BBC About a quarter of the working age population – those aged 16 to 64 – do not currently have a job. Caring responsibilities and ill health are the most common reasons given by those who would like one. With a four-year mandate and a towering majority, Labour might have been expected to have invested...
Britain’s Communists have condemned Keir Starmer’s Labour government as “an anti-working class, warmongering cabal hell-bent on militarising our economy and society”. Liz Payne told the Party’s Political Committee on Tuesday evening (24 June 2025) that hundreds of billions of pounds were now being earmarked for warfare, while millions of poor families, welfare claimants and...
This is just a second match on grass for Alcaraz after the physical and emotional toll of the Roland Garros final. He started strongly against Munar but grew unusually frustrated as the match went on, shouting at his team and disputing a time violation with the umpire midway through the second set. World number 59...
“History will record British military support for Israel as complicity with genocide”, Communist Party International Secretary Kevan Nelson declared at yesterday’s Executive Committee (10 May 2025). Recent reports indicate that Britain has sent 14 shipments of bombs, grenades, torpedoes, mines and F-34 fighter jet parts to Israel since October 2023, while the RAF has...
Within moments of the briefing with the business secretary beginning, Jonathan Reynolds described it to us as a case study in the government’s claim to be going further and faster in doing what it can to improve living standards. Little wonder ministers want to lean into this deal with Delhi, grappling as they are with...
In a move that has sparked widespread uproar, work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall has announced a series of Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) welfare cuts including to PIP and Universal Credit, aimed at reducing government spending that will impact millions of low-income families, and chronically ill and disabled people, who are currently bracing...
On the back of years of Tory austerity, the education sector is preparing for the “worst financial situation for a generation” after chancellor Rachel Reeves’ Spring Statement on 26 March. Headteachers have already warned that schools face “death by a thousand cuts” partly because the proposed pay increase for teachers is unfunded and the Labour...