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OLDER people should have a legal right to access all public services offline, Age UK said today.
The charity conducted research on the challenges posed by the shift to a “digital-first” approach in essential services such as healthcare and finance.
A survey of 1,000 people over 60 found that a third believe life is harder than it was five years ago because more services are online.
Roger McKenzie talks to general secretary of Unison CHRISTINA McANEA about the impact of the cost-of-living crisis on members, the local government funding emergency and the threat of Reform UK
Digital ID means the government could track anyone and then limit their speech, movements, finances — and it could get this all wrong, identifying the wrong people for the wrong reasons, as the numerous digital cockups so far demonstrate, warns DYLAN MURPHY
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR