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‘Essential’ work and exploited workers: this loophole is leaving staff dangerously exposed
Big businesses in the UK are still running call centres and operating major premises amid the coronavirus outbreak.
Prem Sikka: Excessive dividends are strangling the UK economy
Companies aren’t investing because they feel pressure to pay dividends instead.
Why Boris Johnson’s knife crime plans will do more harm than good
The PM’s move will increase the likelihood of racial profiling.
Support pours in for progressive media – but time is running out
It’s time to turn up the volume of independent progressive voices.
EXCLUSIVE: Westminster Council spends nearly £1.6m on gagging orders in four years
Westminster Labour said the public have a ‘right to know’ if employees have criticisms of how public bodies operate, while unions called for more transparency.
Here’s four sectors where low EU net migration means bad news for the British economy
Brexodus is now undeniably on its way, as EU workers leave Britain for safer shores. And our food and health could be at risk.
Will gifting £10,000 really make life easier for millennials?
A new report is proposing giving people in their 20s a ‘Citizen’s Inheritance’ and controlled rents. Joana Ramiro investigates.
Greens hit back at Owen Jones’ call for merger with the Labour Party
Members are not happy with the journalist’s call for Caroline Lucas’ party to call it a day.
Climate change made Hurricane Harvey worse. We must demand action
There is hope in the eye of the storm: Space is opening up to make robust, radical demands for action on climate change.