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Building social housing could save the government billions, report finds
Building more council houses would save the government billions of pounds in housing benefit and make renters significantly better off according to new research released on Friday.An analysis co → Read More
This starkly threatening 2013 tweet exposes the Home Office's ongoing cruelty
A threatening Valentine’s day tweet posted by the Home Office six years ago has resurfaced on Twitter, where hundreds of people have branded it ‘disgraceful’ and ‘cruel’ and expressed disbe → Read More
Journalists face 'alarming' rise in far-right violence, union says
Britain’s trade union for journalists has raised concerns about a rise in far-right attacks on reporters and photographers. The NUJ has reported an alarming spate of recent incidents of intimidati → Read More
The Thai Women Behind the First Bar Run Entirely by Sex Workers
Can Do in northern Thailand is probably the first—and only—completely sex worker-owned bar in the world. → Read More
Parental Leave: Major employers agree to publish policies in bid to tackle gender inequality
Lib Dem deputy leader Jo Swinson is pushing for all companies with more than 250 employees to make parental leave and pay details public. → Read More
How councils are starting to tackle dire work conditions in the care sector
Carers face poverty wages, precarious employment and isolation, limiting their ability to help vulnerable people. → Read More
Campaigners to challenge Tories on refusal to hold inquiry into Brexit cheating
The Prime Minister could be forced to launch a public inquiry into overspending by the Vote Leave campaign through a judicial review. → Read More
Anti-racism group: Boris' burka comments caused a spike in hate crime against Muslim women
The Tory politician has normalised racism, and may have made the unacceptable seem acceptable to people with underlying prejudices, says charity. → Read More
Social housing green paper slammed for failing to include new affordable homes
The Tories should be building at least 30,000 new affordable homes each year. Last year they built less than 6,000. → Read More
Nurses demand union leaders stand down in row over pay deal
With the NHS pay deal failing to deliver what it promised, thousands of nurses have lost faith in their union. → Read More
UKIP refused to cooperate with personal data investigation, says ICO
Every other political party cooperated fully with the investigators. → Read More
Academies still wasting taxpayers' money, say MPs
Education ministers must change the way they scrutinise prospective academies to ensure the schools will actually improve learning and won't just squander taxpayers' money, a damning new report has found. → Read More
We helped to halt Opelo Kgari's deportation. There is hope we can change the detention system for good
The failed attempt to deport Yarl’s Wood hunger striker Opelo Kgari highlights how deeply flawed and unjust the system is. And it shows we have the power to change things. An attempt to suppress dissent in Yarl’s Wood by unlawfully deporting two asylum seekers proves the hunger striker’s point: The Home Office is ‘not fit for purpose… [and operating] in a rogue manner’ → Read More
NHS staff are fighting back against outsourcing to ‘arms length’ companies
Up to 1,650 local hospital staff across two different NHS trusts face transfer to subsidiary companies, where unions worry their employment rights could be eroded away. → Read More
A 'Minister for Loneliness' won't fix our broken society
Tory policies have fragmented society and left us all feeling isolated. Creating a 'Minister for Loneliness' now is too little too late → Read More
Almost everybody thinks the government was wrong to bail out StageCoach – even Conservatives
As the Carillion collapse raises questions about outsourcing contracts, it appears the public has finally had enough of privatisation, with 57% calling for our railways to be renationalised → Read More
People are being sent to prison unlawfully for not being able to afford council tax
A judge has said that up to 18% of council tax imprisonments a year may be 'unlawful' → Read More
The Tories are hiding where their action on plastic is coming from…
Michael Gove and Theresa May are claiming credit for extending the 5p charge on plastic bags, but it's actually EU legislation - which the Tories opposed. → Read More
Nick Clegg thinks 'Corbynites' are being unfair about his Knighthood
The former Lib Dem leader claims he's not a failure: 'History will smile on the coalition'. → Read More
NHS commissioning groups accepted millions in 'secret' payments from drug companies
An investigation has revealed hundreds of undisclosed payments from pharma companies to the organisations responsible for buying and commissioning our healthcare services. → Read More