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Gerry Murphy, Assistant General Secretary of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, addresses union members outside Belfast City Hall, Belfast, as an estimated 150,000 workers take part in walkouts over pay across Northern Ireland. The strike is set to have a major impact with schools closed, hospitals offering only Christmas Day-level services, public transport cancelled as well as limited gritting of the roads in zero-degree temperatures, January 18, 2024
Six Counties / 3 September 2026
3 September 2026
Green Party leader Zack Polanski (centre) with party candidates and supporters after making a speech at the Church of Saint John The Evangelist in Cardiff, ahead of the Senedd election, May 2, 2026
Editorial / 3 September 2026
3 September 2026
House of Commons Handout photo issued by the House of Commons of Prime Minister Andy Burnham making a statement to MPs in his first appearance in the House of Commons, London, since becoming PM, September 1, 2026
Editorial / 2 September 2026
2 September 2026
SOCIAL JUSTICE CALL: Brian Leishman
Scotland / 2 September 2026
2 September 2026
Family members wearing tributes to victims whilst attending a service of recognition, remembrance and reflection for members of the infected blood community, at St Paul's Cathedral, London, May 19, 2026
Healthcare / 2 September 2026
2 September 2026
Prime Minister Andy Burnham departs 10 Downing Street, London, to attend his first Prime Minister's Questions at the Houses of Parliament, September 2, 2026
Economy / 2 September 2026
2 September 2026

PM tells MPs he want welfare cuts and backs Nato demands for soaring military spending

Green Party leader Zack Polanski speaking during a press conference at Church House in central London, August 5, 2026
Politics / 2 September 2026
2 September 2026
A ballot box is emptied during the count for the Blackpool South by-election at Blackpool Sports Centre, Blackpool, May 2, 2024
Democracy / 2 September 2026
2 September 2026
Prime Minister Andy Burnham during a visit to the Grange Interlink Community Centre in Bradford, West Yorkshire August 20, 2026
Labour / 1 September 2026
1 September 2026
Former Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer outside 10 Downing Street, July 20, 2026
Labour / 1 September 2026
1 September 2026
Prime Minister Andy Burnham leaves 10 Downing Street, London, as he heads to the Palace of Westminster, where he will call for more public control over water, energy and transport in his first appearance in the House of Commons since becoming Prime Minister. Picture date: Tuesday September 1, 2026
Editorial / 1 September 2026
1 September 2026
Andy Burnham
Editorial / 1 September 2026
1 September 2026
Prime Minister Andy Burnham, accompanied by Mayor of London Sadiq Khan  (second left)  and Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden (left), speaks to members of staff during his visit to Sainsbury's supermarket in Nine Elms, London, August 26, 2026
Politics / 26 August 2026
26 August 2026

National Education Union welcomes move but tells PM to go further and refund careers advice for young people

A gas hob burning on a stove. Ofgem has confirmed an 80.06 percent rise in the energy price cap, sending the average household's yearly bill from GBP 1,971 to GBP 3,549 from October. Picture date: Friday August 26, 2022
Cost-of-Living Crisis / 26 August 2026
26 August 2026

TUC calls for tax increase on bank profits to pay for social tariff to cut household bills

Plaid Cymru leader Rhun ap Iorwerth with his newly elected Senedd members on the steps of the Senedd, following winning the most seats in the Welsh Parliament election, May 9, 2026
Wales / 26 August 2026
26 August 2026

Plaid Cymru marks 100 days in Welsh government

US President Donald Trump speaks during a back to school event in the Rose Garden of the White House, August 24, 2026
Diplomacy / 26 August 2026
26 August 2026
Housing Secretary Angela Rayner speaks to the media after meeting with emergency responders who fought the home-destroying Stourbridge fires at West Midlands Fire and Rescue Service HQ in Birmingham, August 17, 2026
Editorial / 25 August 2026
25 August 2026
An aerial view of housing in south west London, July 31, 2026
Housing Crisis / 25 August 2026
25 August 2026

