Boris Johnson warned that plans for new Royal Yacht Britannia could ‘badly backfire’
As people are forced to choose between heating and eating as the cost-of-living spirals, the PM will hail the £250m boat as a symbol of ‘Global Britain.’
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How Tower Hamlets council stepped up to support residents and businesses during the pandemic
‘During this crisis local government has stepped up as we know headline GDP figures don’t always reflect the reality on our high streets’
An enduring mental health crisis needn’t be a legacy of this pandemic
‘An enduring legacy from this pandemic should instead be putting mental health on par with physical health’
Bedding banks appear alongside food banks as fuel poverty kicks in
‘This is poverty at its demeaning and degrading worst.’
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.’