The Resolution Foundation has marked it’s 20-year anniversary with a new report covering how Britain has changed since its inception. One graph which stands out shows the UK is experiencing “an unprecedented pay depression”: The Great Pay Depression The 2005 to 2025 period has seen both La...
Oxford and Cambridge have lost their grip on the UK’s top three universities. For the first time in 32 years, neither appears at the top of the Sunday Times Good University Guide. The 2026 edition, released on Sunday, puts the London School of Economics (LSE) in first place. St Andrews tak...
The Israeli government has made a sinister change to its propaganda attacking the humanitarian ‘Global Sumud Flotilla’ of fifty-plus boats heading to Gaza with crucial supplies – almost certainly as a prelude to attacking it. While the colonisers’ early smears against the convoy were dismi...
The Canary Islands have always stood apart, not just geographically, but in spirit. The Spanish archipelago attracts millions each year with its mix of wild landscapes and steady warmth. In recent years, more Americans have been showing up. They’re not flying across the Atlantic just for a...
Striking workers in northwest England faced a “shocking and horrifying” event this week when a vehicle ploughed into them in an “unprovoked attack”. Strike action at Sellafield The nuclear waste management site in Sellafield, Cumbria, is Britain’s “largest and most strategically significan...
Keir Starmer’s Labour government is celebrating a £150bn investment deal with the US: Labour is backing British brilliance. Major US investment flowing into clean energy, life sciences, and advanced manufacturing means more good, high quality jobs for people across the country. — The Labou...
On the morning of Friday 19 September, an Eritrean man became the second migrant to be deported to France under the UK government’s new ‘One In One Out’ (OIOO) scheme. His Air France flight left Heathrow for Paris at 6:15am, according to the Home Office. The deportee was ...
A jury found two young people who spray-painted two private jets at Stansted Airport in June 2024 guilty of criminal damage at Chelmsford Crown Court on Thursday 18 September. They took action with Just Stop Oil to demand the UK government negotiate a treaty to phase out fossil fuels by 20...
Protesters from the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) and Lakenheath Alliance for Peace will descend on RAF Lakenheath this Saturday 20 September, ending a week of nationwide actions in opposition to Donald Trump’s state visit to Britain. They will be there to say unequivocally that n...
As part of a week of resistance to Trump and Trumpism, tens of thousands turned out in London on Wednesday 17 September to say that Trump is not welcome in the UK. This turnout joined protests across the country, including in Bristol, Cardiff, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, and more, to sho...
