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
"I've seen first-hand the experience of the wealth tax, the solidarity tax in Spain and it raised billions of euros." The post TUC leader urges Labour to tax the rich and banks to fight Reform appeared first on The London Economic.| The London Economic
From housing, transport, the arena, Colston and more, a lot has changed since the mayor was first elected| Bristol Live
“This is the person who the Greens just elected as their new leader”| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
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
After being appointed as Labour’s opportunity mission champion last year, I made it clear my role was to get out and learn from the education institutions that are making a real difference. It is of course important to know the national numbers on how many students are studying which qualifications and what they progress to.... Read more » The post Sarah Smith: ‘Backing Institutes of Technology can help deliver Labour’s opportunity mission’ appeared first on Politics.co.uk.| Politics.co.uk
Keir Starmer has approached the first anniversary of him becoming prime minister in a ruminative, rueful mood. Across a series of long-form interviews, he has seized on the opportunity to appraise his year-old premiership; the account of events delivered in Starmer’s media meditations is candid, well-considered and — perhaps unintentionally — scathing. The PM’s inaugural... Read more » The post One year of Keir: why Starmer now faces a reckoning appeared first on Politics.co.uk.| Politics.co.uk
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
'Unfair' rules leaving more pensioners facing income tax bill| Birmingham Live
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
A new poll shows that Jeremy Corbyn's party is poised to tear the teen vote apart, wiping out Labour's lead just as 16 and 17 year-olds prepare to cast their ballots for the first time in a general election. The post Jeremy Corbyn’s New Party Would Split Teen Vote, Poll Reveals appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.| The Daily Sceptic
Perhaps the biggest obstacle in the way of Chris Hipkins and the Labour Party winning next year's general election is Chris Hipkins and the Labour Party. So why should the Green Party support it? | AGAINST THE CURRENT
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
We asked Sir Trevor Chinn why he’s donated so much money to Labour, after he held an undisclosed meeting with Britain’s foreign secretary. The post David Lammy held off the books meeting with pro-Israel lobbyist appeared first on Declassified UK.| Declassified UK
Declassified files show Britain has long known of Israel’s criminality against Palestinians, as Whitehall has deepened its military, trade and diplomatic support. The post UK aware of Israel’s ‘terror’ for over 20 years appeared first on Declassified UK.| Declassified UK
Declassified obtained the Israeli ambassador’s schedule, exposing how an array of pro-Israel lobbyists, Labour party donors and businessmen frequent her embassy in London. The post Revealed: The Tzipi Hotovely diary appeared first on Declassified UK.| Declassified UK
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
The authoritarian impulse to eliminate disagreement and dampen hope will only push voters towards the extremes. Apparently if you’re awful […] The post ‘A Government That Crushes Dissent and Eliminates Hope Will Never Prosper’ appeared first on Compass.| Compass
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
The following article is a response to Wes Streeting’s opinion piece that he has just published in the Guardian (July 24). Wes Streeting is a perfect capitalist representative, as is his political party, and in Streeting’s latest missive he makes a strong case for why the British Medical Association (BMA) should sign up to affiliate […]| Thoughts of a Leicester Socialist
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
In our special live event this afternoon, all six candidates faced posed by YOU, our readers| Birmingham Live
The by-election is expected to take place following Mike Amesbury's resignation after he was handed a suspended prison sentence| Liverpool Echo
The council needs to find £23 million of savings this year| Leicestershire Live
A 2 per cent wealth tax on assets over £10 million could generate an additional £24 billion per year, campaigners say| Birmingham Live
The major state pension announcement from DWP boss Liz Kendall is 'right' according to Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves.| Chronicle Live
If you were a Labour Party member during the leadership election and the early days of Keir Starmer, you’ll remember all the wry jokes about his stated aim of creating ‘a party of unity’. We very q…| Kay Green
When tackling child poverty becomes a political choice and not a moral duty| The Left Berlin
New report shows that 98,000 people are denied the social care they need compared to 15 years ago, while Labour does nothing about it.| Socialist Worker
