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Feature: Can a Bunch of Tech Nerds Solve the Housing Crisis?

Rivkah Brown

Roost promises to create one million housing co-ops, but its high rents and willingness to work with landlords have turned off housing activists. Is their scepticism warranted? Rivkah Brown reports.

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Report: ‘Covid Rogue’ Among Labour’s Business Backers

Polly Smythe

John Holland-Kaye was responsible for 'one of, if not the most brutal example, of fire and rehire during the Covid pandemic.' Rachel Reeves is now boasting of his support. Polly Smythe reports.

police officers wearing high vis and police hats stand outside of a branch of JD sports

Analysis: There Is Zero Evidence of a Shoplifting ‘Epidemic’

Ell Folan

Shoplifting rates are down from 2017, writes Ell Folan, while the media is acting as if all hell has broken loose.

Opinion: Stop Begging Big Business to Play Nice

Moya Lothian-McLean

In lieu of actual power, the UK government and regulatory authorities have taken to pleading with fat cat bosses to think of the children. They won’t, argues Moya Lothian-McLean.

Opinion: The Green Transition is Already Underway – And It’s Not Looking Pretty

Nicholas Beuret

If climate campaigners continue to focus on the UK’s emissions gap, we'll miss the bigger picture. The green transition is already happening – and it’s shaping up to be a nightmare, argues Nicholas Beuret.

Jeremy Corbyn meets supporters in Middlesbrough, 11 December 2019.

Analysis: Generation Left Might Not Be That Left After All

James Meadway

The left is wrong to take young people’s support for granted, writes James Meadway.

Opinion: Until He Starts Talking About Rent Caps, Keir Starmer Isn’t Serious About Championing Business

Aaron Bastani

For all his posturing, Keir Starmer’s efforts to recast Labour as the party of business are entirely cosmetic, argues Aaron Bastani. If he really wanted to address the challenges businesses face, he’d be talking about rent caps.

Opinion: To Understand Why the NHS Is Struggling to Respond to Covid-19, We Must Look at Who Runs It

Jo Sutton-Klein

Coronavirus has highlighted the inertia of the NHS. This is not just down to incompetent yet powerful managers, writes doctor Jo Sutton-Klein, it is a problem with the very structures that govern our health service, impeding democracy and keeping frontline staff out of decision-making.

Opinion: By Letting Small Businesses Fail, the State Is Handing Power to Corporate Giants

Grace Blakeley

The world’s biggest businesses will benefit from the coronavirus crisis as they devour the carcasses of their smaller rivals, writes Grace Blakeley. But this is not just the nature of the market, it comes down to who the government chooses to help and who it chooses to abandon.

Bad for Business? 5 Ways a Corbyn Government Could Change the UK Economy

Tom Cutterham

Perhaps second only to 'aspiration', 'working with business' is among the most common dog-whistle refrains from the Labour leadership candidates. Dismissed by many for being 'anti-business', what would Corbyn really mean for the economy?

The Ineptitude of Chuka Umunna: 5 Signs Labour are Scraping the Barrel

Dan Whittall

"Cities are on the march," declares shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna. That's easy for Blue Labour's anti-squatter pin-up to say, but here's why he's failed on the basics of urban political economy and why his ineptitude means Labour are scraping the ideas barrel.

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