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A general view of the Houses of Parliament in London
Workers' Rights / 19 December 2025
Corporate abuses run rampant amid health and safety law's collapse
19 December 2025

Report shows enforcement hits new lows under Labour

Cancer care nurse Preya Assi, 36, on the picket line outside University College Hospital, London, May 1, 2023
Workers' Rights / 19 December 2025
Nurses being left behind on pay progression, costing lives, money and the professions' future, union warns
19 December 2025
A ambulance driving in London, September 25, 2025
NHS / 19 December 2025
Two in three ambulance workers fear attacks during festive period, survey finds
19 December 2025
A barrister carries a wig into the Royal Courts of Justice, London, January 2020
Scotland / 19 December 2025
Boost justice spending by £400m or face ‘unacceptable cuts,’ warn MSPs
19 December 2025
Poverty / 20 December 2025
Most food workers fear they will run out of money this Christmas, BFAWU survey finds
20 December 2025
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage arrives at the Reform UK South East conference, at Sandown Park Racecourse in Esher, Surrey, January 10, 2025
Far Right / 19 December 2025
Reform slammed as further attacks on BAME politicians revealed
19 December 2025
Vue cinema staff strike in Glasgow over working conditions, December 19, 2025
Workers' Rights / 19 December 2025
Glasgow cinema workers stage midnight strike
19 December 2025
PSC Coke
Palestine Solidarity / 19 December 2025
Coca-Cola's Christmas truck tailed by campaigners in central London, urging boycott
19 December 2025
A person wearing a University and College Union (UCU) armban
Workers' Rights / 19 December 2025
Major concessions to Cardiff University redundancy plans welcomed by UCU
19 December 2025
A branch of WH Smith in central London, January 16, 2014
Business / 19 December 2025
WH Smith bids to recover overpaid bonuses as accounting issues probed
19 December 2025
Members of the Unite union who work for housing and homeless charity Shelter on the picket line outside their offices in Old Street, London, December 5, 2022
Workers' Rights / 19 December 2025
Unite and Shelter agree to new deal, averting Christmas strikes
19 December 2025
Your Party MP Zarah Sultana addresses the Village Hotel picket, December 19, 2025
Workers' Rights / 19 December 2025
Sultana joins striking workers outside Village Hotel in Govan
19 December 2025
Elena Whitham (right) with then First Minister Nicola Sturgeon at the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh, November 3, 2022
Scotland / 19 December 2025
Former drugs minister Elena Whitham stood down due to ‘credible’ threats
19 December 2025
House of Commons Handout photo issued by the House of Commons of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaking during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons, London. Picture date: Wednesday December 17, 2025
Workers' Rights / 18 December 2025
Racism in the workplace on the rise, finds new poll
18 December 2025
AI Luke Jones / Creative Commons
Workers' Rights / 18 December 2025
Actors vote for industrial action over AI scanning
18 December 2025
A dejected face worker sits in a Stillingfleet Colliery, York, locker room for the last time
Society / 18 December 2025
Class and history still define social mobility, report confirms
18 December 2025
NHS Crisis / 18 December 2025
Hospitals ‘nowhere near out of the woods’ as flu cases remain at record levels, health officials warn
18 December 2025
The ExxonMobil's ethylene plant at Mossmorran in Fife, following the announcement that the global energy giant will close the manufacturing plant. Picture date: Tuesday November 25, 2025
Workers' Rights / 18 December 2025
Mossmorran workers need government action not ‘soundbites,’ say Unite
18 December 2025
People take part in a demonstration outside the head office of Ultra Precision Control Systems in Cheltenham, part of a protest by pro-Palestine campaigners at sites across the country supplying F-35 fighter jet parts used by Israel to bombard the Gaza Strip, calling on the government to impose a full arms embargo on Israel. Picture date: Wednesday October 8, 2025
Policing / 18 December 2025
Jewish Voice for Liberation warn targeting protesters opposing Israel is not protecting Jews
18 December 2025
FW Pomeroy's Statue of Justice stands atop the Central Criminal Court building, Old Bailey, London
