Residents say Derby incinerator that 'smells of rotten food' should be shut - Derbyshire Live
Testing of the site began 12 months ago and almost immediately led to complaints from residents| Derbyshire Live
This piece is totally unplanned; but I want to get it out because I see so many misinterpreting the result and failing – or refusing to understand – what lies behind it. ◊ PLAID CYMRU AND LABOUR, LABOUR AND PLAID CYMRU Let me begin by congratulating Plaid Cymru on a great victory. As I’ve mentioned … Continue reading Caerffili By-election: Random Thoughts| Jac o' the North
The Communication Workers Union (COWU) in Kenya has held a national strike, on Monday 27 October, stopping all operations at the Postal Corporation of Kenya (PCK), as more than 2,000 employees downed their tools in protest over unpaid salaries stretching beyond six months. Speaking during the launch of the industrial action, Secretary General Benson Okwaro […] The post ‘This strike will persist until justice is served!’ 2,000 Kenya postal workers unpaid for 6 months! appeared first on W...| Workers Revolutionary Party
THE DEMANDS for the Labour government to slash all government spending on welfare is reaching a crescendo in the run-up to Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ budget next month. Last week, one of the bosses at the world’s largest bank JP Morgan instructed Reeves to cut public spending, singling out pensioners as a prime target for being […] The post Demands ramped up for Labour to slash pensions, benefits and NHS spending to rescue British capitalism from bankruptcy appeared first on Workers Revo...| Workers Revolutionary Party
The Labour government that rules the United Kingdom is hardly a year old, but its time is already coming to an end. Its popular legitimacy has collapsed, and it is visibly losing control of both the British state and its territories. Every conversation not about proximate policy is about the successor government: which party will... Read more about: Britain’s Last Election The post Britain’s Last Election appeared first on The American Mind.| The American Mind
MORE than 100,000 nurses, teachers, firefighters and other public sector workers walked off the job across Aotearoa, New Zealand, on Thursday in one of the largest coordinated strikes in the country’s history. The unprecedented mobilisation, dubbed a ‘mega strike’ by organisers, brought together more than 60,000 school teachers, 40,000 nurses and medical specialists, and around […] The post Workers rise up across New Zealand in historic ‘mega strike’ appeared first on Workers Revo...| Workers Revolutionary Party
IN WHAT was described as a ‘historic first’, a UK navy destroyer, HMS Duncan, was placed under the direct command of NATO and ordered to shadow a Russian warship as it passed through the English Channel. While it is common for UK navy vessels to track Russian ships travelling through the Channel, what made this […] The post NATO plans for war on Russia as capitalism crashes! Forward with world revolution appeared first on Workers Revolutionary Party.| Workers Revolutionary Party
New Zealanders should be wary of politicians bearing Future Funds, writes Bryce Edwards.| AGAINST THE CURRENT
THE Guardian newspaper reported yesterday that officials from Gaza’s health ministry had told it that at least 135 mutilated bodies of Palestinians returned by Israel to them had been held at the notorious Sde Teiman military base in the Negev desert. This military camp hit the headlines last year when photos and testimonies were published […] The post 135 mutilated bodies of Palestinians tortured and murdered in Israeli prisons returned to Gaza appeared first on Workers Revolutionary Party.| Workers Revolutionary Party
At the end of September, 40 years after Margaret Thatcher scrapped rent controls – and after a decade of campaigning by Living Rent, the Scottish tenants’ union for which I’m an organiser – the Scottish government finally reintroduced them, the first country in the UK to do so. The newly-passed Housing (Scotland) Act will allow […]| Novara Media
Amid the bumpy launch of a new left-wing party and the rise of the Greens and Reform, the ACFM crew turn their attention to the idea of the party. Do we still need political parties? Do parties bring people together, or merely exclude those who aren’t invited? And should a political party have anything in common […]| Novara Media
ON SUNDAY, US president Donald Trump insisted that his ‘peace deal’ between the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas and the Israeli regime was holding despite the continued deadly strikes being carried out by Israeli Occupation Force troops in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. The Gaza Government Media Office yesterday reported that Israel has killed at […] The post Israeli regime deliberately violating ‘peace deal’ since very first day appeared first on Workers Revolutionary Party.| Workers Revolutionary Party
We can’t let this be a one-term government. “If there was an election tomorrow, which party would you vote for?”. […] The post Labour’s Deputy Leadership Election is a Battle for Democracy appeared first on Compass.| Compass
Testing of the site began 12 months ago and almost immediately led to complaints from residents| Derbyshire Live
Ahead of the 2027 general elections in Nigeria, Peter Gregory Obi has spoken on changing the country’s trajectory in four years if elected into power.| Legit.ng - Nigeria news.
THE Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), an influential independent economic think-tank that dispenses ‘advice’ on financial matters to the government, has weighed in this week with some serious warnings to Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves about next month’s Autumn Budget. This Budget has become a make-or-break crisis for both Reeves and the Starmer government as they […] The post Capitalist financial markets instruct Reeves to make billions of pounds cuts to welfare! appeared first on ...| Workers Revolutionary Party
A GENERAL STRIKE for Palestine takes place in Spain today, with the different unions maintaining their calls for worldwide action to end the genocide in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Major unions, such as CGT and IAC, have called for a total strike and for all workers to stop throughout the working day. […] The post GENERAL STRIKE FOR PALESTINE! – across Spain today appeared first on Workers Revolutionary Party.| Workers Revolutionary Party
THE JOINT annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank is taking place in Washington this week under conditions of the most acute crisis of the capitalist system in history. On Friday, they received a brutal shock when Donald Trump announced he had been ‘blindsided’ by China’s new rules requiring companies […] The post World bankers meet in Washington as crisis erupts across the capitalist financial system appeared first on Workers Revolutionary Party.| Workers Revolutionary Party
It took the power of Andy Burnham’s example to tame Robert Jenrick. Expectations heading into the Conservative Party’s annual conference suggested the shadow justice secretary would continue to strut his stuff in front of his activist admirers. But Jenrick, by his usual insubordinate standards, was a model of servility. For this, Kemi Badenoch likely has... Read more » The post Week-in-Review: Starmer and Badenoch repel their pretenders – for now appeared first on Politics.co.uk.| Politics.co.uk
They say never meet your heroes, but I have to disagree. Last week in London I met president Barack Obama. He radiated charisma, charm and patience to all the many people he encountered. I especially appreciated how kind and attentive he was when he met my two daughters. “Daughters are the best”, he said to me,... Read more » The post Obama in London: Have Starmer and Labour already shown they were listening? appeared first on Politics.co.uk.| Politics.co.uk
“Now, the Tories – do you remember them?” Keir Starmer had spoken for a full 50 minutes before acknowledging the existence of Labour’s historic rival. The line was met with laughter – a fleeting moment of levity in an otherwise headstrong conference speech. Even then, Kemi Badenoch’s party was reduced to a rhetorical device, rather... Read more » The post Week-in-Review: The calling of Keir Starmer appeared first on Politics.co.uk.| Politics.co.uk
A personal perspective from Ken Spours. Factionalism, division and failure Political factionalism invariably leads to failure. Even when you think […] The post The New Mainstream: Radical realism to unite a fractured Labour Party and a divided nation appeared first on Compass.| Compass
A popular image hosting website has stopped its services in the UK after regulators threatened a fine.| Express.co.uk
A senior minister has referred to the Liberal Democrat leader, Ed Davey, as a “fat bloke in a wetsuit”. Torsten Bell, who serves jointly as a pensions and Treasury minister, delivered the remarks while speaking to a fringe event at Labour Party conference. Bell said: “What Britain needs to tackle [Reform UK leader Nigel] Farage... Read more » The post Labour branded ‘nasty party’ after minister calls Ed Davey ‘fat bloke in wetsuit’ appeared first on Politics.co.uk.| Politics.co.uk
Delivering the Robin Cook memorial lecture was one of the greatest privileges of my time in Parliament. But it wasn’t just a privilege – it was a burden too. The name Robin Cook still carries a weight that few in politics today can match. To honour it properly meant going beyond platitudes, to wrestle with... Read more » The post Clive Lewis: ‘Robin Cook showed us politics at its most serious. Labour has lost that balance’ appeared first on Politics.co.uk.| Politics.co.uk
Immigrants will be required to meet stricter conditions in order to earn the right to stay in the UK permanently, under a new government crackdown. Labour has announced that a government consultation will be launched on plans to make settlement dependent on paying national insurance, claiming no benefits, learning English to a high standard, volunteering... Read more » The post Immigration crackdown necessary for ‘open, generous, tolerant’ society, Mahmood says appeared first on Politics...| Politics.co.uk
