Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above. In the Guardian today: Labour should halt public contracts with the US tech company Palantir, opposition politicians have said, amid growing con…

Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above. In the Guardian today: Labour should halt public contracts with the US tech company Palantir, opposition politicians have said, amid growing con…

Digital sovereignty isn’t optional anymore. We sold our water to foreign billionaires. Now we’re handing them our health data

This is how to secure sustained economic growth

This is how to secure sustained economic growth

Successive governments clobber households and small businesses by hiking interest rates to manage inflation, but don’t inconvenience corporations.

Governments appease corporations and the super-rich by following the old policies which benefit a few.

Decision on neighbourhood health centres expected in autumn but approach divides policy experts

British politics is awash with money from super rich donors. In 2023, two-thirds of all private donations came from just 19 people. These so-called ‘mega donors’ enjoy privileged access to political p...

New anti-immigrant rules are bad policy & will only validate the far-right

CHPI thinktank found five firms made an ‘eye-watering’ £169m in 2023-24, as calls for profit cap grow

Exclusive: government fears further electoral losses from unpopular policy as well as from planned £5bn of benefits cuts

The broadcaster behaves like Starmer’s government: suppress the left, cave to your critics, and undermine your own survival, writes Guardian columnist George Monbiot

We've compared the UK's pension system to the rest of Europe’s countries to see which one offers the most to retirees. Check it out here.

The obscene profits of the energy industry show the sector is broken

Focusing on Trump's tariffs risks missing the bigger picture. The consequences of upending the global economic order on this scale will not be limited to trade

'The government needs to recalibrate policies'

Chancellor is eyeing welfare system for potential cuts but pensions secretary says more support for jobseekers is key

This is UNBELIEVABLE. Keir Starmer has just handed Donald Trump a letter from King Charles, inviting him for a second state visit to the UK. It’s totally unprecedented, and I was so outraged when I he...

The Resolution Foundation estimates without urgent action the number of kids falling below the poverty line will hit a record high of 4.6million by the end of the decade

Thanks to abstention by far-right MPs, the 'Zucman tax' was adopted by the Assemblée Nationale, on Thursday. It is unlikely to be approved by the Sénat. The Finance Ministry has been preparing a much ...