4 d. ago Nationwide's £100 bonus for customers who used accounts in March

The building society could dish out more free payments as part of its Fairer Share scheme

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2 w. ago ‘Tourism is killing this city’ thousands protest in Spain, Canary Islands and Majorca

Demonstrations took place in cities across Spain, the Canary Islands and the Balearic Islands as locals spoke out about the country's housing crisis

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2 w. ago Brit holidaymakers brace for ANOTHER summer of protest hell as hundreds of thousands pack streets in Madrid, Barcelona and Majorca demanding end to 'uncontrolled tourism' in Spain

Demonstrators demand a solution to a housing crisis that they say has been fuelled by mass tourism as they marched through 40 Spanish cities on Saturday - with the threat of more protests looming.

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3 w. ago Thousands in Spain join nationwide march to protest against housing crisis

Organisers say 150,000 joined protest in Madrid urging the government to ‘end the housing racket’ and to demand access to affordable housingTens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of Spain in the latest protest against housing speculation and to demand access to affordable homes.Organisers claim that up to 150,000 joined the protest in Madrid while smaller demonstrations were held in about 40 cities across the country. Protesters from Málaga on the Costa del Sol to Vigo in the Atlantic northwest chanted “end the housing racket” and “landlords are guilty, the government is responsible”. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Spaniards march across 40 cities to protest the growing housing crisis

Protesters have returned to the streets across Spain in anger over high housing costs with no relief in sight

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3 w. ago Vilified, arrested, held incommunicado: that's the price of protest in Britain today | George Monbiot

It seems to me that whatever the charges facing the activists at the Quaker meeting house raid, their fundamental crime is dissentThe faces are different, but it’s the same authoritarianism. Keir Starmer’s team might not look or sound like Donald Trump’s, but its policies on protest and dissent are chillingly similar. So is the reason: coordinated global lobbying by the rich and powerful, fronted by rightwing junktanks.Last week, six young women were having tea and biscuits in the Quaker meeting house in Westminster. Twenty police officers forced open the door and arrested them on conspiracy charges. Had the police discovered a plot to blow up parliament or to poison the water supply? No. It was an openly advertised, routine meeting of a protest group called Youth Demand, discussing climate breakdown and the assault on Gaza.George Monbiot is a Guardian columnistThe Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism, by George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison, was published in paperb...

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3 w. ago Who are Youth Demand? Protest group at centre of Quaker house arrests threaten month of disruptive action

Youth Demand will be holding open rallies every week during April

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