Andy Burnham’s Labour government has overridden Tower Hamlets council and thousands of local objections to force through a power-hungry data centre near Brick Lane, even as London suffers its worst drought in decades. Housing secretary Angela Rayner approved the development…
The company that made Grenfell Tower’s flammable cladding paid more compensation to shareholders than to the people who survived the fire and the families of those it killed. Arconic paid shareholders $74 million (£54.7 million) for economic losses suffered after…
Andy Burnham has pledged “100 percent” support for Ukraine as British-made drones strike deeper into Russia, hitting energy facilities and civilian targets while doing little to alter the course of the war. Asked in Wolverhampton about Moscow’s warning that Britain’s…
Britain’s right has spent years telling workers that danger comes from the neighbour with the wrong surname or the worker with the wrong passport. A new King’s College London and YouGov survey shows how deeply that poison has spread, and…
Parents in County Durham are watering down baby formula because they can’t afford to replace it. In one of the world’s richest capitalist countries, families are being forced to gamble with their babies’ health to make a tin of milk…
Westminster council is threatening the future of a weekly soup kitchen in Charing Cross, piling costs and enforcement action onto volunteers who provide hot meals, clothes and sleeping bags to homeless people. Friends of Essex & London Homeless (FOELH) has…
Gardeners responsible for maintaining some of London’s best-known parks are set to strike in a fight over pay. The workers, employed by subcontractor Idverde, voted by 95 per cent in favour of strike action on a 75 per cent turnout,…
Britain’s universities are being pushed towards another round of cuts as international student applications fall and a funding model built on fees and debt begins to crack. Home Office figures show that student visa applications fell by 11 percent in…
Nearly 100 children were wrongly classified as adults and placed in immigration detention under Shabana Mahmood’s “one in, one out” deal with France. Between 15 August 2025 and 1 May 2026, officials disputed the ages of 304 people detained through…
Water companies in England and Wales are preparing to take another £3.4bn from customers to cover infrastructure and environmental spending. Once again, the working class is being ordered to pay for the consequences of private ownership. Ofwat has provisionally approved…
