisis also means we have to step up the struggle against racism

Diane Abbott
8 June, 2022

‘When the government finds itself in difficulties as a result of its own policies, it resorts to xenophobic and outright racist measures’

Wes streeting

Wes Streeting takes apart Nadhim Zahawi’s claim that Oxbridge should not ‘tilt system’ to accept more state pupils

Basit Mahmood
19 May, 2022

“He is defending the 7% of people who go to private schools, who are going to have a brilliant world of opportunities available to them, but failing to stand up for the 93% who do not.”

Radical Roundup

Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 2, May 2022

Basit Mahmood
11 May, 2022

The news you didn’t seek this week…

Why is Trump-backing billionaire Peter Thiel building a financial and political network in the UK?

John Lubbock
11 May, 2022

The billionaire has been investing in lots of British startups and has connections to right wing academics pushing an anti-woke agenda.

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