Category
UK
What’s left of Burnham’s promise?
Three months into his premiership, Andy Burnham’s cost-of-living wins amount to a few pounds a week – while the policy he once championed loudest, rent controls, has been ruled out by his own government. The party’s Liverpool conference is where that gap gets harder to ignore.
Rent controls won’t wreck landlords, but record rents are wrecking renters
Rents are at record highs and still rising. The landlord lobby says rent controls would wreck the market. The evidence says otherwise.
Arms export system ‘rigged’ to keep weapons flowing to Saudi Arabia and Israel, says report
Campaign Against Arms Trade says successive governments have sidestepped their own licensing rules and international law and the Burnham government shows no sign of changing course.
Jamie Driscoll’s plan to escape Britain’s economic doom loop
The former North of Tyne mayor turned Green councillor on his new report Hostage Nation – and why the left needs a plan for power, not just an argument for it.
Windfall tax on BAE and Rolls-Royce could fund Yemen reparations, report says
As the PM reportedly weighs Saudi requests for military support in the Yemen war, a new report calls for a windfall tax on UK arms firms’ Saudi profits and full reparations for a conflict that left half the country needing aid.
Piddington: grassroots disaster nationalism has arrived in middle England
Only 285 villagers voted – but the breathless media coverage shows disaster nationalism has found a comfortable home in wealthy, middle England.
Reform’s £72m crypto weekend exposes Labour’s failure of nerve on donations
Two billionaires now account for more than four-fifths of all the money Reform UK has ever raised. Andy Burnham had a chance to cap it last week – and didn’t take it.
Buses, bins and ballots: the disputes still running this autumn
A quick tour of the fights that haven’t gone away – one just won, one just paused rather than solved, one that’s cost a council £33m and counting, one that might not be over after all, and the rules changing underneath all of them.
London bus drivers force citywide air-con climbdown after summer of 50-degree cabs
Unite members at Arriva North London won by striking. Now every bus operator in the capital has been forced to follow suit.