Latest editorial
LABOUR will launch a set of radical proposals today on animal welfare that include introducing a ban on the export of live animals for slaughter, strengthening the Hunting Act and implementing a review of testing on animals.
The party is also proposing the appointment of a new animal-welfare commissioner to ensure government policy is informed by the latest scientific evidence on animal sentience and to safeguard animal welfare standards in new legislation and post-Brexit trade deals.
The draft policy document, Animal Welfare for the Many, Not the Few, suggests enshrining the principal of animal sentience in law, ending the government’s culling of badgers and introducing mandatory CCTV in all slaughterhouses.
The unions are unhappy with the Employment Rights Act 2025 and with good reason. KEITH EWING and Lord JOHN HENDY KC take a close look at why the Bill promised more than it delivered
PETER MASON is gripped by a novel that confronts corporate callousness with those prepared to act to bring about change
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR
