Secret consultation documents finally released after the Morning Star’s two-year freedom of information battle show the Home Office misrepresented public opinion, claiming support for policies that most respondents actually strongly criticised as dangerous and unfair, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
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Energy policy needs powering up
MATT KERR laments that, in keeping with its predecessors, the government is unwilling to countenance public ownership and control of Britain’s energy, leaving promises of a ‘just transition’ with no mechanism to deliver
Our groundbreaking report reveals how private rail companies are bleeding millions from public coffers through exploitative leasing practices — but we have the solutions, writes Aslef Scottish organiser KEVIN LINDSAY
With Reform UK surging and Labour determined not to offer anything different from the status quo, a clear opportunity opens for the left, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
Reform’s rise speaks to a deep crisis in Establishment parties – but relies on appealing to social and economic grievances the left should make its own, argues NICK WRIGHT
This year’s Bristol Radical History Festival focused on the persistent threats of racism, xenophobia and, of course, our radical collective resistance to it across Ireland and Britain, reports LYNNE WALSH
A maverick’s self-inflicted snake bites could unlock breakthrough treatments – but they also reveal deeper tensions between noble scientific curiosity and cold corporate callousness, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
The FBU is demanding 52 weeks of full pay for women firefighters, highlighting the unique health risks they face — and the continuing need to recruit and retain more women if policies like this are still not in place, writes SEONA HART
ENERGY security has made a comeback, but sadly not the willingness to actually deliver it.
The concept is of course not exactly an earth-shattering idea, I remember shamelessly pilfering the NUM line on energy security arguing to keep pits open with pals at school in the early ’90s.
By then British Gas, BP and BritOil has all been flogged off for a song by Thatcher’s government, though even as she scrapped the British national Oil Corporation and she understood the need to hang on to a “Golden Share” in BritOil, until the miracle of the market saw oil prices plummet, at least.
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