Tories Follow

One thing’s certain about 2016. The struggle within the Labour Party will continue, but divisions among the Tories will become high profile.

Hundreds of thousands of pounds in allowances were paid during 2015 to peers who went through the year without ever contributing in the House of Lords.

I was responding to the floods in Greater Manchester on Boxing Day, pumping out water and

Junior doctors’ strikes against new contracts are back on, the British Medical Association (BMA) announced today, Monday.

Heavy rain on Boxing Day led to flooding across large parts of northern England. Everywhere Tory cuts and privatisation have increased the devastation–and its impact on the poorest.

Firefighters and their FBU union are sounding the alarm about the impact of successive cuts to fire stations, engines and jobs. Cuts are already increasing the dangers, writes Nick Clark

The government is set to end lifetime tenancies for council tenants, in an amendment to the Housing and Planning Bill.

Some 1,700 people joined a Scottish TUC (STUC)rally against austerity and the Tories’ Trade Union Bill in Glasgow on Thursday of last week.

At the same time as bombing Syria, the government is making it harder for Syrians to escape.

War is good for business. Defence companies have rushed to assure investors that they stand to gain from the escalating conflicts in the Middle East.

The ruling class loves a war. They pretend that we all have a “national interest” against an outside enemy and distract us from the attacks they are raining down on us.

Tory defence secretary Michael Fallon has warned that the war in Syria was “not going to be short or simple”.