Far-right politicians from Trump to Orban to UK ministers are following the same authoritarian script: attack universities, control curricula, ban ideas that challenge power. As
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This is good from Bruce Springsteen, and my thanks to Judith B who sent me the link. This man has passion, and passion matters a
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Those with power rarely give it up willingly. That’s why protest matters. It’s how we won workers’ rights, women’s rights, gay rights, and have fought
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As the FT has reported this morning: Ministers are set to shelve reforms to Companies House that would have required businesses to file their accounts
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Wes Streeting says cutting 50 calories a day will solve obesity and save the NHS. That’s bad politics, bad science and classic neoliberal blame-shifting. In
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The Co-op has banned Israeli goods. The UK government remains silent. This silence is complicity. Real leadership in the face of genocide would require that
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There are varying estimates of how much total benefit payments to people who have some form of disability, or who are paid benefits relating to
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It seems that Labour MPs have had much the same reaction as I have had to Keir Starmer’s PIP concessions: Research by Dr David Lowry

As The Telegraph reported last night: Sir Keir Starmer has caved to welfare rebels by agreeing that existing disability claimants can keep their benefits. In
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