05/07/2024. London, United Kingdom. Rachel Reeves, Chancellor of the Exchequer poses for a photograph following her appointment to Cabinet by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer in 10 Downing Street. P…| Westminster Confidential
Labour's Planning and Infrastructure Bill aims to allow companies to pay to trash the British countryside. It will do away with existing checks and balances in the planning system and establish a legal framework allowing developers to destroy irreplaceable natural ecosystems. Corporations will pay into a planned Nature Restoration Fund…| Protect the Wild
On April 2, Leicester’s Labour-led council opened a CONsultation on their plans to cut funding for our libraries and community centres “by up to £2.1million.” And while the results of the consultat…| Thoughts of a Leicester Socialist
Capitalist politicians of all stripes love a good scapegoat, with an ideal candidate being someone new, like a migrant from a foreign country. And history sadly gives us too many examples of such d…| Thoughts of a Leicester Socialist
The changes will hit some of the poorest city families| Leicestershire Live
The spending has been branded a 'waste' by one councillor| Leicestershire Live
Some believe it is 'nothing more than a temporary band-aid' that 'kicks the issue down the road'| Leicestershire Live
The Prime Minister challenged Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch over the policy| Birmingham Live
As is to be expected, Labour's water industry review prevented the actual solution to the chaos from even being considered| Canary
The Government has confirmed a U-turn over the winter fuel allowance| Birmingham Live
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
Kate Jayden believes they have broken the women's record for marathons run on consecutive days, after running a marathon every day since 1 January. | ITV News Central| 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
The fossil fuel companies behind Rosebank and Jackdaw oil and gas projects have vowed to pursue the legal cases against them.| Canary
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
Four million state pensioners face shelling out HUNDREDS more if Angela Rayner does away with the single person council tax discount.| Birmingham Live
Coventry council will decide on the plans next week| Coventry Live
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
Who could have predicted that Labour targeting pensioners then going on holiday would enrage the entire country? Not Starmer, it seems...| Canary
Without some U-turns, Starmer’s popularity will continue to decline, and hard-right Labour vultures will swoop. Anyone got a lettuce?| Canary
Peter Stefanovic has exposed the new Labour government's hypocrisy in pursuing the Tory's appeal against its unlawful anti-protest laws| Canary
The legal defence may be gone, but Labour and the fossil fuel companies could still try to push ahead with Rosebank| Canary
LBC host James O'Brien branding Starmer's austerity speech as 'boring' shows a liberal client media working to shield Labour from criticism.| Canary
Starmer is moving forward with his anti-democratic reforms for Labour as his team reiterates plans to strip members of the leadership vote| 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
Ofgem has announced a higher energy price cap, meaning bills will rise this winter, just as Labour cuts support to millions of pensioners.| Canary
As Labour Party panders to right-wing fascists in the wake of the UK race riots, a migrant rights non-profit has exposed its latest plans| 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
Feargal Sharkey has launched a coalition to tackle water companies spilling sewage into UK waterways and take the government to task.| Canary
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
Il y a encore dix ans, personne n’aurait fait du sexe et du genre des questions au cœur du clivage gauche-droite au Royaume-Uni, mais nous sommes en 2024.| Debbie Hayton
There were "serious errors" on the part of the state in the run-up to Covid-19 - including failing to take inequality into account.| Chronicle Live
This election feels like a turning point. It's not just about a change in government led by Keir Starmer, but potentially a fundamental shift in how our democracy functions. As smaller parties gain ground and the political landscape becomes more diverse, we may be entering a new era of British politics| NevilleHobson .com
James Coe and David Kernohan run through what we know and what we can guess about the new post-compulsory arms length body| Wonkhe
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 Media Ltd
Labour have won the general election - But what impact could their manifesto on making work pay have for business owners| Progeny
British Gas, OVO, Octopus, EDF and Eon customers have been warned energy bills could be £500 lower by anti-poverty experts.| Birmingham Live
This wasn't planned, but it's too big and complicated for a tweet, and so I'm putting it out as a quickie. As the title suggests, it concerns Coleg Soros in Talgarth, otherwise known as Black Mountains College. For those new to this blog, or regulars with short memories, I have written a few times about…| Jac o' the North
