19+ hour, 53+ min ago   (1322+ words) UNIONS will agree on the best economic roadmap for Britain at TUC Congress on Monday, piling pressure on Prime Minister Andy Burnham to introduce wealth taxes and reject “baseless myths” over an upcoming zero-hour contracts ban. Speaking to the Morning…...

19+ hour, 21+ min ago   (319+ words) ACTIVISTS disrupted the opening of the Bayeux Tapestry to the public, demanding that the British Museum sever its ties with oil giant BP. Members of Energy Embargo for Palestine occupied the museum’s Great Hall on Saturday, urging management to consult…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (419+ words) CAMDEN Council leader Sagal Abdi-Wali has been chosen as the Labour candidate for the Holborn and St Pancras by-election. She will seek to defend the seat abandoned by former premier Sir Keir Starmer, in spite of his promises to serve…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (404+ words) Hundreds of men wearing balaclavas and dressed in black tried to block migrants from being transported for processing until 3am when the police removed them. Despite witnesses saying two police car windscreens were smashed, no arrests were made during the racist…...

6+ day, 21+ hour ago   (391+ words) FIRST Minister John Swinney has warned that if a fire which destroyed a Glasgow tenement was started deliberately, the perpetrators will face “all the force of the law.” Far-right keyboard warriors rushed online to gloat when Sunday’s blaze broke out…...

1+ week, 20+ hour ago   (142+ words) UNIONS have raised safety concerns after Londoners began hiring driverless taxis for the first time today. Rides in Wayve’s 15 licensed autonomous vehicles were added to the Uber app. The cars will still come with a licensed human driver sitting in…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (667+ words) ANDY BURNHAM pledged to “bring back hope” today in his first Commons address since becoming Prime Minister. Demarcating his approach from the gloom-laden approach of his predecessor, Mr Burnham was relentlessly upbeat in a message to MPs that was nevertheless…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (386+ words) BRITAIN’S terror laws are “not fit for purpose,” campaigners warned yesterday after official data found nearly half of all terror arrests since 9/11 have been in the past year. Of the 6,539 terrorism arrests in Britain since the 2001 attacks on the twin…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (383+ words) ANDY BURNHAM’S decision to shelve public ownership plans for Thames Water is a “mockery of households,” campaigners said today. The Prime Minister has paused plans to use special administration regime (SAR) powers on the debt-ridden utility company after government officials…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1641+ words) Britain funds the policing of black culture 16 times better than the culture itself. The Diamond Jubilee is the moment to end that, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE Growing instability in the US economy and financial markets could have serious consequences worldwide because…...