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Plaid Cymru
Opinion

‘Inaction is not a solution’: Plaid Cymru develops ‘People’s Plan’ to tackle the cost-of-living crisis

Luke Fletcher
31 October, 2022

“It’s not so much that action is missing, it’s more that the UK government has been missing in action” – Plaid Cymru’s Luke Fletcher talks about the action needed to tackle the cost-of-living crisis.

News

Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 4, October 2022

Basit Mahmood
26 October, 2022

The news you didn’t see this week…

Child poverty
News

4 million children now living in homes without adequate access to food, as food insecurity doubles since January

Basit Mahmood
18 October, 2022

One in four households with children (25.8) have experienced food insecurity in the past month, with an estimated 4 million children affected

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Voices on the Left: 5 blogs from the left you need to read this week

Basit Mahmood
10 October, 2022

A roundup of progressive news…

Job Centre

Union warns of further poverty if benefits aren’t brought in line with inflation

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
9 October, 2022

‘Attempting to balance the books on the backs of the poorest in society is fundamentally wrong at any time and it will be especially devastating for many workers in the midst of a cost of living crisis.’

A photo of a blanket laying on cardboard boxes on a street
Opinion

Sarah Olney MP: The country is facing a homelessness emergency

Sarah Olney
3 October, 2022

‘The government must do more to protect those who need it, such as the 1.5 million who are on low-incomes and on pension credit.’

Theresa May

Six of the biggest Tory Party Conference blunders

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
2 October, 2022

Fake P45s, cringeworthy ‘cheese’ speeches, Boris Johnson’s position being changed to ‘tw*t’ amid a data breach: Can the memorable Conservative conference blunders of recent years possibly be surpassed?

Carla Denyer and Adrian RAmsay speaking at Green Party Conference
News

Privatisation has been an ‘acute and painful failure’, Green co-leaders tell party conference

Chris Jarvis
30 September, 2022

The Green Party has called for public ownership of water, energy and rail

Parliament

Prem Sikka: We’re in the latest stage of a right-wing coup that began in the 1970s

Prem Sikka
30 September, 2022

‘The right-wing coup is no respecter of democracy. ‘

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Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 4, September 2022

Chris Jarvis
28 September, 2022

The news you didn’t see this week…

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