As many as 46,000 nurses could leave the UK if Labour follows through with a proposal to increase the qualifying period for indefinite leave to remain (ILR) from 5 to 10 years. The Royal College of Nurses (RCN) has raised the alarm. Their latest research suggests that the Labour government...
Housing secretary Steve Reed is expected to announce that local councils will lose their power to prevent large-scale housing developments. The move is part of Labour’s plan to build 1.5 million new homes before the next general election. However, the proposed changes have already come und...
It is right if those people have money in the bank, people have assets like cars, like e-bikes, they should be contributing. No, we’re not going to be taking people’s heirlooms off them at the border. But we do want, there is an individual for example who is getting £800 sent to him, he ha...
Across UK universities, we’re seeing union members undertaking a massive wave of industrial action in recent weeks. Currently, over 65,000 University and College Union (UCU) members are having their say on potential nationwide university strikes. The ballot opened back on 30 October, and w...
On 12 November, popular 79-year-old author Michael Rosen posted on Twitter that the Freedom Pass didn’t work. For anyone outside of the London bubble, a Freedom Pass provides free or discounted public travel for London residents who have a disability or are aged over 60. Unfortunately, whe...
As the Canary recently reported, the University of Nottingham (UoN) has announced that it intends to suspend 48 of its courses. This would effectively mean the end of the Music, Modern Languages, and American and Canadian Studies departments as a whole. Now, staff, students and members of ...
NHS resident doctors are set to walk out on strike tomorrow to protest against dwindling pay and a lack of trainee posts. The planned industrial action, organised by the British Medical Association (BMA), will no doubt cause major disruptions given that junior doctors make up over half of ...
Health secretary Wes Streeting has told NHS bosses to begin the next phase of Labour’s plan for the integration of NHS England with the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC). The government is claiming that, by the end of parliament, the NHS cuts from “unnecessary bureaucracy” will ...
On the night of Tuesday 11 November, activists from radical grassroots collective Climate Resistance projected their demands for wealth taxation onto a Tory donor’s superyacht. Baron Irvine Laidlaw’s boat, named “Lady Christine”, cost some $70 million – plus an estimated $7m annual upkeep....
On Tuesday 11 November, deputy PM David Lammy unveiled a new plan to crack down on mistaken prison releases. We shit you not, the proposal is to set up a court hotline and to use an AI checker. What could possibly go wrong? ‘New guardrails’ According to government figures, prisons mistaken...