Law / 18 December 2025
Labour MPs threaten rebellion to defend juries
18 December 2025
Unite flags BA strike 2010
Workers' Rights / 18 December 2025
British Airways cleaners at Heathrow to stage Christmas strike over pay
18 December 2025
The Scottish Parliament building at Holyrood in Edinburgh
Environment / 18 December 2025
Scottish government face calls for data centre moratorium
18 December 2025
The Bank of England in the City of London
Economy / 18 December 2025
Unions urge Bank of England cut interest rates further
18 December 2025
School children in a classroom
Education / 18 December 2025
Unions welcome plan to tackle violence against women
18 December 2025
A Green Party supporter holding a placard
Scotland / 18 December 2025
Greens call for asylum housing and support powers for Holyrood
18 December 2025
Paul Nowak, general secretary of the TUC speaking at the TUC congress at the ACC Liverpool, September 11, 2023
Employment Rights Bill / 18 December 2025
Labour told to ‘finish job’ on workers rights
18 December 2025
David Lammy's office
Prison System / 17 December 2025
‘Show some humanity before it is too late,’ Lammy told as Palestine Action hunger striker rushed to hospital
17 December 2025

Activists graffiti the 8 hunger strikers' demands across the Deputy PM's north London office 

Economy / 17 December 2025
Bank of England must cut rates as inflation eases, TUC urges
17 December 2025
old man
Workers' Rights / 17 December 2025
Clock ticking on social care workers' visas
17 December 2025
Houses under construction on a housing development in Basingstoke
Housing Crisis / 17 December 2025
Social housebuilding plunges to lowest levels in decades
17 December 2025
Hundreds of shipping containers at the Grangemouth Terminal near Falkirk, April 7, 2025
Industry / 17 December 2025
Government commits £120m to secure Grangemouth chemicals plant
17 December 2025
Andrea Egan
Trade Unions / 17 December 2025
Unison elects Andrea Egan as new general secretary
17 December 2025
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage speaks during the party's annual conference at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, September 5, 2025
Politics / 17 December 2025
Fresh probe into Farage overspend charges
17 December 2025
General view of a Welsh flag before the Six Nations match at
Wales / 17 December 2025
Welsh councils need multi-year funding deals to reverse austerity, Unison Cymru report says
17 December 2025
People take part in a
Childcare / 17 December 2025
Bill to curb care profiteering fails to define it, warns committee
17 December 2025
cops
Policing / 17 December 2025
Two police officers launch High Court proceedings to overturn ban on police unionisation
17 December 2025
Drugs Colin Davis / Creative Commons
Scotland / 17 December 2025
Suspected drug deaths up a fifth
17 December 2025
An EU flag is flown outside the Palace of Westminster following the UK-EU Summit at Lancaster House, in central London, May 19, 2025
Education / 17 December 2025
Rejoining Erasmus will benefit Britain's workers and economy, says TUC
17 December 2025
New Green Party member Jamie Driscoll, the former North of Tyne Mayor for Labour, during a press conference at Newcastle Bangladeshi Association, December 17, 2025
Politics / 17 December 2025
Former Labour mayor Driscoll joins Green Party
17 December 2025
The Houses of Parliament London
Workers' Rights / 16 December 2025
Employment Rights Bill set to become law after Lords end stand-off
16 December 2025
Dentistry Caroline LM / Creative Commons
Healthcare / 16 December 2025
Dentistry reforms are not the ‘end of the road,’ warn experts
16 December 2025
Junior doctors and members of the British Medical Association (BMA) outside St Thomas' Hospital, London, January 3, 2024
Workers' Rights / 16 December 2025
‘Government has given green light to harass striking doctors,’ campaigners warn
16 December 2025
Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Secretary David Lammy leaves following a Cabinet meeting in Downing Street, London. Picture date: Tuesday December 2, 2025
Justice / 16 December 2025
More than 50 MPs and peers call on Lammy to meet lawyers of imprisoned Palestine hunger strikers
16 December 2025
Campaigners from Surfers Against Sewage gather in London to release their annual Water Quality Report, and call for transformational reform of the water industry, April 15, 2025
Environment / 16 December 2025
Public demand water firms ensure safe sewage sludge on farmland
