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Inequality

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Prof Prem Sikka: The government’s obsession with neoliberalism isn’t creating prosperity or happiness

Prem Sikka
8 October, 2021

‘The government could help households by freezing rents, energy and train fare prices. It could eliminate profiteering by bringing vital industries such as gas, water, electricity and railways into public ownership, but that is not on its agenda.’

‘Completely out of touch’: Edwina Currie’s levelling up ‘is working’ comments evoke outcry

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
7 October, 2021

The former Conservative MP’s clash with Gary Neville on GMB went viral, with people rejoicing as Neville ‘destroyed’ Currie in a row on Universal Credit that proves how out of touch the Tories are.

A photo of coins on documents with "Net Pay" written on them

How we can end bogus self-employment which condemns millions to a low income

Prem Sikka
24 September, 2021

‘False or bogus self-employment is a major reason for low pay’.

Weetabix engineers strike over fire and rehire plans that could see them lose up to £5,000 a year in wages

Basit Mahmood
22 September, 2021

‘Last year Weetabix’s profits went up by almost 20% to more than £81 million’.

Boris Johnson

Boris Johnson cannot disown the mental health impact of the Universal Credit cut

Tom Pollard
21 September, 2021

‘I’ve seen how policy is developed at the highest levels of government, but also how it plays out in the day-to-day lives of people at the margins of our society. Decisions made in the abstract at the top have painfully real consequences at the bottom.’

Chancellor Rishi Sunak

Universal credit cut breaches human rights law, says UN envoy

Basit Mahmood
16 September, 2021

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation says that the universal credit cut will impose the ‘biggest overnight cut to the basic rate of social security since the foundation of the modern welfare state.’

Eton

EXCLUSIVE: Voters support abolishing private schools

Basit Mahmood
26 August, 2021

Polling also found that 58% of those asked supported private schools losing their charitable status if they did not admit a high proportion of students from deprived backgrounds

Prof Prem Sikka: The political system doesn’t work for the poor and marginalised

Prem Sikka
20 August, 2021

‘One reason for the persistence of inequalities is that too many legislators are far removed from the social world inhabited by marginalised people’.

Amelia Womack and Tamsin Omond: Our first 100 days as Green Party co-leaders

Amelia Womack Tamsin Omond
19 August, 2021

‘In our first 100 days as leaders, we will meet with the UK’s leading progressive thinkers and movements to understand and promote the best ideas for a low-carbon future’

GCSE results: Gap between poorer and wealthier students continues to widen

Basit Mahmood
12 August, 2021

There was a widening of the gap for poorer students on free school meals, who scored on average 0.1 of a grade lower compared with 2019.

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