A major lender to working-class people is on the rocks. Could a collapse trigger the next crash?
The instability at Provident Financial risks driving many into the arms of loan sharks.
As students struggle under debt, uni bosses’ pay is going through the roof
More MPs have resigned from Bath’s advisory council over sky-high pay. Universities should be forced to come clean over Vice Chancellors’ soaring salaries.
Here’s how to prevent another BHS-style crisis
A key BHS figure is finally being prosecuted – but the whole system needs reform to prevent another BHS-style scandal, argues financial expert Prem Sikka.
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Our electoral system is hugely unrepresentative and increasingly unpredictable — new report
First-past-the-post is so broken that the Tories would have won a majority in the House of Commons if they’d picked up just 533 more votes.
To prevent more needless deaths like Ellie’s, we need an open conversation about drugs
Ellie Rowe died at a festival after mixing ketamine and alcohol. Drug testing and counselling like at Boomtown this year are big steps forward in preventing more tragedy.
The government has privatised the Green Investment Bank – just as it becomes profitable
Today the UK’s flagship investor in green energy was handed over to an Australian asset management company – and progressives are rightly up in arms.
BREAKING: McDonald’s workers are going on strike for the first time in the UK
Off the back of the ‘Fight for 15′ campaign in the US, is this the start of a new fast-food workers’ movement here?
The Tories are refusing to name and shame care companies caught cheating workers out of pay
HMRC’s own inspections show nearly half of care companies are failing to pay the minimum wage. Yet the government are refusing to name and shame them. Why?
Teaching assistants are earning the minimum wage. We need to talk about poverty pay
Academies and schools are making tortuous calculations in order to get away with paying the bare minimum – in a county where rents and house prices are astronomical.
London Pride ‘failed to grasp the importance of diversity’, report claims
Bi and trans people report being insulted and made to feel unwelcome at the event, which ‘did not reflect the city’s diverse LGBT+ community’.
The Tories must start allowing children in care to ‘stay put’ past 18
Young people are allowed to remain in foster care until 21, but those in homes are often forced to leave before they are ready.
NUJ demands IPSO inquiry on press racism after ‘Muslim Problem’ article
The watchdog is currently only interested in attacks on individuals and does not usually look into complaints regarding the treatment of specific groups.
Enough is enough. May must cancel Trump’s state visit
Welcoming the US President after he defended fascists would send a dangerous message.