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The Benefit of Benefits

By Sean Michael Wilson Over the last 5 years people of left wing views have been focusing a lot on how the Tories are making life worse for people in the UK. Increasing student debt, decreasing housing benefit, making welfare payments more difficult to access, etc. But certain people, of a ...

In or Out? Reviewing the Evening Standard EU Debate

IN: Chuka Umunna (Labour MP for Streatham) Carolyn Fairburn (Director-General of the CBI) Rohan Silva (Tech entrepreneur) OUT: Daniel Hannan (Conservative MEP) Munira Mirza (Former Deputy Mayor for Health and Education) Jenny Jones (Green Party peer) On 7th June, the Royal Geographical Society in South Kensington staged a debate held ...

We’re all poorer for this EU ‘debate’

“Above all, it is criminal to excite anger and discontent without proposing a remedy, or only proposing a false remedy” --- Theodore Roosevelt, How Not to Help Our Poorer Brothers, 1987 Foreigners! Terror! Instability! Economic bombs! Elites! Democracy! Arrest warrants would fill several grand rooms if we were subject to ...

Researchers say Trident is being secretly upgraded

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor A report has claimed that secret work is underway to upgrade the current Trident weapons to be more accurate and devastating that ever, while an entirely new system is being developed. According to the Nuclear Information Service upgrading work in happening at Britain’s nuclear bomb ...

Tories ditch law allowing police to spy on unions

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor John Hayes, a Tory and “proud union member,” is a rare beast in the corridors of Westminster. Unlike many in his party he believes in the need for strong unions and he accepted Labour alterations to the Investigatory Powers Bill. This means that the Government ...

Corbyn’s PMQs leaked, claims his top adviser

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Seumas Milne, Corbyn’s communications chief, believes that their PMQs preparations are being leaked internally. During a documentary for Vice News, where they followed Corbyn for eight weeks, Milne mentioned the “annoying” leaks. These leaks are giving the Tories the advantage at PMQs, the main focus ...

Is Ed Miliband heading for shadow cabinet?

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor The have been hints from Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn that ex-leader Ed Miliband might be moving into the shadow cabinet. Corbyn described Miliband as a “great asset,” but he has been keepingout of the limelight since the Labour’s poor showing at the election, that ultimately ...

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