How we can end bogus self-employment which condemns millions to a low income
‘False or bogus self-employment is a major reason for low pay’.
Inequality
Weetabix engineers strike over fire and rehire plans that could see them lose up to £5,000 a year in wages
‘Last year Weetabix’s profits went up by almost 20% to more than £81 million’.
Boris Johnson cannot disown the mental health impact of the Universal Credit cut
‘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.’
Universal credit cut breaches human rights law, says UN envoy
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.’
EXCLUSIVE: Voters support abolishing private schools
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
‘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
‘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
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.
Are the days of the right-wing’s culture war numbered?
‘76% of people ‘didn’t know’ what politicians meant when they talked about a ‘culture war’.
Why constitutional reforms ought to be the centrepiece of the next general election campaign
‘There is no charter of people’s rights and parliament is weak and unable to hold government to account.’