Rent to Own stores are profiting from poverty
Many Britons are being forced to take out highly expensive warranties and insurance for basic items
Carl Packman
Website Carl is a health researcher; he writes book reviews for Left Foot Forward. Carl has written for the Guardian, New Statesman, Tribune Magazine, and The Philosopher's Magazine and blogs regularly at Though Cowards Flinch and Liberal Conspiracy. He is currently writing a book on consumer debt.
Personal debt is set to boom in 2015 – communities must change tack
We are caught in a debt-trap and we all need to talk about it
Comment: What the British left can learn from Greece
What’s good for the European project is not always good for the people of Europe
Book Review: Women Against Fundamentalism: stories of dissent and solidarity
A new book reminds us that free speech and human rights are universal principles and not a privilege of the enlightened west
The UK’s alliance with the Saudis legitimises their fanaticism
Saudi Arabia shows no signs of letting up on its distressing human rights record – it is time to cut ties.
Payday lenders: tougher rules and price caps are welcome. But more is needed
The FCA had an opportunity to fix a broken market. It didn’t take it.
Capitalism really did win when the wall fell
But the left shouldn’t despair.
The government is creating more roque landlords
We’ve come to expect it from some, but when even landlords with a social purpose are thinking twice about who they allow as tenants we know a change is needed.
We’ve a long way to go to beat the payday lenders
Despite new regulation, the big lenders will remain.
But isn’t Owen Jones a part of the establishment?
Reviewing Owen Jones’ new book, The Establishment, Carl Packman finds that what changes the British Establishment of today is merely the means with which they contain dissent