16 December 2025
Children in a classroom
Education / 17 December 2025
Children in overcrowded and damp homes miss three weeks more school
17 December 2025
General view of the Job Centre Plus on Benalder St in Glasgow
Economy / 16 December 2025
Young people hardest hit as unemployment rises to 5.1%
16 December 2025
The logo of water company Wessex Water seen through a glass of water
Privatisation / 16 December 2025
Wessex Water to pay £11m towards wastewater upgrades after Ofwat investigation
16 December 2025
President Donald Trump speaks during a Mexican Border Defense Medal presentation in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Dec. 15, 2025
Media / 16 December 2025
Trump sues BBC for £7.5 billion over Panorama edits
16 December 2025
Court artist sketch by Elizabeth Cook of Paul Doyle, 53, appearing at Liverpool Magistrates' Court, May 30, 2025
Football / 16 December 2025
Liverpool FC parade maniac jailed for 21 years
16 December 2025
A view of the Senedd, the Welsh parliament building in Cardiff
Education / 16 December 2025
Headteachers deliver Xmas cards to Senedd calling for schools funding
16 December 2025
Members of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) who work at STV take part in a picket outside their studios in Glasgow, after rejecting the company's latest pay offer, May 1, 2024
Workers' Rights / 16 December 2025
Revised plans to cut STV services still ‘bad for journalism,’ union leaders warn
16 December 2025
Workers' Rights / 17 December 2025
Overseas social care and NHS workers to lobby MPs on visa rules
17 December 2025
Green Party leader Zack Polanski (left)attends a stunt taking aim at Rachel Reeves' wealth tax, which features a campaigner dressed in a papier mache head of the Chancellor, at Parliament Square in London, November 25, 2025
Politics / 16 December 2025
Greens on course to ‘bury’ Labour at next year’s local elections, Polanski says after five councillors join his party
16 December 2025
Equity members, December 8, 2025. Photo: Equity
Artificial Intelligence / 15 December 2025
Equity urges members to vote to protect them from AI abuses
15 December 2025
NHS resident doctors protesting outside Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle, during a five-day strike after talks with the Government collapsed over pay, July 25, 2025
Britain / 15 December 2025
‘Too little, too late’
15 December 2025

Resident doctors overwhelmingly reject government’s latest offer on jobs 

Former prime Minister Rishi Sunak, September 15, 2024
Covid-19 / 15 December 2025
Sunak grilled over 2020 decisions at Covid inquiry
15 December 2025
Protesters outside the The Royal Courts Of Justice in London, for the hearing in appeal of an asylum seeker boat pilot detained over Channel crossing deaths, December 4, 2024
Britain / 15 December 2025
Campaigners demand release of asylum-seeker at shipwreck vigil
15 December 2025
Gig economy / 15 December 2025
Addison Lee to pay an estimated £200,000 compensation to drivers after faking email in gig economy lawsuit
15 December 2025
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage speaking at the MacDonald Inchyra Hotel & Spa in Falkirk, following protests outside a migrant hotel in the area, December 6, 2025
Reform UK / 15 December 2025
Civil service unions warn Reform plans to cut 68,500 jobs would lead to ‘social failure’
15 December 2025
A general view of the headquarters of the Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, in London, March 18, 2025
Britain / 15 December 2025
New MI6 chief accused of warmongering
15 December 2025
The wreckage of a Chinook Helicopter which crashed on the Mull of Kintyre in 1994 killing all 29 on board
Scotland / 15 December 2025
Chinook families ‘expect answers’ from ministerial meeting
15 December 2025
Healthcare / 15 December 2025
Doncaster mental health hospital strikes over back pay
15 December 2025
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage speaking during a press conference
Britain / 15 December 2025
Ignore Reform’s recent advances 'at our peril,' Communist Party warns
15 December 2025
The Court of Session, Edinburgh
Scotland / 15 December 2025
Sex offences review makes almost 200 recommendations for change
15 December 2025
King Charles III and Queen Camilla during a visit to the Sandringham Flower Show at Sandringham House in Norfolk, July 23, 2025
Britain / 15 December 2025
Sandringham fuel tanker drivers to strike over Christmas
