The government’s proposals will do little to check fat-cattery or improve corporate governance
Fat-cats have no shame and shareholders have no long-term commitment to any company. New measures won’t work.
Tories
Huge anti-Brexit protest being planned outside Tory conference
Organisers say the demonstration will kick off an ‘Autumn of Discontent’ over Brexit and will attract hundreds of thousands.
We’re close to defeating fracking in the UK – Lancashire is the industry’s last stand
Cuadrilla’s violent tactics against protesters show how desperate they’ve become in the face of growing public opposition.
The Government’s air quality ‘plan’ isn’t a plan – it’s an abdication of responsibility
Green MEP Molly Scott Cato unpicks the government’s clean air commitments.
Home Office pays out £1.8 million to people detained unlawfully
Diane Abbott says large sum the result of “incoherent and inhumane” immigration detention system
As a social worker, I know that welfare sanctions trap homeless people in a circle of poverty
Welfare sanctions don’t ‘motivate’ homeless people – they grind them down as a message to the rest of us.
Tired of (paranormal) experts? You won’t like the Conservatives’ new MEP…
The Tories’ new East Midlands MEP Rupert Matthews is yet more evidence we live in strange times. Supernatural times, even…
The Conservatives’ Brexit plans mask an even more sinister domestic agenda
Labour must stop pandering to the government on Brexit
The Queen’s Speech and the Brexit talks have been postponed – this is not a functioning government
Chaos doesn’t begin to describe it
Moderate Tories like Anna Soubry need to think hard about what comes next
The party’s centrists must make their presence felt