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Prose by John S. Locke Justice was seen to be done today and a victory for working class people everywhere was seen to happen. Today was a victory for working class people against an establishment fully prepared to lie and damage the reputation of normal people to protect itself. A day when working class people beat establishment corruption and truth finally won. A very important day in history for a working class people, truth and justice in our country. Fought in...

Unwary British holidaymakers are falling foul of Spain’s one year time limit for injury claim compensation.  The country’s one year limit sits in stark contrast to other parts of Europe, such as France, where some claims can be filed up to 10 years after an accident. The latest figures provided by the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) show that over 60 British tourists are hospitalised abroad each week, with 20% of these occurring in Spain.  These figures also show that...

A two-year inquest into the Hillsborough disaster has 'totally vindicated' families of those killed in the incident, ruling that the 96 people were unlawfully killed. In what has been described by Labour MP Andy Burnham as the "greatest miscarriage of justice of our times", justice for supporters and families who suffered on that fateful day has finally been delivered. The inquest ruled that Hillsborough had no accurate way of assessing fan numbers in the pens and that the stadium had inherent design...

Labour's Heidi Alexander hit out at a smug albeit sheepish looking Jeremy Hunt regarding his "kamikaze approach" to the junior doctors' strike. Alexander accused Hunt of being solely to blame for the loss of morale in the NHS and the potential exodus of staff to the Southern Hemisphere.  

"When corporations sit above Government, we are in big, big trouble." You have probably already heard and read about TTIP, but maybe you aren't quite sure how it will effect you? In a nutshell, TTIP stands for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. TTIP is a proposed deal between the EU and the US aimed at making it easier for the world’s two biggest economies to trade, leading to a projected increase in income for both continents. TTIP sets to make trade...

I've been to many university debates and spoken in more than a few. I've heard one man compare gay marriage to Nazism, a 19-year-old claim he was a 'survivor' of abortion and an Israeli student joke about killing more Palestinians. Sometimes outrageous or offensive statements cause shock, more often delayed laughter but they never go unchallenged. The National Union of Students would rather not allow potentially controversial debates to take place. The 'no platform' policy once used to shut down...

King's College London has withdrawn a speaking invitation offered to Boris Johnson followed remarks about Barack Obama's heritage. The London Mayor hit out at Obama after the US President made a trip to the UK to campaign for the UK to remain in the EU. Johnson said "part-Kenyan" Obama might have an "ancestral dislike of the British Empire" which prompted him to back the Remain campaign, which will compete with Vote Leave in June. In his Sun column he suggested Obama purposefully removed...

UK retailer BHS is on the brink and could file for administration as early as Monday, according to sources close to the owners. Department store chain British Home Stores could join Woolworths on the scrapheap of high-street staples. The loss-making store was bought out by financiers, lawyers and accountants with no retail experience and came close to closure last month with a rescue deal from creditors keeping the company solvent. But time could have run out for BHS. Sources close...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor The Government has announced that it is willing to take up to a quarter of Tata’s UK steel assets and offer hundreds of millions of pounds to help finance their debts if a buyer can be found for the loss making plants. This part-nationalisation was unveiled after business secretary Sajid Javid said the Government would consider a “co-invest” in the British steel industry. Plans could mean the Government procuring a minority stake in various UK...