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…
Nurses are collapsing during shifts as extreme heat turns hospitals and care homes into dangerous workplaces. The Royal College of Nursing has described conditions as “inhumane and impossible”, while the government continues to postpone the “bigger questions” of climate adaptation…
The government’s new limit on branded school uniform is a small retreat from an unfair system, but it won’t make uniforms affordable for many working-class families. From September, schools will be allowed to require a maximum of three items carrying…
The British state has assigned just 20 officials to climate adaptation inside the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. That’s 20 out of 6,613 staff — only 0.3 percent of the department responsible for protecting the environment and maintaining…
Hundreds of residents in nine blocks of flats in Tower Hamlets have been left without a reliable supply of running water for more than seven months. Taps have repeatedly run dry. Families have struggled to cook, clean, wash and flush…
Thames Water paid its finance chief Steve Buck a £1 million signing-on fee in July while the company was drowning in roughly £20 billion of debt and warning that it could run out of cash by the end of the…
Millions of adults and children in England face longer waits for mental health care as NHS trusts prepare another round of service closures and job cuts. Ministers talk about expanding access, but the workers, funding and services needed to provide…
An irreplaceable collection of 318 fossils has left Britain after publicly funded museums said they couldn’t afford it. The sale was legal. That’s precisely the problem. One of the most important collections of Jurassic fossils ever assembled in Britain has…
