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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As I posted on social media last night: As The Guardian noted: The UK is to substantially expand its nuclear deterrent by buying a squadron
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Jeremy Corbyn asked this question of Angela Rayner, in her role as Deputy Prime Minister, yesterday: Yesterday 86 people were killed in Gaza by Israeli
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This is the latest from Led by Donkeys. It tells us what we already know. But what it also says is that we weren’t just
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Prem Sikka, or Lord Sikka to give him his title, had this exchange in the House of Lords: So, P&O fails to file accounts for
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