Labour insists it is ready to fight the surprise June 8 election called by Theresa May. The party’s leader Jeremy Corbyn said it was a chance to get a government …
MPs have condemned two “catastrophic” failures by private contractors running vital Whitehall services which could only be remedied by taking back the work in house. HM Revenue and Customs has …
The Royal College of Nursing is assessing the mood for strike action in protest over pay. The largest nursing union is asking 270,000 members across the UK whether they want …
More than 7,500 households have lost their housing benefit and instead receive a nominal 50p a week because of the Government’s benefit cap. And a BBC Panorama survey of hundreds …
Labour has condemned “legalised extortion” after new figures showed that there are now four million leasehold homes in England. Shadow Housing Secretary John Healey said: “Home-owners who own their home …
Progress towards real equality for disabled people over the past 20 years is insufficient and “littered with missed opportunities and failures,” according to the chair of the Equality and Human …
More than 50,000 disabled people have had specially adapted vehicles taken away since changes to disability benefits in 2013. The Motability scheme entitles disabled people to lease a specially adapted …
Two companies have been fined a total of just £15,000 for putting people at risk of cancer caused by asbestos at a property in Leatherhead. A Health and Safety Executive …
President Recip Tayyip Erdo?an, as expected, won his battle to be granted sweeping new dictatorial powers, though only by a narrow margin. Afterwards, international monitors reported that Turkey’s referendum campaign …
America, China and Russia appear to be moving towards an uneasy alliance to pressure North Korea into pulling back from the brink a nuclear war. But tensions were being ratcheted …
A teenage demonstrator was one of two killed during growing unrest in Venezuela, as the country’s political and economic crisis deepens. The 14-year-old boy and another protester were shot dead …
At least 68 children were among 126 people killed in a car bomb attack on buses carrying evacuees from besieged Syrian towns. The explosion shattered buses and set cars on …
Prime Minister Theresa May has announced that she will be asking Parliament to call a General Election to take place on June 8. In a shock announcement that caught opposition …
The government has fixed new road schemes to be timed to have their maximum impact to gain votes from motorists in both the last general election and when people go …
Some Labour MPs and prominent members of the Jewish community have reacted angrily at the suspension for two years of former London Mayor Ken Livingstone, who was accused of “bringing …
The Equality Trust has estimated that chief executives of the UK’s top 100 companies now pocket an average of £5.3 million each year, or 386 times that of a worker …
EU citizens living in the UK, and their British counterparts in other Member States, were left as uncertain as ever about their future at the end of last week’s intense …
The Public Accounts Committee has warned that school standards in England are at risk as schools are required to make savings during the most significant financial pressure since the mid-1990s. …
A TUC-commissioned poll has found that over a third (34%) of black, Asian or minority ethnic people (BAME) witnessed or experienced racial abuse in the seven months following last June’s …
Two firms who lost out on decommissioning 12 nuclear sites will get £97.5m compensation from the taxpayer. A subsidiary of the infrastructure giant Babcock won the £6.1bn contract to clean …
The US academic Norman Finkelstein, author of ‘The Holocaust Industry’ (2000) and a leading expert on the Israel-Palestine conflict and the political legacy of the Nazi holocaust, was the unwitting …
The Trump administration’s Policy Review was completed just in time for President Xi’s visit. Led by the National Seccurity Council’s Deputy National Security Advisor Kathleen McFarland, the team looked at …
Twenty-eight years after the Hillsborough disaster at the FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest at Sheffield on Saturday April 15 1989 there’s a chance that justice may finally …
Theresa May has proven once again that the Tories can’t be trusted …on anything. The prime minister reiterated several times that she would not call an early election, then without …
On a recent early Wednesday morning patients, NHS workers and activists gathered outside the Department of Health and formed a not-so-orderly queue in front of a makeshift border checkpoint. Dressed …
There’ll be many familiar faces in French politics leaving the national scene after the presidential election that begins this weekend. It is one of the few great certainties in the …
Should the hereditary principle be present in our legislative Chamber in the 21st century? Should we perpetuate the current anomaly, by which 92 hereditary peers are chosen to sit in …
Local news is essential for our democracy. It is through local news that MPs get our messages across to our communities, but more importantly, it is the way that communities …
