Scottish Labour have announced their new leader -Richard Leonard – a big victory for the left of the party, which will be seen as Jeremy Corbyn shoring up his hold on the party. The candidate of the left immediately called for unity after a hotly fought and bitter Scottish Labour ...
The harsh austerity plan rolled out under consecutive Conservative governments has been linked to 120,000 deaths in Britain. According to a damning landmark study there were 45,000 more deaths in the first four years of Tory-led efficiencies than would have been expected if funding had stayed at pre-election levels. On this ...
A series of Twitter messages between WikiLeaks and the President’s son during the period before and just after the US election has been leaked. The correspondence had been turned over to a congressional investigation into Russian interference in the US election - with WikiLeaks suspected of having been a conduit. ...
As I am a kale eating, energy conserving, Trump loathing, Corbyn loving, Lily Allen listening, hug a tree, kiss a bee, spray paint on a bedsheet and wave it at the march activist - no animals harmed in the making of products and does no one think of the children? ...
As winter closes in life for people on the streets becomes even worse, with an increase chance of death due to the plummeting temperature. With this is mind new research, released today, has indicated that one in 200 people in England is homeless. The report, by Shelter, has found that ...
The British mainstream media is refusing to cover the Paradise Papers because most of the avoiders own the newspapers, James O'Brien has claimed. Speaking on LBC today O'Brien launched a scathing attack on Telegraph owners David and Frederick Barclay, Daily Mail owner Jonathan Harmsworth and The Sun and The Times owner Rupert Murdoch for ...
The British Council, whose patron is the Queen, were within their rights to sack a senior worker who described Prince George as the "face of white privilege" on a Facebook post, a tribunal has ruled. Angela Gibbins, 53, was given her marching orders after the "distasteful and personal attack" on ...
A document on the Labour Party’s democracy review has been leaked outlining how the party plans to involve its hugely expanded membership to become a mass movement which can transform society. As of June 2017, Labour had 552,000 members, far out-performing the Tories 149,800 members and Lib Dems 102,000 members. And now the party ...
The level of inequality in Britain far outstretches that of our European neighbours or other G7 countries, a new graph has revealed. According to OECD figures published in The Economist the richest people in the UK are leaps and bounds ahead of the poorest groups in terms of GDP per person. ...