Social Housing Action Campaign blasts PM’s decision to break commitment to allocate 100% of Affordable Homes Programme to social rents

Drought in the New Forest
Labour / 27 August 2026
27 August 2026

Andy Burnham could learn a few lessons from a previous Labour government in the pre-privatisation era on how to tackle water shortages, writes KEITH FLETT

Relatives of Palestinian Karim Shalaldeh, 17, cry over his body at a hospital in the West Bank city of Hebron, August 21, 2026
West Bank / 21 August 2026
21 August 2026

Labour's Emily Thornberry calls on PM to ban goods from Israel-held Palestinian territory

Chancellor of the Exchequer John Healey gives his first all staff address at HM Treasury in central London, July 21, 2026
Economy / 21 August 2026
21 August 2026
Climate activists from Greenpeace and Uplift during a demonstration outside the Scottish Court of Session, Edinburgh, on the first day of the Rosebank and Jackdaw judicial review hearing, November 12, 2024
Climate Crisis / 21 August 2026
21 August 2026
Prime Minister Andy Burnham speaks to staff at the met office in Exeter, to discuss the UK's ongoing response to extreme heat, wildfires and drought, August 14, 2026
Climate Crisis / 17 August 2026
17 August 2026

Burnham urged to stand up to the fossil fuel giants and reject plans to drill Britain’s largest untapped oil fields

Reform UK Treasury spokesman Robert Jenrick speaking on social care during a press conference at Millbank Tower, London, July 30, 2026
Politics / 16 August 2026
16 August 2026

‘Ultimately, all of Reform's policies benefit big business and attack workers and the poor,’ Diane Abbott MP tells the Star

Demonstrators from CND and Fairford Action during an emergency protest outside the main gate of RAF Fairford, in Gloucestershire, following an attack on Iran by a US B-1 bomber stationed there earlier this week, July 25, 2026
Iran War / 14 August 2026
14 August 2026

Peace activists and trade unionists to gather at RAF Fairford to protest against US bombers taking off from Britain to strike Iran

Money is stacked on top of an water bill
Cost-of-Living Crisis / 13 August 2026
13 August 2026
Prime Minister Andy Burnham speaks to the media after chairing an emergency Cobra committee on the UK's ongoing response to extreme heat, wildfires and drought. Nearly three quarters of England and the whole of Wales are in drought, after a record dry July and very dry start to August has combined with high temperatures to put pressure on water resources, August 12, 2026
Editorial / 13 August 2026
13 August 2026
Union members and climate activists set up a ‘cool station’ outside Highbury and Islington station to hand out heatwave safety advice to workers [Pic: Immo Klink]
Heatwave strikes / 11 August 2026
11 August 2026

More than 1,500 London bus drivers set for heatwave strikes this Friday

Prime Minister Andy Burnham delivers a speech during a visit to the Jewish Care, Maurice and Vivienne Wohl Campus care home in north London, on adult social care reform. Picture date: Wednesday July 29, 2026
Care and Support Alliance / 11 August 2026
11 August 2026
Then Defence Secretary John Healey and Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper during a visit to HMS Prince of Wales anchored of the coast of Naples, Italy, November 17, 2025
Science and Society / 12 August 2026
12 August 2026

The Defence Universities Alliance is a bit to co-opt higher education into the wider drive to war — we should resist as earlier generations of scientists did, argue say ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT of SCIENCE AND SOCIETY

STARMER’S CUTS MAN: Alan Milburn at a presentation of his interim Report into Young People and Work, at West Library Youth Employment Hub, north London, May 28 2026
Diane Abbott / 6 August 2026
6 August 2026

As a proportion of GDP the total welfare bill is lower than it was 15 years ago. The claim that it is spiralling out of control is mythmaking, argues DIANE ABBOTT

HOUSING
Labour leadership / 3 August 2026
3 August 2026

The new PM may offer more of the same, but early signs on his housing policies look promising, says GLYNN ROBBINS