Bedding banks appear alongside food banks as fuel poverty kicks in
‘This is poverty at its demeaning and degrading worst.’
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Tax ‘dirty profits’ to ease cost of living crisis, Green Party co-leaders say
‘While people freeze in their homes, this government is warm and cosy in bed with dirty energy companies who are making profits from the misery of millions.’
Dawn Butler MP: ‘We can’t allow levelling up to be seen only in geographic terms’
‘If the Government is serious about tackling inequality and levelling up, it needs to act to increase the incomes of those in poverty’
The Right’s demographic anxiety
Racial anxieties are moving from the online far right to mainstream politics.
The energy price crisis is also down to the UK’s obsession with privatisation
This week Shell reported that its profits have increased from $4.85bn to $19.3bn as rising energy prices have filled its coffers.
Calls for a 6% increase to benefits to protect low-income families amid cost of living crisis
‘There has long been a profound mismatch between what those with a low income have, and what they need to get by’
Jon Trickett: Government’s levelling up plans fall at the first hurdle
‘Only a radical economic transformation will work. But the Tories will never spearhead such a vision.’
Prof Prem Sikka: The government is plumbing to new depths of waste, incompetence and fraud
‘The latest evidence of incompetence is in the annual report and accounts of the Department of Health and Social Care for the period ended 31 March 2021.’
Levelling up? 2 key facts that show how the country has become less equal under the Tories
Cuts to English council and schools’ spending have been larger in more deprived areas.
The Downing Street farce of ‘partygate’ is in danger of obscuring some very serious problems
‘The government’ s cost of living crisis is entirely of its own making’