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Mandelson ‘influential’ in electing Labour’s Scottish Secretary

Post author:Cameron Baillie
Post published:5 June 2026
Post last modified:7 June 2026

Newly revealed documents expose Labour’s Scottish Secretary Douglas Alexander as a devoted friend of Peter Mandelson, publicly humiliating his position. Mandelson was “influential,” in Alexander’s own words, in securing his seat as MP for Lothian East. The SNP have called for the minister’s resignation over his apparently doting relationship with Mandelson. The disgraced corrupt former ambassador and friend of notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was well-known, well-loved, and well-connected within the Labour Party. Him and pro-corporate stooge Tony Blair shaped vile New Labour through a willingness to court power, whatever ugly face it took. However, those tight connections across the right wing…

Consortium representing child refugees speaks out against Labour’s AI plans

Post author:Alex/Rose Cocker
Post published:1 June 2026
Post last modified:8 June 2026

The Refugee and Migrant Children’s Consortium (RMCC) has spoken out against government plans to access asylum seekers’ age using AI. On Friday 29 May, the Home Office announced plans to use AI in cases when an asylum seekers’ age is in dispute. However, the RMCC warned that the scheme could lead to yet more wrongful detentions of vulnerable children in adult facilities. The news follows April’s revelations from the independent Humans for Rights Network, which exposed the fact that the Home Office routinely detains so-called “age-disputed children” as adults. Of the 76 age-disputed detainees at the time, 26 had been —…

Activists call out Labour’s ‘dangerous militarisation of higher education’

Post author:Tom Pashby
Post published:29 May 2026
Post last modified:8 June 2026

Labour’s Defence Universities Alliance (DUA) would be a “a dangerous militarisation of higher education“, according to the campaign group Demilitarise Education (dED), which is calling on universities, students, staff, trade unions, and local communities to oppose the initiative. Defence Industrial Strategy 2025 The DUA was initially announced in September 2025 in the Defence Industrial Strategy, which said: We will establish a Defence Universities Alliance (DUA) to form a more strategic relationship between defence and the higher education sector. The DUA will build on existing connections between the sectors to support careers in the defence sector and encourage ethical defence and security…

Labour’s summer cost of living policies reduce it to the Groupon administration

Post author:James Wright
Post published:23 May 2026
Post last modified:8 June 2026

Labour has announced some cost of living policies that treat voters as children. Rather than any significant economic strategy for real change, the ruling party is offering voters temporary gimmicks like no import tariffs on chocolate and biscuits for the summer. Instead, Labour could deliver cost price essentials such as water, energy and telecomms to significantly reduce costs for every person and business. Labour — The gimmicks It’s almost laughable. This is the Groupon administration. As well as cutting costs for supermarkets on trivial items, the ruling party is cutting VAT on summer days out for families from 20% to 5%.…