Keir Starmer has been urged to throw his support behind some form of proportional representation (PR) in order to embed Britain’s “progressive majority”. Paul Sweeney, member of the Scottish parliament (MSP) for the Glasgow region, warned that without electoral reform, the country could face a “horrendous scenario” leading to the “extinction of the United Kingdom”.... Read more » The post Back electoral reform to embed ‘progressive majority’ and thwart Farage, Starmer urged...| Politics.co.uk
Andy Burnham has vowed to continue the debate he has instigated over the direction of the Labour Party under Keir Starmer’s leadership, in a direct response to his internal critics. In his first major intervention at Labour’s annual conference in Liverpool, Burnham criticised a “climate of fear” in the party, which he suggested had been... Read more » The post Andy Burnham criticises ‘climate of fear’ in Labour with vow to continue ‘debate’ appeared first on Politics.co.uk.| Politics.co.uk
A little more than a year after their resounding general election win, the Labour Party gathers in Liverpool this weekend hoping to rekindle the goodwill that swept them into office in the summer of 2024. After a bruising year of negative headlines and sliding poll numbers, the word is that this year’s conference slogan will... Read more » The post Renewing the message: how can Labour fix its broken comms? appeared first on Politics.co.uk.| Politics.co.uk
'Our job now is to talk to the country, not to ourselves, about how we’re going to change the things that they care about.'| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
The perceived failures of Keir Starmer's government are feeding a right-wing looking to exploit people's vulnerabilities.| Big Issue
Labour’s Employment Rights Bill is set to fundamentally improve work for the millions of workers stuck on exploitative short and zero-hours contracts. But it’s not a done deal — key hurdles still need to be overcome to deliver what we promised at the last election. Not least the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats who have been... Read more »| Politics.co.uk
By Les Levidow. Reposted with thanks from the Ecologist A basic contradiction runs through UK climate policy. The government accepts that oil and gas extraction will increase, and that domestic uses will increase. It even promotes more airports and roads, thus intensifying climate vandalism. And yet ministers claim that their policy favours clean energy for […]| People and Nature
In the 22 years since it was founded, there has never been a more important moment in the life of […] The post Today we launched Mainstream. Here’s why. appeared first on Compass.| Compass
A city councillor is pressing for answers after she raised multiple concerns about harassment and coercion which she says have been ignored| Birmingham Live
Motoring experts claim illegal numbers plates are now widespread on UK roads| Birmingham Live
If Phillipson truly held working class values and anything other than contempt for our region, she would never be part of this Labour cabinet| Canary
Successful reshuffles have a theme and act as the launchpad for a refreshed government. Keir Starmer’s first major frontbench shake-up may be such an event. Unexpectedly bold and wide-ranging, this was the biggest mid-term reshuffle in nearly 20 years in terms of cabinet-level moves. It could well turn out to be the most significant moment... Read more »| Politics.co.uk
Labour’s Employment Rights Bill will become law in the next few weeks. But will it be watered down by 'pro-business' amendments?| Big Issue
The soft left of the Labour Party is dead and buried - so of course it's time for it to attack everyone else outside of its cult| Canary
Only 27 percent of eligible voters turned out for the Tamaki Makaura by election. Nevertheless, Orini Kaipara of Te Pati Maori still handed Labour's Peena Henare a heavy election defeat. But will it be enough to dislodge Labour from its continued loyalty to centrist politics?| AGAINST THE CURRENT
“Summer is definitely over”, exhaled a self-assured sounding Keir Starmer on Monday. The prime minister had just kicked off the new parliamentary term with a relatively wholesale rejig of his Downing Street operation. A new “chief secretary to the prime minister” post was created; Darren Jones, rated in Downing Street, was poached from the Treasury... Read more »| Politics.co.uk
Housing secretary Angela Rayner pledged to build 1.5 million houses. Her efforts to buy them has led to her downfall.| Socialist Worker
Councillors Marcus Vickers and David Reynard said residents of the town felt they were 'always back of the queue'| Teesside Live
The Department for Transport has confirmed that people will have to wait an extra year to get a free bus pass in England from next April| Lancs Live
Freeview is used in 16 million UK homes, making it the main TV platform for 40% of households and the largest TV service| Chronicle Live
According to the Flag Institute, fllags may be flown on every day of the year| Birmingham Live
From housing, transport, the arena, Colston and more, a lot has changed since the mayor was first elected| Bristol Live
