Continuing his bid to become Britain’s sad intimidation of Donald Trump, Nigel Farage has been forging ties with an American fundamentalist Christian group that’s seeking to ban abortion in the UK. The Reform leader spent 3 hours this week before Congress in the US, testifying against the ...
Tesco is reportedly in talks to join the Department for Work and Pensions-commissioned (DWP) ‘Keep Britain Working’ (KBW) review. The new scheme is part of the Get Britain Working white paper. It’s aimed at keeping disabled people and those with health conditions in work. Retail giants and...
Yesterday, 15 October, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) took down the interim trans guidance from its website. The EHRC rushed its guidelines out in April, just days after the Supreme Court decision to interpret “sex” as purely referring to sex recorded at birth for the purp...
Yesterday, 15 October, court hearings began for the roughly 2,000 people who stand accused of showing support for Palestine Action. The government proscribed the campaign group as a terrorist organisation back in July. The move came after Palestine Action sprayed paint at two military plan...
Yesterday, 15 October, grassroots organisation the Access to Work Collective delivered an open letter with over 17,000 signatures to 10 Downing Street. Lib Dem MP Steve Darling and Green MP Carla Denyer also lent their support to the letter. It follows the launch of the collective’s #Acces...
Last week, Drop Site News reported on a new fellowship set up by prominent US journalist Jacki Karsh, along with her husband Jeff. The fellowship’s website states that: The Jacki and Jeff Karsh Journalism Fellowship equips journalists to report with depth, rigor, and clarity on Jewish issu...
Yesterday, 14 October, the city of Sheffield received a first-hand demonstration of the consequences of Yorkshire Water’s repeated failures to maintain its infrastructure. A burst pipe in the city centre caused the closure of three major roads, with fountains of water reportedly reaching 6...
Delegates at Unison’s retired members’ conference were greeted with a shocking statistic. Nearly 1.9 million pensioners in the UK now live in poverty – an absolutely damning figure for the sixth richest country in the world. Meanwhile, projections show that the problem is only set to get w...
This morning, in front of a railway platform packed with commuters, a group of women made a citizen’s arrest of Mark Thurston, CEO of Anglian Water. The group was part of the Citizen’s Arrest Network (CAN), an activist community that’s seeking to hold the UK’s biggest polluters to account....
A new study from disability charity Scope has highlighted the hefty price tag of being disabled in the UK – and the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are certainly not helping. It costs an extra £1,095 each month for disabled households to achieve the same standard of living as their ...