15 December 2025
Children in a classroom
Education / 16 December 2025
More than half of teachers work at a school where a child is homeless
16 December 2025
Aberdeen stands 'united against the far-right’s hatred, racism and fascism'
Scotland / 14 December 2025
Aberdeen 'united against the far-right’s hatred, racism and fascism'
14 December 2025
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood arriving for a Cabinet meeting in Downing Street, London, December 2, 2025
Policing / 14 December 2025
Mahmood says victims of sexual offences face policing 'postcode lottery'
14 December 2025
Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care Neil Gray makes his way to First Minister's Questions at the Scottish Parliament in Holyrood, Edinburgh, October 2, 2025
Scotland / 14 December 2025
No more cash for resident doctors, warns Gray
14 December 2025
A detail of a Police officer
Spycops / 14 December 2025
Spy cops monitored anti-police corruption group for a decade, inquiry hears
14 December 2025
Tommy Robinson (centre), whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, speaking during a Christmas carol service in Whitehall, London organised by his Unite the Kingdom movement, December 13, 2025
Britain / 14 December 2025
Chaplain who heckled Tommy Robinson says being called a bigot 'ironic'
14 December 2025
STUC general secretary Roz Foyer addresses the 128th Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) Annual Congress at Caird Hall, Dundee, April 29, 2025
Scotland / 14 December 2025
Billions lining pockets of Scotland's outsourcing profiteers, says STUC
14 December 2025
A general view of staff on a NHS hospital ward
Scotland / 15 December 2025
SNP 'let NHS crumble', Scottish Labour claims
15 December 2025
Ian Murray arrives in Downing Street, London, for a Cabinet meeting, May 20, 2025
Scotland / 15 December 2025
Murray still baffled by sacking
15 December 2025
Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham attending a Labour for a New Democracy fringe event at the Labour Party Conference at the ACC Liverpool, September 28, 2025
Politics / 14 December 2025
Public thinks Andy Burnham would make better PM than Starmer or Farage, polling shows
14 December 2025
Health Secretary Wes Streeting during a phone-in on LBC's Nick Ferrari at Breakfast show, at Global Radio Studios in London, December 12, 2025
Healthcare / 14 December 2025
Streeting blasted for ‘cruel and calculated’ NHS collapse scaremongering as doctor strike looms
14 December 2025
A sign for the Department for Work and Pensions, situated on Whitehall in Westminster, central London
Britain / 14 December 2025
DWP needs a cultural overhaul after carer's allowance scandal, government adviser warns
14 December 2025
People take part in a protest in Parliament Square, London, to call for de-proscription of Palestine Action after a ban against the organisation was announced after two Voyager aircraft were damaged at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, July 12, 2025
Britain / 12 December 2025
Palestine Action activists denied bail and accused of £15 million criminal damage at RAF Brize Norton
12 December 2025
Tommy Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon arrives at Westminster Magistrates' Court, London, November 4, 2025
Britain / 12 December 2025
Anti-racists to oppose Tommy Robinson's 'Put The Christ Back Into Christmas' event
12 December 2025
Junior doctors and members of the British Medical Association (BMA) outside Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle, January 3, 2024
Healthcare / 12 December 2025
Streeting warned ‘irresponsible’ public tirades won’t avert plans for doctor strikes
12 December 2025
A homeless man in a tent in the centre of Liverpool
Housing / 12 December 2025
Homelessness up 8% in the last year
12 December 2025
Campaigners in support and in opposition of the assisted dying Bill in Parliament Square, central London, ahead of a debate on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill in the House of Commons, June 20, 2025
Assisted Dying Bill / 12 December 2025
Doctors could green-light assisted dying without access to mental incapacity records, expert peer warns
12 December 2025
Houses in Thamesmead, south east London
Housing / 12 December 2025
Over one in ten trapped in cold, damp homes, research finds
12 December 2025
A view of bank notes
Britain / 12 December 2025
Welfare cuts are an 'entirely false economy,' warns study
12 December 2025