According to Rachel Reeves and her Treasury ministers, there will be a crisis in the City of London today because the £5 billion of savings
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Wes Streeting is talking dangerous nonsense on obesity
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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Starmer has been defeated and has not a shred of credibility left
As The Guardian has reported in the last hour, Stephen Timms told the Commons after 5 pm with regard to the Bill delivering benefit reforms:
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Labour and the Pontius Pilate School of Politics
With apologies (but not many) for repeating this theme: Labour sees the problems we face. It talks about them. Then it washes its hands and
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Labour’s failed its PIP test
Labour is cutting disability benefits to balance Rachel Reeves’ budget, while handing billions in tax breaks to the rich. I explain why this is morally
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A note to a young person who wants to be a campaigner
I have been asked by an undergraduate student how they might develop a career as a campaigner that might result in a change for the
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Sanctions worked on apartheid. Why not sanction Israel, then?
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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Free markets? Pull the other one….
As the FT reported last night: Lotus has reversed its plans to end car production in the UK after the government signalled it was willing
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Starmer needs to sort his act out
The Telegraph has this headline in an email this afternoon: I am not in any way condoning what Vylan said, but Starmer gave his ‘island
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