Westminster Says a Mayor Could Save the North East. The North East Isn’t So Sure
Moya Lothian-McLean
Tory devolution isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
Tag: poverty
Labour or the SNP? It’s Not Much of a Choice for Working Class Scots
Jonathon Shafi
Difference in rhetoric won’t cut it.
Meet the Robin Hood-Style Activists ‘Shoplifting’ for Food Banks
Simon Childs
‘It's not going to be the CEO of Tesco who's going hungry.’
It’s Time for a Republican Movement – And Young People Will Lead It
Kimberly McIntosh
Princess Di, this one’s for you.
Who’s to Blame for Deep Poverty in Scotland?
Jonathon Shafi
It’s a pretty bleak situation.
Neoliberal Politicians Are Destroying Glasgow
Jonathon Shafi
£50 to collect your garden waste? A joke.
How a Cumbrian Community is Building Working Class Confidence
Craig Gent
‘We call it mutual aid.’
The IMF is About to Enforce Worldwide Austerity
Matteo Tiratelli
Get ready for some neoliberal strong-arming.
Wow! The Tories Are Planning to ‘Level Up’ Britain Again
James Morrison
It means almost nothing.
Let Them Eat Nothing: Food Banks to Close for Queen’s Funeral
Simon Childs
But one will re-open after an online backlash.
The Establishment’s Plan to Deal With Inflation
As inflation rises the establishment has a solution: we all need to get poorer. The alternative is for profits to fall – but that is unacceptable to the powerful. Aaron Bastani on how only unions can save us.
Why Do Tories Love Crypto?
Peter Howson
Because the winner takes all and the poor get nothing.
21st Century Child Homelessness in New York City. Ash Sarkar Meets Andrea Elliot
In 2012 a New York Times journalist met 11 year old Dasani Coates. Over the next 8 years the journalist followed Dasani and her family as they navigated social services, the cascade of generational trauma and the attention of a New York City Mayor. Ash Sarkar meets Andrea Elliott author of Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City.
How Putin Bribed Russia’s Peasant Army Into a War They Don’t Want
Liza Smirnova & Alexey Sakhnin
Russia’s poor are paying for Ukraine in blood.
How Britain Starved Ireland
Today the island of Ireland has a smaller population than it did 200 years ago. How did that happen, and what has it got to do with free market capitalism? Aaron Bastani explains how London politicians and Irish landlords exploited a crisis in the name of an ideology – in the process wrecking the lives […]
A Few New Bus Lanes Won’t ‘Level Up’ the UK – But Upping the Minimum Wage Might
Ell Folan
Median pay is 33% higher in London than in the northeast.
Influencers, Exploitation and Capitalism. Ash Sarkar Meets Symeon Brown
How far would you go to get famous and escape poverty? Ash Sarkar is joined by Symeon Brown to discuss how the democratic promise of the internet has reinvented the pyramid scheme. From cryptocurrencies to botched Brazilian butt lifts, they look at how the new clout economy has created a digital lumpenproletariat.
Poor Brits Live Much Shorter Lives. What Can We Do?
Ell Folan
A better-funded NHS is only part of the solution.