Government’s new £2m rogue landlord crackdown plan sounds good – but is it enough?
Housing campaigners and landlord associations alike fear the move will lead to a “postcode lottery” for ailing private renters.
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Section 21 must end – so let’s build a renters’ union
The main cause of homelessness in Britain is no-fault evictions filed through Section 21 of the Housing Bill. Cllr Niroshan Sirisena argues a renter’s union is the solution.
Food bank usage in the capital is on the rise as wealth inequality soars
While Londoners are driven to food banks in their hundreds, the richest in the capital keep raking in the chips.
Why wouldn’t some idiots burn an effigy of Grenfell? The government has treated survivors with just as much contempt
The vile Bonfire Night joke that went viral on social media is not an isolated case. It is directly linked to Tory politics. Joana Ramiro explains.
Even Theresa May’s own voters don’t believe her promise to end austerity
A pre-Budget poll shows the public want austerity to end but don’t trust May to do it
Budget 2018: British lives could be easily improved, just don’t expect the Tories to do it
Ahead of next week’s budget announcement, Prem Sikka explains all the ways the British economy could be rescued immediately. But will the Tories ever deliver?
Could this alternative theory of money radically change how we think about the economy?
A new project will promote the idea that it is the government – not the private sector – that creates money. In doing so, it could demolish the arguments for austerity…
The crisis in student mental health isn’t about individual behaviour – but the marketisation of higher education
The young have been systematically marginalised: is it any surprise that their mental health should suffer as a result?
Austerity is a Tory choice – the Prime Minister’s empty words won’t end it
May has claimed austerity is over, but where are the concrete initiatives to back this up?
Revealed: New figures strike blow to Tories’ austerity project
This won’t make pleasant reading for the Chancellor…