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City of London

A Robin Hood Tax would work. Trust me, I used to work for a hedge fund

Pat Berryman
23 November, 2017

Why is everyone still paying for the bankers’ mess – except the bankers themselves?

Here’s why immigration detention is pointless – as well as cruel

Charlotte England
16 November, 2017

The Government is detaining more migrants each year but deporting proportionally fewer, wasting money in the process and causing unnecessary harm to thousands of people.

It’s official: Free schools have failed to deliver

Charlotte England
16 November, 2017

Academies – one of the coalition’s flagship policies in 2010 – have not lived up to any of Michael Gove’s big promises, a new report has found.

There are clear ways to rebuild our broken economy but the government is blinded by Tory dogma

Prem Sikka
13 November, 2017

It’s not just about increasing borrowing — we need to start closing corporate tax loopholes.

300,000 people are homeless in Britain and it’s a direct result of Tory austerity

Oscar Webb
8 November, 2017

In one London borough 1 in 25 people are homeless. It’s a crisis the government did nothing to stop.

Here’s why you shouldn’t trust the Tories’ tax revenue figures

Prem Sikka
2 November, 2017

Rather than responding honestly to a difficult question, the Prime Minister appears to have engaged in some creative accounting.

The Tories just showed their utter contempt for those hurt by Universal Credit

Oscar Webb
19 October, 2017

The government didn’t even try to defend their controversial welfare reforms, failing to take part in a vote last night.

LBC ‘suggests being a Labour Party member is as important as eating’, in absurd attempt to stitch up MP

Charlotte England
12 October, 2017

Radio station accused of ‘surpassing gotcha journalism’ and relying on ‘false equivalency’, with suggestion that charging prospective party members a premium rate to join Labour is the same as forcing destitute benefits claimants to call 55p a minute line for food money.

Children at school development centre

The Tories’ plans on free childcare will only widen inequality in the UK

Charlotte England
28 September, 2017

Quantity over quality in early years education is damaging to the poorest children.

job centre

MPs call for Universal Credit expansion to be delayed, warning system on brink of ‘collapse’

Charlotte England
21 September, 2017

Members of DWP committee fear next month’s planned roll-out could leave ‘hundreds of thousands’ without benefits.

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