George Osborne made food banks necessary, now his newspaper is asking you to pay for them
Phone up and ask the former chancellor – who is taking part in the charity telethon – why he loves food banks so much. Don’t phone up and donate money.
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To survive, the next Labour government must be more Attlee than Allende
Already shaken by Brexit, banks are reconsidering their positions in the UK. And it is crucial that they know where they stand with the Labour party.
Why is Universal Credit sanctioning three times more people than its predecessor?
The system pioneered by the Tories is either broken or was set up to punish those most in need of state support.
‘Austerity is nowhere near over’: IFS gives bleak assessment of budget
Things are going to get much worse, before they get better.
A Robin Hood Tax would work. Trust me, I used to work for a hedge fund
Why is everyone still paying for the bankers’ mess – except the bankers themselves?
Here’s why immigration detention is pointless – as well as cruel
The Government is detaining more migrants each year but deporting proportionally fewer, wasting money in the process and causing unnecessary harm to thousands of people.
It’s official: Free schools have failed to deliver
Academies – one of the coalition’s flagship policies in 2010 – have not lived up to any of Michael Gove’s big promises, a new report has found.
There are clear ways to rebuild our broken economy but the government is blinded by Tory dogma
It’s not just about increasing borrowing — we need to start closing corporate tax loopholes.
300,000 people are homeless in Britain and it’s a direct result of Tory austerity
In one London borough 1 in 25 people are homeless. It’s a crisis the government did nothing to stop.
Here’s why you shouldn’t trust the Tories’ tax revenue figures
Rather than responding honestly to a difficult question, the Prime Minister appears to have engaged in some creative accounting.