Angela Rayner under fresh fire over plans to hand more powers to unions after she failed to stand up to striking barons in Birmingham

found 2025 › Apr › 16 (Wed) @ 00:35 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

After workers voted to prolong the crippling strikes, Tory leader Kemi Badenoch told the Mail it was clear 'unions now run our country'.

'Bin strike blues' and China 'access to NHS' data

found 2025 › Apr › 15 (Tue) @ 23:50 UTC

a story from BBC › BBC News

A range of stories on the front of Wednesday's papers including the latest on bin strikes in Birmingham.

Duke and Duchess of Westminster join godson Prince George, 11, and Prince William to cheer on Aston Villa in nail-biting game

found 2025 › Apr › 15 (Tue) @ 20:45 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Billionaire aristocrat Hugh Grosvenor, 34, and his wife Olivia Henson, 32, joined the royal and his eldest son, Prince George, 11, in the VIP stands at Villa Park in Birmingham on Tuesday.

SARAH VINE: The revolting bin chaos in Birmingham is a national disgrace - and it tells us exactly who actually holds the power in Starmer's Britain

found 2025 › Apr › 15 (Tue) @ 16:55 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Birmingham is piled high with rotting garbage and cat-sized rats. It's also a perfect metaphor for this supposed 'government of the people' and for the self-serving Labour politicians.

Birmingham council 'on track' to clear waste backlog

found 2025 › Apr › 15 (Tue) @ 13:50 UTC

a story from BBC › BBC News

Bin workers remain in a stand-off with the council after an all-out strike started on 11 March.

Travellers take over Birmingham park for second time in a week: Caravans and horse wagon pitch up week after being moved on

found 2025 › Apr › 15 (Tue) @ 12:40 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Some 16 huge caravans have yet again pitched up on Swanshurst Park, near Moseley, on Sunday, with around a dozen still there this morning.

Birmingham bin misery 'could spread' to more councils as firebrand union humiliatingly rejects Labour's pleas to take 'good offer'

found 2025 › Apr › 15 (Tue) @ 10:10 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Union officials said there is 'potential' for walkouts to happen in other areas of the country as they demanded more concessions on pay.

Underdogs: The Truth About Britain’s White Working Class review – a complicated class portrait

found 2025 › Apr › 15 (Tue) @ 06:35 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Journalist Joel Budd travels around Britain demolishing Brexit myths in a nuanced study of a social group too often reduced to a cartoon by politicians

On 13 November 1968, a 35-year-old Labour politi…

Bin strike grinds on as Labour is humiliated after union rejects Rayner's plea to end Birmingham crisis

found 2025 › Apr › 14 (Mon) @ 23:55 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

The rejection brought pressure on ministers to get tough on their 'paymasters', with accusations that Labour's inaction was taking Britain 'back to the 1970s'.

The Papers: Katy Perry in space and Birmingham bin strikes

found 2025 › Apr › 14 (Mon) @ 21:55 UTC

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A number of Tuesday's front pages reflect on Katy Perry becoming the first pop star to venture into space.