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Has Anyone Told Theresa?

December 20, 2016

Andrew Rosthorn

Pro-EU Tory MPs have been in intensive talks with members of Chancellor Merkel’s Christian Democrat party in Germany. Angela Merkel’s CDU and the British Conservative Party were bitter opponents in …

Bell suspended as RHI scandal engulfs Stormont

December 18, 2016

John Coulter

Serious questions have been posed as to who really runs Northern Ireland as a result of the multi-million pound Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme scandal. Sounds daft, but that’s what …

Watchdog confirms scale of school cash cuts

December 18, 2016

Ian Hernon

State schools in England are facing budget cuts totalling £3bn by 2019-20, an average of 8% each. The scale of the funding crisis, forecast by Tribune last month, was confirmed …

Unison faces court challenge

December 18, 2016

David Hencke

The election of general secretary of Unison, Britain’s biggest public sector trade union, is to be challenged at a three day public hearing next week. All four rival candidates – …

Miners’ strike papers to be released

December 18, 2016

James Douglas

Home Secretary Amber Rudd has confirmed that files relating to the 1984 ‘Battle of Orgreave’ will be made public next year. In a letter to the home affairs select committee, …

Concentrix accused of forcing claimants into hardship and debt

December 18, 2016

Commons watchdogs condemned Concentrix and HMRC for “flawed” processes that saw the contractor use “strike rates” against tax credit claimants. The work and pensions select committee reported that a “cut …

Bank expert says regional inequality rising

December 18, 2016

James Douglas

Bank of England chief economist Andrew Haldane has warned that regional inequality in the UK is widening, with London and the South East the only places in the UK where …

Housing crisis is ‘tightening grip’ claims Shelter

December 18, 2016

Ian Hernon

More than a quarter of a million people are homeless in England, according to researchers from charity Shelter using data from four sets of official 2016 statistics to compile what …

Rail unions slam new privatisation

December 18, 2016

Ian Hernon

Rail unions have slammed proposals from transport secretary Chris Grayling to allow the private train operating companies and other firms to run sections of Britain’s infrastructure. Plans for the operation …

There go the people. I must follow them.

December 12, 2016

Andrew Rosthorn

The French politician Alexandre-Auguste Ledru-Rollin [1807-1874] appears never to have made the remark that made him famous: ‘There go the people, I must follow them, for I am their leader.’ …

The fightback starts in Vienna and Richmond Park

December 4, 2016

Andrew Rosthorn

Sascha Van der Bellen, born in Nazi-controlled Vienna to a refugee Estonian mother and a fugitive Russian father, has rolled back the worldwide tide of nationalistic populism to win the …

Theresa May claims ‘horrifying’ power over citizens

November 30, 2016

Andrew Rosthorn

John Halford, solicitor for the People’s Challenge Against Article 50 says the government case at next week’s Supreme Court Brexit hearing is ‘a staggering proposition’. Top Eurosceptic Tories have failed …

NHS facing further squeeze after Autumn Statement

November 27, 2016

Kailash Chand

In his first Autumn Statement, Chancellor Philip Hammond pledged no new cash for the NHS or social care and the Treasury document does not mention the health service or social …

Hammond’s tweaks hit working families

November 23, 2016

Ian Hernon

Chancellor Philip Hammond’s first Autumn Statement, which was forecast to ease the impact of benefit cuts, quickly unravelled. The Chancellor changed Universal Credit (UC) – the flagship single payment being …

Ex-wobblies join Gina in the Supreme Court showdown

November 23, 2016

Andrew Rosthorn

The millionaire Labour voter Gina Miller has been joined in her legal battle against Theresa May by a tiny independent trade union that fights for low paid migrant workers. The …

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