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DOZENS of Labour MPs have correctly attacked the plan of the Justice Minister and Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy to axe trial by jury...

THE Metropolitan Police arrested two pro-Palestine protesters for shouting ‘Globalise the Intifada’ at a peaceful demonstration outside the Ministry of Justice on Wednesday night,...

‘IF THEY ban the doctors strikes the British Medical Association must call on the other unions to come out with them. If doctors strikes...

Resident doctors began five days of strike action yesterday following the overwhelming rejection, 83% to 17%, of Labour health secretary Wes Streeting’s latest pathetic...

RESIDENT doctors in England have overwhelmingly voted that the government’s proposed offer on jobs is not good enough for them to call off proposed...

THE British Medical Association (BMA) is calling on the Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, to focus his time and attention on offering a deal that...

THE Starbucks workers’ union said on Thursday that hundreds of new union baristas are walking out of their jobs in 34 cities, joining the...

ECHOING the strident and alarmist calls to prepare for war against Russia from UK military chiefs, Al Carns, Labour’s UK Armed Forces Minister, warned...

THE British Medical Association (BMA) announced yesterday that it is consulting its members over the latest government offer to settle the resident doctors dispute,...

Last week, the Bank of England issued another of its increasingly strident warnings that a ‘sudden correction’ in the value of major technological companies...

OVER 200 people stood in a minute’s silence for those who died in Palestinian and UK jails at the beginning of an Irish solidarity...

GOVERNMENT plans to expand the use of ‘Orwellian’ live-facial recognition camera surveillance to every town and city in England and Wales will allow dangerous...

STARMER'S Labour government’s move to turn Britain into a police state has taken a dramatic step forward this week with its announcement of plans...

RUSSIAN leader Vladimir Putin said yesterday that ‘Europe is offering proposals for a “peace plan” for Ukraine that are unacceptable to Russia.’ He added that:...

Resident doctors in England have announced new strike dates, following the continuing refusal of the Labour government to make a credible offer on jobs...

JUSTICE SECRETARY David Lammy is proposing to massively restrict the ancient right to a jury trial by only guaranteeing it for defendants facing rape,...

General Practitioners (GP) contract changes that dictate how patients are able to contact their practice have negatively impacted patient care and practice staff, an...

DESPITE Labour’s election manifesto pledges and repeated promise of ‘No tax increases’ on income, National Insurance or VAT, Chancellor Rachel Reeves is planning a...

Teachers at 32 Further Education (FE) Colleges have voted to strike over pay and workloads, with the University and College Union (UCU) committee meeting...

YESTERDAY’S ‘bombshell U-turn’ over PM Keir Starmer’s and Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ budget plans not to increase income tax has exposed the civil war in...

RESIDENT doctors across England are staging a full walkout from 7am today until 6.59am tomorrow. The British Medical Association says years of pay erosion and...

THE LABOUR government announced 18,000 NHS staff sackings in England yesterday, with a deal with the Treasury signed off to hand the health service...

THOUSANDS of NHS staff redundancies in England are now to be forced through after a deal was reached with the Treasury to allow the...

The UK unemployment rate rose to 5% in the three months to September, with the Bank of England (BoE) predicting it will stay that...

‘EMERGENCY departments should be places of safety for those in crisis, but this report shows they have become places of prolonged and unnecessary suffering.’ Royal...

MAJOR splits have emerged in the Labour government Cabinet over PM Keir Starmer’s and Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s class-war plans to raise income tax rates...

THE British National Debt has almost tripled in the period between 2005 and 2025, outpacing all the other major capitalist states. Britain now has a...

EX-PRINCE Andrew’s public disgrace has rocked the British ruling class, with the King stripping his younger brother of his ‘prince’ title and evicting him...

BRITAIN must cut spending on welfare benefits or face a miserable cycle of repeated tax rises every year, JP Morgan, the world’s largest bank,...

IN WHAT was described as a ‘historic first’, a UK navy destroyer, HMS Duncan, was placed under the direct command of NATO and ordered...

AMID world stock markets crashing, and the head of the IMF revealing she has ‘sleepless nights’ over the dangerous risks of collapses in the...

THE JOINT annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank is taking place in Washington this week under conditions of...

Senior NHS doctors declared a state of national emergency in the NHS yesterday as waiting lists soared, with thousands of patients being treated in...

THE Bank of England on Wednesday warned of a growing risk of a ‘sudden correction’ in the world stock markets. The massive Artificial Intelligence...

ON Wednesday, Labour prime minister, and former human rights lawyer, Keir Starmer declared that the Labour government is preparing for a war on asylum...

THE Labour Mayor of Manchester, Andy Burnham, in an interview with The Daily Telegraph newspaper yesterday said that many Labour MPs have been privately...

MINISTERS are drawing up plans to give mayors significant new powers over hospitals and schools as part of a new wave of devolution that...

THE SEIU union in New England, US, reported that workers at Butler Hospital have officially ratified a new contract, ending the longest hospital strike...

THE RCN (Royal College of Nursing) is warning that cuts to Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) could put patient safety at risk and undermine the...

THE Bank of England’s crisis came out in the open at yesterday’s meeting as the Bank’s governor Andrew Bailey was opposed by two of...

Three weeks after Butler Hospital management issued what it called its ‘last, best and final’ contract proposal, the union representing striking workers has ‘overwhelmingly’...

BMA resident doctors’ committee co-chairs Dr Ross Nieuwoudt and Dr Melissa Ryan yesterday called for a ‘tangible and acceptable’ pay offer. Commenting on new talks...

THE British Medical Association yesterday rebutted right wing attacks on its ‘derogation’ system, whereby the NHS can ask for resident doctors, who are taking...

THE BMA (British Medical Association) confirmed yesterday that a mass picket of striking Resident Doctors will be held tomorrow morning from 8-11am outside St...

Testifying to MPs at the Treasury Committee yesterday, Andrew Bailey, governor of the Bank of England, issued a sharp rebuke to Labour chancellor Rachel...