The scandal surrounding Paul Flowers, the ex CEO of the Co-op, that came to light in 2013, which included drugs, sex and financial irregularities, probably gave many in the nation …
Anal rape of captive young men using truncheons, wine bottles or anything else suitable that the soldier or police office finds to hand, has a long history in French ‘law …
Yet another cold bucket of water has been tipped over the heads of Labour and social democrats everywhere. The PvdA, Labour’s Dutch sister party, has just suffered a catastrophic decline …
Maternity discrimination is an issue that cannot be ignored. It is only right that action be taken to ensure that this persistent issue in our society is ended once and …
David Cameron tendered his abrupt resignation as Prime Minister on June 24 last year. For many he may now be no more than a memory but his legacy is very …
On March 21 1960, at a peaceful demonstration in Sharpeville, South Africa, police turned their guns on protesters and started shooting. They killed 69 people and injured hundreds more. Each …
Ever since its inception as a political party in its own right Labour’s “broad church” has been a coalition of interests under a mantle of constructed unity. A construction, coalition, …
We heard that Hinkley Point is going to get a vast construction site that will drain resources for a decade and offer no certainty of success at the end of …
It is shocking that, even today, around 1.2 billion people still lack access to modern electricity and that we are failing to meet UN targets on improving energy access. Power …
Theresa May’s Conservative Government is continuing to ignore the problems facing most schools in England over their funding in the coming months. Nationalising school funding was never a sensible idea. …
Great was the joy caused by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon’s stunning coup de theatre on that Monday morning when she suddenly confirmed that the Scottish government does indeed intend to …
Turkey is a Nato ally, a partner in the fight against the so-called Islamic State, a key player in helping to tackle the current migrant crisis, a guarantor power in …
Few people, inside or outside the Labour Party, would disagree that the party is facing some very serious problems, which extend well beyond whom should lead it. As someone who …
Expenditure on the Crown Prosecution Service has been reduced significantly from £672 million per annum in 2009-10 to £487 million in 2015. That is a massive cut of £185 million …
This is a complex subject, but basic issues of fairness, justice and dignity in old age are at its heart. The Pensions Act 1995, brought in John Major’s Conservative Government, …
The defiance, the determination, the sincerity; they were all genuine. But so was the common denominator of the question which blew like a sandstorm back in her face. Why a …
There is a spectre haunting the world’s left. It is the ghost of the Comintern. Over sixty years since Nikita Khrushchev blew the whistle on the “workers’ state,” and a …
Everyone in Britain who believes in progressive politics and social justice would agree that this Conservative Government is failing. But even by its own standards, the modern Conservative Party is …
So, if we put to one side Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad’s claim that the entire chemical attack on Kheir Shakhoun in his country’s Idlib province was faked, who do we …
How sleazy does a rich client have to be for Bell Pottinger, the London-based image makers (or PR fakers), to fire them? The toxicity level must be positively stratospheric as …
We’re coming up to the 20th anniversary of Labour’s election victory of May 1997, even if many party members now seem to think that Tony Blair’s routing of John Major’s …
The current stramash over the ‘chumocracy’ that held sway during David Cameron’s premiership should surprise few people. After all, the House of Lords is currently bloated by cronies who enjoyed …
Leave personal vanity at the door of the social club in the city suburbs. This is the real gig economy. You don’t get paid, and you can get a lot …
If there’s one thing better than enjoying yourself, it’s watching people you don’t like having a bad time. This is always fun, but sometimes it is utter bliss: those wonderful …
That’s my story In Northern Ireland, the ‘Stakeknife affair’ is getting murkier, with ongoing questions over Pamela Atchison’s role in a decision not to prosecute an alleged IRA spy for …
She’s leaving home The exodus from Jeremy Corbyn’s office is turning into a flood. Nancy Platts, the trade union liaison officer for the Labour Leader’s office, has handed in her …
Greece is once again on the international agenda as the IMF and the EU continue to squabble about what steps should next be taken for this endlessly afflicted economy. On …
Last week I was privileged to interview the remarkable LGBT activist Cleve Jones about his moving new memoir, When We Rise, the inspiration for a major prime time miniseries currently …
And what part of County Antrim are you from?” Okay, I know a golden rule of journalism writing is don’t begin with a quote, but I’m breaking that rule as …
The 2017 Budget on 8 March confirmed that, while there was extra money for social care and a small amount of extra capital funding for the NHS, there would be …
