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After the Tories decided not to bother to turn up to vote to "pause and fix" the mess of Universal Credit you would think the Sec of State, responsible for the policy implementation, would turn up for a debate on it...well you would be wrong. Today's debate was granted by John Bercow after he criticised the government's response to the Opposition day debate last week which Labour won by 299 to 0. Debbie Abrahams demanded to know why David Gauke,Secretary of...

Arm yourself. There is a war raging across our information systems. Whilst no bombs are being dropped, the impacts of this war will have far reaching consequences. At the same time Donald Trump was elected president of the United States of America, 2016 witnessed the rise of populist and extremist movements all over the globe. The success of many of these causes, groups and individuals came as an unexpected surprise, even a shock. Many asked ‘how could this happen?’ In...

Populist politicians are weaponizing trade to the determent of the global economy, a new book has claimed. As politicians on both sides of the Atlantic raise the stakes, trade is increasingly becoming a tool of coercion to achieve strategic influence. Although trade, wars and foreign policy have been interwoven throughout history, the belligerence of the language today means trade is becoming predominantly political and strategic, rather than economic. Politicians have resorted to economic nationalism, using the rhetoric of conflict to...

Over half of Brits say current costs would stop them from attending university. Over 50 per cent of people in the UK would now choose not to attend university if they were to start today due to the high level of tuition fees and associated living costs. The research by Newsflare reveals just how many of us would choose not to attend university if we faced the financial pressures placed on student’s starting university now. Of those surveyed, those aged...

London is full of wonderful, interesting and sometimes wacky museums. They hold some of the world's finest art and artefacts.  Even better is that most of them are free. Here's 10 of the Best Museums in London as chosen by The London Economic's Billy Ray. The Best Museums in London? We think so, but visit them all and decide for yourself! 10. National Maritime Museum By Sue Wallace at en.wikipedia This free to enter museum contains a trove of artefacts...

The SNP government’s failure to tackle delayed discharge has cost the NHS more than £100 million in the last year, according to Labour analysis confirmed by the independent experts at the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Spice). NHS Scotland estimates that it costs £214 per day to keep a patient in hospital who is medically cleared to return home. In the period of September 2016 to August 2017, the most recent figures available, 511,972 bed days were occupied by delayed discharge...

A Christian magistrate who tried to sue the NHS after he was sacked as a director for speaking out against gay adoption has lost his case. Richard Page, 71, was suspended by the NHS Trust Development Authority after he claimed it was better for a child to be brought up by both a man and a woman. He made the comments in his role as a magistrate when considering an application by a same-sex couple to adopt a child. Last...

This is nothing short of an attempted cover up, but it’s no wonder that Ministers fought tooth and nail to cover up these damning figures GMB, the union for public sector workers, has exposed a shock Treasury report which Chancellor Philip Hammond tried to hide showing public sector wages are now below those in the private sector. The union has accused the Treasury of ‘covering up’ the study – which reveals that in 2016 public sector workers were paid 0.6...

Thank you for that fantastic welcome and thank you for inviting me here today. I want to begin by saying that today’s “Socialists Together” conference is a great initiative, and when Gianni Pittella invited me to speak, I was very glad to accept. I want to thank everybody from all the participating organisations, from many different countries, for being here to take part and contribute to this critical debate about the future of socialist and progressive politics and the future...