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openDemocracy journalist Sunny Hundal has ridiculed Tory MP and Conservative deputy chair James Cleverly for the Conservative Party's apparently differing standards ...

The DWP just revealed the eye-watering millions it paid out to private companies

On Thursday 26 July, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) revealed the amount it paid out in June to ...

Campaigner's celebrating Sara's court victory

A mother threatened with homelessness by a Labour council just won a court battle in her fight to stay in London

On 26 July, Sara Abdalla - a single mother from the east London borough of Newham - won a court ...

The government’s new benefits savings scheme is peak hypocrisy

The government is preparing to roll out a scheme for people on Universal Credit to "save" money. But what it ...

Virgina Kruta with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

A right-wing journalist hears a socialist speak and accidentally exposes the absurdity of opposing her platform

by Peter Bolton

After covering a rally headlined by openly socialist Democratic Party politician Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a right-wing journalist made comments that accidentally exposed ...

Split screen of Owen Jones and Kate Hoey

Owen Jones calls out a Labour MP accused of ‘propping up’ the government

Guardian columnist Owen Jones has called out Labour MP Kate Hoey for tweeting in defence of the Tories: https://twitter.com/OwenJones84/status/1022026574676287489 But it's ...

A boarded up store in Chrisp Street Market

Campaigners and local residents are furious with a Labour council for ‘allowing social and ethnic cleansing’

18 October 2019

On 24 July, Tower Hamlets Council in east London approved a controversial redevelopment plan, to the fury of campaigners and ...

The BBC was too late deleting a tweet that spoke volumes about its climate change reporting

by Fréa Lockley

On 24 July, Prof Stephen Belcher appeared on BBC Newsnight. As the Met Office's chief scientist, he gave an expert opinion about ...

Here are the cuts Theresa May tried to bury before f***ing off for the summer

by Emily Apple

Parliament has closed for the summer. But before grabbing their buckets and spades and heading to the beach, the government ...

Theresa May on a beach. She's saying "A week is a long time in politics. Impressive that we got so little done in the past 52"

Tory government ready for another well-earned six-week holiday

by John Shafthauer

The Tories did a lot in the last year. Which isn’t to say they achieved a lot. They were out ...

Tory MEP David Bannerman and EU supporters in London

A Conservative politician genuinely just called for ‘extreme EU supporters’ to be tried for treason

by Stefan Schmid

A Conservative MEP is facing a massive backlash after calling for "those undermining the UK through extreme EU loyalty" to ...

Jacob Rees-Mogg tried to blame socialism for the housing crisis, and people aren’t having it

On 23 July, Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg launched the Institute for Economic Affairs' (IEA) Richard Koch Breakthrough Prize. He then ...

The DWP sneaked out a damning admission just before parliament closed for the summer

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) released some damning information about benefit sanctions; conveniently just as parliament was closing ...

The DWP and the UK government were just shamed on a global scale