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Published in:Home: NewsRevealed: UK private tenants hit by record annual rent hikesHousing campaigners warn that renters could be pushed into poverty and homelessness without evictions freeze
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Published in:Freedom of Information: NewsTruss and Sunak’s teams had worst transparency records in WhitehallRevealed: Tory leadership hopefuls both led teams with an 'awful' record for Freedom of Information
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Published in:Home: AnalysisWhat nationalising energy companies would cost – and how to do itUK could bring National Grid and retailers in-house and build public renewable energy, says ex-Labour policy chief
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Published in:Home: OpinionDroughts and wildfires prove we need to end private land ownershipWe can’t accept an annual lurch from droughts to floods – we must take our land back from the aristocracy
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Published in:Home: NewsEnergy workers to stage more protests as companies raise bills but not payEmployees at Drax, Grangemouth and other energy sites will walk out every fortnight as firms rake in huge profits
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Published in:50.50: FeatureParents and teachers’ fears for trans kids after Braverman's ‘evil’ speechSchools urged to ignore attorney general’s ‘dangerous’ comments, with trans kids still protected by equality law
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Published in: 50.50: AnalysisReligious backlash threatens Somaliland’s progressive rape lawReligious leaders have gutted a progressive sexual offences law, creating a new version that permits child marriage
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Published in: Home: NewsTory Lord cutting civil service jobs ‘used official trip to tout for private work’Exclusive: Francis Maude allegedly touted his consultancy firm during ‘fact-finding’ mission
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Published in: Home: FeatureBack to black: What Afghanistan’s new focus on coal tells usTaliban-ruled Afghanistan’s new golden age of coal reveals a country that is going back to old-fashioned ways
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Published in: Home: OpinionLet’s not forget about the heatwave now it’s overMany acted like COVID was over once restrictions ended. Let’s not do the same with the latest devastating heatwave
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Published in: 50.50: FeatureHow trans footballers are finding community in grassroots sportVicious backlash against trans people in sport hasn’t stopped players finding supportive, nurturing teams
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionFacebook lawsuit in Kenya could affect Big Tech accountability across AfricaIt’s time for the social media giants to stop exploiting and traumatising low-wage workers in Africa
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Published in: Home: NewsTruss silent on conversion therapy ban as ally insists U-turn hint was wrongFormer equalities minister Mike Freer says he has been assured that Liz Truss’s views ‘have not changed’
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionWhat does Kansas’s ‘no’ vote on anti-abortion amendment mean for midterms?The state is a rather peculiar place – its result may not matter as much as some analysts and pundits are suggesting
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Published in: oDR: FeatureJust working for wood: life inside Tajikistan’s silk industrySilk production is still a major part of the country’s economy – and women bear the brunt of this harsh work
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Published in: Home: OpinionUnited in intolerance, India and Pakistan are more alike than everReligious intolerance and ultra-nationalism bring India and Pakistan together on their 75th birthday
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Published in: Home: InvestigationRogue solicitors offering fake advice to scam migrants out of life savings‘Advice sharks’ taking cash from vulnerable people for immigration applications that have no hope of being accepted
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Published in: Home: NewsMPs charged public £1.3m to foot their tax billsRevealed: Council tax expense claims come on top of the £11.4m taxpayers already spend on MPs' rent and energy
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Published in: Home: NewsExclusive: Liz Truss campaign hints at U-turn on conversion therapy banTory leadership hopeful ‘hates’ the policy she brought forward as equalities minister, suggests Iain Duncan Smith
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Published in: 50.50: FeatureSpanish lawyer names bishops and priests pushing conversion therapyMany of the 70 figures identified by Saúl Castro have not previously been linked to the anti-LGBTIQ practice
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Published in: oDR: FeatureAnti-union laws have punished Kazakhstan’s workers. But the fight isn’t overWorkers in Kazakhstan have faced pressure for years but continue to fight for their rights and social justice, new...
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Published in: oDR: OpinionBelarusian prisoners’ letters shine light on life in Lukashenka’s jailsTwo years after protesters contested Belarus’s election result, they refuse to be silenced – even while behind bars
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Published in: Home: FeatureFirefighters risk cancer and heat stroke as UK braces for more wildfiresHaving been ‘decimated’ by cuts, fire services must risk personal safety as climate change worsens heatwaves
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Published in: Home: NewsReligious fundamentalist lawyers ‘preyed on’ Archie Battersbee’s familyChristian Legal Centre and Christian Concern accused of using tragic case to whitewash their own anti-rights work
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Published in: 50.50: NewsWhy gay and bi men at risk of monkeypox are missing out on the vaccineDisabled, working, or not out? You may not want to queue for a jab, and there’s little official support
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Published in: 50.50: NewsBlack Italians’ plea to media and politicians after killing of Nigerian manPublic discussions have failed to take gender, race, class and disability into account, says Italian Anti-Racist Coordination
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» Nothing like 8% of the UK is managed as grouse moor. This figure is decades out of date. The Scottish Government recently undertook a very authoritative review of this matter...
– by mattcross on: 8% of British land is managed as grouse moor for the rich
17 August 2022
» I wonder how can one write such an article, propose eviction freeze and forgets to wonder about the causes of this phenomenon. I can tell you very easily; Brits have voted for...
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» Well, I'm trans and I live in South Wales and Cardiff Dragons FC blocked me on Twitter and Facebook for no apparent reason. I used the contact form on their website to ask why...
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» The brazen cynicism of Tories (and much of the rest of the UK's political landscape) on how to handle both conversion therapy and the campaigns against transgender people is...
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