Author: Miles Donavan

‘The same fossil fuel corporations driving the climate crisis and blocking a just transition are those funnelling Israel the oil it needs for its war machine: all to secure their profits.’ In what is the first major climate justice mobilisation under the new Labour government, activists from more than 60 organisations are gathering in London today – November 16 – to demand the government ends reliance on fossil fuels, pays up for climate finance, and ends its “complicity in Israel’s escalating genocidal violence.” War on Want, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Amnesty International UK, Extinction Rebellion, Just Stop Oil, Fossil Free…

Trump’s victory is a wakeup call. It is time to regroup and get serious about the world we want to live in. Dawn Butler is the Labour MP for Brent Central I am still in the early stages of processing the news of a Donald Trump victory in the US election. I understand that there has been a spike in Google searches of ‘how can I reverse my vote’. The thing is, that is democracy. We are very fond in the UK of saying the electorate is never wrong. I think that if the number of people who are seeking to…

In yet more proof that Gudio is firmly part of the Tory establishment, Kempsell  – was the former prime minister’s spokesman and reportedly his tennis partner. Right-wing Tory supporting blog Guido Fawkes is set to be taken over by former Boris Johnson aide Lord Ross Kempsell, after owner Paul Staines announced he was stepping down as editor this week. Lord Kempsell ‘has been appointed to the role of publisher and will look at how to grow Guido’s audience and revenue, and eventually the size of the newsroom’, Press Gazette reports. In yet more proof that Guido is firmly part of…

The UK and Lesotho are the only two countries to have an entirely unelected parliamentary chamber. The House of Lords, the UK’s second parliamentary chamber, is primarily a revising chamber and urges the government of the day to rethink some aspects of its proposed legislation. However, it is unelected and unrepresentative of the population and needs to be reformed. There are two issues facing the UK’s Labour government. Firstly, how to get its legislation through the House of Lords where Labour is heavily outnumbered by the opposition parties? Secondly, how to reform the unelected and unrepresentative House of Lords? At…

A full breakdown of what we know about cabinet members’ views so far Labour backbencher Kim Leadbeater has proposed a new Bill to parliament seeking to legalise assisted dying. The proposed legislation would allow adults who are terminally ill with less than six months to live take their own life at the time of their choosing. MPs are split as to whether to back the legislation – including those within the governing Labour Party. Labour will be giving its MPs a free vote on the bill, meaning that they will not be whipped to vote in a particular way. LabourList…

It comes as the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) issued a red alert on the first day of the UN Climate Change Conference, COP29. The government has announced that new coal mining schemes will be banned in the UK, as it tries to battle against climate change and limit global temperature rises. The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero wrote: “Licensing of new coal mines is set to be restricted as the government commits to bringing in legislation which will prohibit new coal mining projects. “The government today (14 November) confirmed it will introduce new legislation as soon as possible…

‘It is clear that these actions are incompatible with the council’s Core TOWER values – Together, Open, Willing, Excellent and Respect.’ The chair of a Labour group has called for the resignation of Tower Hamlets Council’s chief executive, Stephen Halsey, following serious failings identified in a recent report. The government intervened after concerns about a “toxic culture” and lack of transparency within the council, led by independent executive mayor Lutfur Rahman. In a letter to Halsey, that was withdrawn but has been seen by Left Foot Forward, Christopher Worral, chair of Poplar and Limehouse CLP, called for his resignation under…

“Seriously, stop bringing problems to the table and start bringing solutions.” The right have spent many years undermining the fight against climate change, from denying scientific evidence, to shifting the goalposts by claiming the policies designed to tackle catastrophic climate change are ‘too costly’. With Trump winning the US election, some are feeling emboldened, as they try to pressure the Labour government to drop policies aimed at tackling climate change. In the latest example of an attempt to discredit climate change policies, the founder of right-wing blog Guido Fawkes, Paul Staines, told LBC: “You can’t power a metropolis off batteries,…

Trump’s commitment to protectionism has destroyed the growth models on which Reeves’s budget was built Mike Buckley is the director of the Independent Commission on UK-EU Relations and a former Labour Party adviser As the dust settles on Rachel Reeves’ first budget, a number of conclusions can be drawn. First, and most obviously, she inherited an economic mess, parlous Government finances and disastrous public services from her predecessors. She deserves plaudits for having made choices the effect of which will be to bring dramatic improvements in all three areas. Planned government investment will boost the economy and encourage private investment;…

In 2015, the Independent Airport’s Commission (led by Sir Howard Davies) concluded that, by 2060, a new runway at Heathrow would create £147 billion for the UK economy. Parmjit Dhanda, Executive Director of Back Heathrow and Former Labour Government Minister For the past seven years, my organization has been pushing for Heathrow’s expansion, to deliver the private sector-led investment Britain needs for economic growth. In 2015, the Independent Airport’s Commission (led by Sir Howard Davies) concluded that, by 2060, a new runway at Heathrow would create £147 billion for the UK economy. Yet last week, media reports were suggesting the government is still split over whether to…