Robert Reich

Labour’s first year in power has ended with humiliation over welfare reform. But has the focus on that issue drowned out some real achievements?

Coventry South MP, who lost whip last year, surprises some in Corbyn’s Independent Alliance with news of formal plans

Preston is to enter into a friendship agreement with the Palestinian city of Hebron

As ministers search for cuts, a new parliamentary report reveals the hundreds of billions of pounds that could be clawed back into the UK's flagging economy

A former senior KGB spy chief claims Trump was recruited in 1987 due to his role as a prominent US businessman

The government is publishing videos of raids of venues employing illegal workers as it prepares for the second reading of its Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill

Court case points to sizeable fees being racked up as firm seeks £3bn loan to try to avoid temporary nationalisation

Donald Trump’s administration started work to shrink USAid’s workforce and align its spending with the government’s priorities

How many Palestinian women and children have to be killed in the occupied West Bank before anyone in the US or UK gives a damn?

This is what should be on every front page in 150 point banner headlines. All I have is this Substack but I lay it beneath your feet and pray to a higher power that I'm wrong.

The UK has joined with the United States and a handful of other rich nations in rejecting the UN push

Since 1989, water companies have been the subject of over 1,100 criminal convictions, but governments are content for them to control the industry.

Peer who gave gifts to Keir Starmer is said to have blocked ban on potential Elon Musk donations to Reform UK

And how to resist it

Podcast Episode · The News Agents · 04/02/2025 · 28m

The number of staff earning over £100,000 at Newcastle University has almost tripled over over seven years as the institution signs off £30m in cuts

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Joseph Rowntree Foundation warns one in three children will still be in poverty in England by the end of the decade - even with high economic growth - unless there is targeted support

Joseph Rowntree Foundation calls for benefits changes amid pressure on Labour to scrap two-child benefit cap

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