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Articles tagged with "UK government"

12.05.25

Trapped in work

Opinion: Migrant workers prop up the UK’s social care system. Now we’re being forced out

Labour’s crackdown will break a promise made to workers like me – and leave the system in disrepair

29.04.25

Environment

Controversial chicken ‘megafarms’ given millions in government handouts

Campaigners call for more sustainable system after revelations that huge farms near the Wye and Severn got £14m in subsidies

17.04.25

The Enablers

Queen Elizabeth’s lawyer helped manage millions for alleged war criminal Rifaat al-Assad

Mark Bridges worked for ‘butcher of Hama’ while advising the British monarch

29.03.25

The Enablers

HMRC prosecutions of tax evasion enablers plummet

Legal actions against facilitators stand at next to nothing – and new figures differ wildly from those previously given

25.03.25

Employment tribunals: can you help us with a major new project?

If you have tried to take your employer to tribunal, or helped someone who has, we want to hear from you

22.03.25

Family Court Files

How Melanie Gill became a ‘leading authority’ on parental alienation

Unregulated psychologist’s rise from little-known music promoter to court-appointed expert in a dubious pseudoscience

19.03.25

Local Power

It’s not a rotten borough, it’s a rotten system

Huge debts, few checks and balances and a culture of denial led Spelthorne council to financial meltdown, just like a similar disaster in nearby Thurrock

17.03.25

Local Power

Council that gambled £1bn on the property market set for government takeover

Spelthorne spent big on commercial properties to offset austerity cuts but amassed disastrous debts

06.02.25

The Enablers

Abramovich revelations put heat on HMRC over offshore tax losses

MPs call for tax authority to crack down on offshore tax avoidance in wake of TBIJ reports

31.01.25

Environment

Diseased chicken entered UK after post-Brexit delays to border checks

British consumers were exposed to drug-resistant salmonella because new protocols took years to come into force

30.01.25

The Enablers

MPs call for investigation into Abramovich’s tax bill

Joe Powell and Iain Duncan Smith call for government probe following revelations by TBIJ

21.01.25

The Enablers

How we did it: putting together the Silenced Stories debate

Using parliamentary privilege to reveal what the powerful didn't want us to know

22.11.24

The Enablers

Zahawi, Al-Fayed and Ampika Pickston: All the silenced stories

MPs used parliamentary privilege during the SLAPPs debate to reveal stories suppressed by legal threats

21.11.24

The Enablers

SLAPPs: What are the next steps to end abusive libel actions?

Labour has yet to announce any concrete plans to pass new legislation

18.10.24

Trapped in work

Employment Rights Bill: will new unfair dismissal rules help seasonal workers?

Proposals may improve the outlook for vulnerable migrant workers – but do not address the root of the problem

15.10.24

Trans+ Voices

Trans+ suicides in the UK: why are reporting guidelines part of the debate?

Coroners and charities have drawn a link between lack of access to healthcare and subsequent suicides. But gender critical campaigners have long disputed the evidence

09.10.24

The Enablers

Illegal donations: how does dark money get into UK politics?

Parties’ growing reliance on private cash has opened up the entire system to foreign influence

24.08.24

Trapped in work

‘We sacrificed everything we had’: seasonal workers left without jobs after Home Office decision

Workers were promised UK jobs before recruiter had licence revoked

17.07.24

Trans+ Voices

Puberty blockers: what are they and why are they in the news?

As Wes Streeting prepares to uphold ban on private prescriptions, we explain what it could mean for trans and non-binary people – what happens next

06.07.24

Big Tech

Russian disinformation networks ramp up attacks on European elections

Two sets of sites pushing Russian misinformation grew rapidly in the run up to this week’s votes in the UK and France

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