Which comes first: widening inequality or the ‘affective polarisation’ that goes with it?

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With a key tenants’ rights bill set to go before MPs, what is going through the minds of the UK’s property class?

OPINION: As strikes soar, Scottish schools are shut and Royal Mail workers and university staff are downing tools

Campaigners had urged the government to cap private rents alongside social rents, which will be limited to a 7% rise

OPINION: Prioritising profit over people has disproportionately affected women and girls. It shouldn’t be this way

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Virgin Atlantic, BA and EasyJet blasted over ‘outrageous’ request for taxpayers to subsidise their passengers

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To offer a coherent message to voters, the party must listen to those on frontlines of the far-right attack

The global food system urgently needs an overhaul to allow diverse crops, producers and supply routes

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Rishi Sunak’s old allies at the Institute of Economic Affairs were behind policies that helped crash the economy

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Money for Ukraine’s recovery must ‘not disappear into the hands of oligarchs’, Nadia Whittome told openDemocracy

Social and private tenants are bearing the brunt of the political chaos sparked by the UK’s shortest-serving PM

OPINION: The bank’s power over interest rates is political. It must not be held by unaccountable technocrats

OPINION: The PM’s legacy will be one of a tanking pound, soaring inflation, and a seemingly inevitably recession

Opinion: Truss leaves behind a divided party trailing in the polls. But there’s one policy area it could seize on

After a summer of strikes, unions need to up their media game to make real and lasting gains for workers