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How Andy Burnham can fund defence spending without cutting welfare
Slashing benefits isn't the answer
Welcome to the ‘Youth Hunger Games’: the brutal NEET race for shrinking pickings
Young people are being exhorted to keep chasing the elusive prize of employment, even as our work-centred world is diminishing
Reform’s proposed welfare benefit cuts would breach UK’s human rights commitments, Amnesty International warns
"It's not just wrong, it's a breach of the UK's human rights commitments."
We need to abolish state-sanctioned poverty
No one is ever born poor. They are condemned to poverty by societal policies which prevent millions from realising their full physical, mental, and intellectual capacities potentialities.
How mental health was dragged into the culture war
Rising levels of mental ill health are not the product of a cultural fad, driven by TikTok content that frames traits like talkativeness or difficulty finishing projects as evidence of ADHD, as the culture warriors would have us believe.
Waging war on poverty and exploitation is the only way to build a resilient society
The problems caused by neoliberalism cannot be addressed by bigger doses of neoliberal policies which prioritise profits and corporate interests over people’s welfare