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Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 3, March 2022
The news you didn’t seek this week…
Half of UK children ‘will have to sacrifice essentials like food’ due to cost of living crisis, report warns
The New Economics Foundation (NEF) says that 23.4 million people in the UK will be short by more than £8,500 a year for income needed to pay for essentials including food, heating and clothing by next month.
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.’
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.’