Green Candidate's Narrow Presidential Victory Remakes Austrian Politics

Alexander Van der Bellen, an independent candidate backed by the Austrian Green Party, fought neck and neck with far-right Freedom Party candidate Norbert Hofer and scratched out a narrow victory in the historic election.

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"Educational Excellence"? Brits Critical of Government Academies Say Think Again

“It is a complete bonfire of pay and conditions," said David Gilchrist of the Anti-Academies Alliance, who claims the government has "no evidence to back up the claim that academies improve educational standards – in fact the opposite is true."

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Doctors Be Damned: Unfair Health Contract Sparks Exodus of UK Medical Professionals

The government's new contract is "a deliberate process to undermine, fragment and cheapen the entire workforce and enable a transition to a U.S.-style, insurance based system – which is less fair and is not cheaper, far from it."

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New UK Health Contract A Disaster: "I Can't Work For A Government That Clearly Despises Me"

Defying an unprecedented wave of strikes by the British medical establishment, the government announced last week that junior doctors must accept increased working hours, reduced pay and a removal of safeguards against overworking.

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150 London Students Launch Rent Strike Demanding Lower Housing Costs

Students at University College London announced this week that they'd be withholding a total of £250,000 in rent payments unless their school reduced rent costs by 40%.

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Junior Doctors In Britain Launch Nationwide Strike Opposing Changes To Pay and Conditions

Unionized doctors across the U.K. have committed to strike today, providing emergency care only as they challenge government healthcare in a way unseen since the 1948 introduction of Britain's National Health Service.

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Privacy Advocates In Uproar Over UK Cyber Surveillance Bill

Following terror attacks on Paris last month, the spectre of a Draft Investigatory Powers Bill now looms over Britain as lawmakers debate instituting the most invasive cyber-surveillance regime to date.

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Journalists Lash Out Against Proposed Laws Restricting UK Press Freedom

Britain's media has been flooded with petitions, emotional speeches and general confusion about the government's proposed changes to Freedom of Information requests, which signal a chilling of press freedom.

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UK Lawmakers Revolt, Britain Up In Arms Over Proposed Cuts to Tax Credit Benefits

For the first time in a century, the House of Lords voted down a financial package approved by the House of Commons – as the Green Party's Jenny Jones said, "the proposed changes to tax credits were another example of Tory economic illiteracy."

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New Network Of UK Political Activists Builds Power Around Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn

The election of the outspoken left-wing leader marked a sea change in British politics and encouraged droves to jump into party activism – now there's a new way for them to do it with the launch of the grassroots network Momentum.

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