Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT
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The Restart scheme: ‘parking and creaming’ again?
SOLOMON HUGHES reports on yet another Covid cash grab that was supposedly designed to help people back to work — but was far better at lining the pockets of the outsourcing giants
Washington’s lawless behaviour towards countries in the region it considers its ‘back yard’ should be condemned by all law-abiding people, says LUKE DANIELS
In part I of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY takes a look at the early days of organising government workers
Colombia’s success in controlling the drug trade should be recognised and its sovereignty respected, argues Dr GLORY SAAVEDRA
The shadow lord chancellor has recently made a name for himself as an rabid hater of immigration – but there are exceptions to every rule, says SOLOMON HUGHES
Plaid Cymru’s front-bench spokesman on health and social services MABON AP GWYNFOR, in a two-part series, analyses the Caerphilly by-election and the wider political scene in Wales ahead of the 2026 Senedd election
PRIVATE contractors are being overpaid on a £1.7 billion scheme for the unemployed, according to the National Audit Office (NAO), the government spending watchdog.
Some of the contractors getting too much cash for too little work include infamous privatisers like Serco and G4S.
The scheme, Restart, was designed to stop post-Covid unemployment from rising. This is another Covid contractor rip-off story. Despite this, the NAO report was entirely ignored by the newspapers.
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