Just 1% of the population own half of the land in England and Scotland. And in England, homeowners only hold 3% of the entire country, according to Who Owns Britain? – a report from Common Wealth. Modern times? Still a landed gentry, but with Instagram To modernise the country, we must sur...
Since the 1990s, the UK public has paid nearly £200bn to the corporate shareholders of privatised utilities, according to Common Wealth. The thinktank dubbed the wealth extraction a “privatisation premium” or a “double penalty” when paying to access what should be public services. The sect...
The BBC, Channel 4 and Labour all knew about the comments Labour director of strategy Paul Ovenden made about Diane Abbott, yet kept them buried for over a year. And then, on Monday 15 September someone appeared to leak them to the Daily Mail. The Canary has been told that the Daily Mail u...
The Telegraph ran a front page skewering Angela Rayner for dodging £40,000 in stamp duty when buying a third home in Hove, East Sussex. Why a Housing Minister needs three homes during a housing crisis is another matter. But the dodge led to Rayner’s resignation as said minister and as Depu...
Support for Nigel Farage’s Reform party among 18-24s has fallen to just 7% in the most recent YouGov voting intention survey. Compare that to 4 August where 21% of young people told YouGov they would vote for the far right party. That’s a drop of 66% in under two weeks. Farage collapse cou...
Even Rupert Murdoch outlet the Times is calling for the Labour government to place Thames Water under special administration: Few companies have a worse record of greed, myopia, incompetence and complacency than Thames Water, the privatised utility now drowning in £18 billion of debt and r...
Even shareholders at the Financial Times Stock Exchange (FTSE), which is made up of the largest 100 UK companies, are up in arms over CEO pay. The largest revolt came from two thirds of shareholders at aerospace company Melrose. They voted down a bonus for CEO Peter Dilnot. Nonetheless, th...
The right-to-buy social housing policy has cost the government £200bn since 1980, according to a new report from Common Wealth. But at the same time low income people gained housing and stopped having to pay rent to the government. Social rent does not even contribute to home ownership and...
River Action has begun a legal challenge against environmental secretary Steve Reed. Lawyers for the charity argue that Thames Water has met the conditions for Special Administration for years now and that Reed has failed in his legal obligation to publish his policy on the matter. Pressin...
People who are currently planning to vote for Reform opt for Jeremy Corbyn over Keir Starmer in almost every category. A better way to defeat Reform Merlin Strategy polling seen by Novara Media shows that 67% of voters for Nigel Farage’s party believe that Corbyn is “for working people”, c...