Experts say tax rises are not enough to plug Britain's financial black hole and tough spending cuts on the ever-increasing welfare bill will be needed| Birmingham Live
At 10pm on July 4, 2024, when the exit poll was revealed — making it clear that Keir Starmer would be our next prime minister — our hopes for a better relationship between the UK and Europe, with all the economic benefits that would bring, were solidified. The public’s general mistrust in politics considered, to... Read more »| Politics.co.uk
A new study by The Bikeability Trust and Living Streets demanded a nationwide ban on pavement parking, mandatory cycle training in the national curriculum, and a default 20mph speed limit in urban areas.| Birmingham Live
Birmingham Council was told by the GMB union this month that progress on equal pay "is too slow"| Birmingham Live
Eurogroup meeting Arrival of UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves welcomed by President of the Eurogroup Paschal DONOHOE (Eurogroup President). Credit: Wikimedia The UK and European Union Recent opinion polls show an apparent majority preference for UK re entry to the European Union. But after recent history, the UK’s attempts to “reset” its EU relationship are not as straightforward as they seem. For starters, there is a total absence of UK political leadership or strategy on what might be an...| Lefteast
The attack ad, which was launched yesterday, refers to comments Farage made on the ‘Strike It Big’ podcast last year.| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
The UK Government has confirmed that Winter Fuel Payments will be issued automatically to around nine million people in England and Wales| Wales Online
It backfired...| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
New tax data has allayed fears of a mass non-dom exodus from the UK following Labour's crackdown on their tax status.| The London Economic
A viral post on X has perfectly explained why people should keep some faith in Keir Starmer and this Labour government.| The London Economic
Josh Morris delivers the July political report of the YCL Central Committee| Challenge Magazine
The UK Labour Party’s moral decline began with Ed “My Parents Are Refugees” Miliband’s betrayal of Syrian civilians for petty party-political ends. When I saw Labour MPs raise their arms in Parliament in triumph at winning a vote to abandon children to gas attacks, I resigned my lifelong membership of the party. But the main […]| PooterGeek
Leicester Labour-run Council have come under fire from UNISON’s General Secretary because of their refusal to act against racism in their workplace. Yesterday it was announced that Bindu Parmar had…| Thoughts of a Leicester Socialist
Exclusive: Parliament authorities launch probe into two MPs who met Israeli president Isaac Herzog| Declassified UK
The party ended with 34 councillors, two shy of the magic figure of 36 required to be bigger than all the other groups combined.| Bristol Live
Philip Cunliffe explains why nation-building is the solution to the impasse in Western politics identified by Perry Anderson as the Regime. In a recent essay for the London Review of Books, Perry A…| The Northern Star
The EHRC, under Kishwer Falkner, have been quick to launch new draft guidance on updating their Code of Practice for services, public functions and associations, in light of the recent Supreme Cour…| transponderings
It is a cliche of the policy-commentariat to point, laughing, at the number of Growth Plans to have sprung from the Government this century, and how badly correleated this is to success at their subject matter. The 2000s had the Five Drivers of Productivity (discussed here) – Investment, Skills, Innovation, Enterprise, and Competition. In 2010Continue reading "Why *should* growth be any better under Labour?"| Freethinking Economist
Peter Ramsay argues that the British right’s proposal for a Great Repeal Act only reveals the futility of its approach to the nation. An online Anglofuturist put out a video last week weaving toget…| The Northern Star
Aaron Wells explains how Labour’s new Planning and Infrastructure Bill is unlikely to untangle the political problems in the planning process that plays such a large part in Britain’s building cris…| The Northern Star
Starmer and the establishment are on a crusade of flag-waving jingoism: puffing out their chests on the world stage, and using the cover of militarism to prepare for attacks on workers at home. We say: down with these deluded warmongers!| The Communist
Labour has just announced billions in cuts to benefits, in an effort to drive the sick and ailing back to work, get the economy growing, and redirect money to ‘defence’. But the capitalist class are powerless to tackle Britain’s unemployment dilemma.| The Communist
ITV News obtained exclusive footage of hounds running onto the same track just weeks before. | ITV National News| ITV News
