A global comparison of State Pension provision highlights the onus on individuals in the UK to build pension savings for their retirement, rather than leaving

Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Mi...

Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Mi...

Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Mi...

Businesses, charities and other groups sign letter calling for levies to be paid by the government

Facilities likely to employ 10,400 workers, compared with 40,000 in industry estimates, thinktank says

A pipe collapse at Fleetwood Wastewater Treatment Works led to the sewage spillage.

The latest Spire Healthcare deal showed that private equity interest in the private healthcare market has continued.

Exclusive: Prime minister wants to ‘bring back hope’ by tackling cost of living as MPs call for electoral reform

England’s privatised water companies are leaders of predatory practices. In 1989, the industry was privatised for £7.6bn and had no debts. It joined Chile and a few US states&...

Campaigners say proposal for £10bn rescue deal in bid to avoid nationalisation is a ‘cosy stitch-up’

A growing campaign to tax offshore wealth is forcing wealthy Chinese people to rethink their trust structures and investment holdings, lawyers and advisors say, as Beijing sharpens its focus on capita...

Exclusive: Grid operator Neso can now respond with rolling blackouts as last resort without need for government powers

This ranking of the poverty rates of children in OECD countries shows that Costa Rica has the highest child poverty rate, while Finland has the lowest.

Far right organisation Knights Templar International, whose frontman Jim Dowson has a long history of involvement with extremist groups, is now supporting Scotland’s new wave of night patrols.

Washington has given diverging accounts of where the earthquake-shattered country’s funds are going

Andy Burnham will announce plans for new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea when he becomes prime minister on Monday, the BBC has been told. The announcement will form part of a flurry of policy m...

The space for populist green politics is only getting bigger – and if the PM-in-waiting doesn’t occupy it, Zack Polanski certainly will, writes Ash Sarkar.

Thursday—July 16—marks the launch of Stage 2 of the January 6 coup plot. Its aim is the end of our democracy, and it’s been in the works for 5 years. The march toward a possible civil war begins now.

No one is ever born poor. They are condemned to poverty by societal policies which prevent millions from realising their full physical, mental, and intellectual capacities potentialities.

Annual FCA data shows abnormal trades hitting new highs amid deal frenzy for UK companies

A new report lays out decades of sexual violence, including rape by dogs and other means, of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel.

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A new study finds that hundreds of lives have been saved since school-age girls were offered the HPV jab in 2008.

Greenpeace finds cocktail of pesticides including seven banned in EU may have been used on seven vegetables and soft fruit categories