Shocking chart reveals sheer scale of poverty in the UK
Around six million people were in very deep poverty in 2021-22 – 1.5 million more than 20 years ago
Inequality
Top Levelling Up official admits speed of delivering ‘levelling up’ has ‘not matched expectations’
The comment is the latest confirmation that the Tories’ levelling up agenda is failing.
This one shocking stat tells you everything you need to know about global inequality
The ultra-rich are only getting richer
The Post Office Scandal shows how the UK is a hotbed of corruption and cronyism
The root cause of the scandal is corporate power and its ability to hound and silence people into submission.
Britain is in the grip of a new form of feudalism
‘Feudalism never completely disappeared from the UK. It simply put on new garbs.’
Jacob Rees-Mogg roasted for claiming scrapping inheritance tax will ‘drive Britain into next century’
“It’s a bad tax for rich people yes Jacob.”
Natalie Bennett: Schools, prison, welfare: they’re still Victorian in style
Social innovation is possible. It is happening in a fast-changing, multi-challenge world of environmental and social crisis. Just not in the UK.
EXCLUSIVE: Voters say Conservative Party is only interested in representing the well off, poll finds
The findings come at a time when inequality continues to rise in the country.
Even a right-wing think tank fears Britain is slipping back to Victorian levels of inequality under the Tories
‘The most disadvantaged in Britain are no better off than 15 years ago’
We must make the moral and pragmatic case for ending child poverty
Child poverty doesn’t just mean having less opportunities and less access to goods and services growing up. Its effects are long term and in many cases last a lifetime.