It is fair to credit Churchill’s relationship with Philip Snowden as a key influence over his appreciation for Labour colleagues in the greatest of all wars. Churchill’s affection for Snowden stemmed in part from knowing Philip was never a doctrinaire socialist. “The Marxian aberration never obsessed his keen intelligence,” WSC wrote. “One who knew him well said to me, ‘No one will ever know what a Labour Government will be like till they see one without Snowden at the Exchequer....| The Churchill Project – Hillsdale College
Another Councillor has quit the Labour Party| Bright Green
PEPF research explores how public opinion has changed following Labour's policy to add VAT to private school fees.| PEPF
After a series of unforced errors and a very public turf war inside No.10, new UK prime minister Keir Starmer’s reputation for quiet competence has taken a beating. Former Downing Street insiders diagnose the problem and offer some solutions| www.globalgovernmentforum.com
Diarmid McKenzie, chair of governors of a small fee-paying school in Devon| PEPF
It may seem innocuous that BBC Reporting Scotland dropped some spin for Labour over Great British Energy. But it's not.| Canary
Ex-DWP boss Iain Duncan Smith's Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) has launched two new reports & seems set to appear at the Labour conference| Canary
Coventry council agreed to bring in the move in February as part of cuts to services to save money. But an online petition backed by 1045 people is calling for the authority to re-consider the decision.| Coventry Live
The legal defence may be gone, but Labour and the fossil fuel companies could still try to push ahead with Rosebank| Canary
Labour pledged to bring energy bills down but Ofgem has announced energy price cap increases of 10%. Meanwhile, companies are raking it in.| Canary
The United Kingdom has enacted emergency measures to free thousands of criminals, including some violent offenders, as hundreds of anti-mass migration| The National Pulse
As the war in Eastern Europe escalates with Ukraine’s raid on Russia, Tara McCormack asks why Keir Starmer has pledged to put Ukraine at the heart of everything his government does. Britain’s new L…| The Northern Star
Peter Ramsay argues that the official reaction to the recent riots in England is an ideological distortion that seeks to deflect responsibility for national disintegration. The riots and disorder t…| The Northern Star
One of the small pleasures in life is post-election laughing at desperate Tories - and Thérèse Coffey and Mel Stride have given us that| Canary
Starmer urged Iran to refrain from retaliating for the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh - when it's Israel that needs to pull back| Canary
Labour Against Antisemitism (LAAS) has called for Labour Norwich South MP Clive Lewis's expulsion from the party| Canary
So it's finally happened: Jeremy Corbyn is potentially working with independent MPs Shockat Adam, Ayoub Khan, Adnan Hussain, and Iqbal Mohamed| Canary
Journalist Samantha Asumadu investigates the 'respectable' far right's response to the race riots and how the fringe left has influenced them| Canary
GMB host Ed Balls sucked up to another slimy right-winger, ex-MP Jonathan Ashworth. It's the thin end of the wedge of the client media rot.| Canary
New figures show how companies are profiteering through more creeping NHS privatisation - this time over mental health bed provision.| Canary
The corporate media is at it again stoking division. This time, it's pensioners versus DWP benefit fraud and claimants in more trash takes.| Canary
The UK’s general election result might seem like a restoration of the old pre-2016 political order. A bland technocrat has won a sweeping majority. However, Peter Ramsay and Philip Cunliffe argue t…| The Northern Star
Exclusive: Labour’s top team has accepted hundreds of thousands of pounds from pro-Israel funders.| Declassified Media Ltd
Stuart Roden started a company with an Israeli special forces veteran and a senior Conservative. He’s now among Labour’s top election donors.| Declassified UK
With a General Election looming, Peter Ramsay spoke last week at the London School of Economics about why the survival of the British nation is in doubt and why the politics of culture war are an e…| The Northern Star
The Crown Prosecution Service is refusing to release files on how Starmer blocked the arrest of former Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni over alleged war crimes during the brutal bombing of Gaza in 2008.| Declassified UK
Conservative politicians have accepted nearly £20,000 in funds from the Israel lobby, including for “solidarity” missions to the country, while Israel engages in war crimes, Declassified finds.| Declassified UK
Why I still wanted to be in the Labour Party I left Labour in a fit of pique in 2018 when the then General secretary, Jennie Formby, announced that all-women-shortlists would no longer be women onl…| Karen Ingala Smith
