Starting at 6pm today, Friday 5 September, tube union RMT will begin a new wave of rolling strike action. Currently, it’s set to last until Thursday 11 September. Alongside this, a separate dispute over pay and conditions also sees Docklands Light Railway workers taking action from Sunday ...
On Friday 5 September, Donald Trump will sign his 200th executive order since coming to office. This order will rebrand the US Department of Defense as the ‘Department of War’. Meanwhile, Secretary of State Marco Rubio is posturing that the US stands ready to “blow up” foreign criminals. B...
On Wednesday 3 September, investigative journalism site Drop Site published a report on a contract between Israel’s government and Google to amplify propaganda regarding the war on Gaza. Documents available on the Israeli Government Procurement Administration’s website detail contracts bet...
On Wednesday 3 September, a US federal court ruled that billions of dollars of funding cuts inflicted on Harvard University by the Trump administration were unlawful. Judge Allison Burroughs found that the historic institution’s free-speech rights were violated when the president cancelled...
Deputy prime minister Angela Rayner has owned up about massively underpaying stamp duty on her second home. The seaside flat in Hove, worth some £800k, could now cost her as much as £40,000 extra according to experts. Angela Rayner: WTF? Rayner, who also acts as Labour’s secretary of state...
On Tuesday 2 September, assisted dying campaign group My Death My Decision (MDMD), alongside Humanists UK, hosted an event at the House of Lords. The event is just days ahead of the second reading of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, which sets out criteria for “lawful assistan...
On Tuesday 2 September, the House of Commons heard a statement from Labour MP Jess Phillips on the status of a new statutory national inquiry into group-based child sexual exploitation, more commonly referred to as ‘grooming gangs’. The inquiry is one among twelve courses of action recomme...
A US federal judge just barred president Trump from deploying military forces in California for law enforcement. This includes actions such as using the National Guard for crowd control, arrests and searches. The ruling is a major blow to Trump’s mounting militarisation of policing within ...
Zack Polanski was just elected leader of the Green Party by an absolute landslide. The former deputy party leader beat back rivals Adrian Ramsay and Ellie Chowns by almost 17,000 votes. Then, when asked if he’d rule out working with Keir Starmer’s Labour Party in a hung parliament situatio...
Community members in York have come together in support of the Dragon House Chinese takeaway in York after it was sprayed with racist graffiti. Sadly, this is just one example among an outbreak of similar incidents of vandalism across the country. York community rallies round Chinese takea...