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Opinion: This Isn’t Just About Universal Credit – Our Entire Benefits System Is a Joke

Andrew Fisher

While the campaign to cancel the £20 cut to Universal Credit is welcome, we risk atomising our struggle against a broken system, argues Andrew Fisher.

Ash Wednesday: What About the White Working Class?

Has the idpol-loving left abandoned the white working class? The answer is a bit more complicated than the Tories would have you think.

Analysis: Did China Just End Extreme Poverty?

Aaron Bastani

China claims to have eliminated poverty. On some measures, this isn't true, but it's certainly doing far better than anywhere else. In fact, the myth of global progress has now come to depend on China - a country whose economic model is entirely different to our own.

Boris Johnson holds up a painting of a ladybird

Opinion: Long School Days Won’t Get Children up to Speed Post-Pandemic – Our Privately-Educated Overlords Should Know That

James McAsh

There's a reason small class sizes and rich extracurricular provision are staples of private schooling, writes primary teacher James McAsh.

The Bastani Factor: “This Is the Worst Interview I’ve Ever Seen With a Politician”

Speaking to Good Morning Britain, Health Secretary Matt Hancock gave the worst interview by a politician Aaron Bastani has ever seen. What does it say when after 100,000 people have died a leading politician can get away with such a performance?

The four protagonists of sex and the city stand in a cocktail bar laughing

Opinion: Sex and the City Is Back and I Couldn’t Help but Wonder: Will the Show Finally Throw Off Shackles of Capitalism?

Eleanor Penny

As the hit HBO franchise returns for its seventh season, Eleanor Penny asks whether our heroines will at last escape their opulent purgatory.

Novara Live: Meal Snatcher

Removing free school meals in the middle of a pandemic is arbitrary and cruel. Has Marcus Rashford revealed the true nature of Tory Britain? Plus: the leader of Islington Council, Richard Watts, on why school meals should be free for all; Deputy in the Chilean Congress, Giorgio Jackson, on the referendum that overturned Pinochet’s constitution; And, […]

Opinion: Trans People Aren’t ‘Chucking Bricks’, They’re Fighting to Survive

Aimee Armstrong

Framing the 'trans debate' as a culture war obstructs discussions about the political changes we must make to actually improve the material conditions of trans people and cis women alike, writes Aimee Armstrong.

Opinion: An Unprecedented Economic Crisis Is About to Hit the Global South. We Must Cancel Debts Now

Grace Blakeley

Economic turmoil is about to hit the global South, as the instability of a global pandemic sends investors fleeing. Wealthy nations must write off debts immediately, argues Grace Blakeley, to avoid catastrophe in the world's poorest countries.

Tory Candidate Faces Questions Over App That Charged Food Banks Hundreds of Pounds

Charlotte England & Craig Gent

A Conservative party candidate is facing questions over whether she sought to profit from Britain’s hunger crisis with an app that charged food banks hundreds of pounds to promote lists of items they need from donors.

Ash Wednesday: What Do London’s Rough Sleepers Think About the General Election?

What do London’s rough sleepers think of the general election? Ash Sarkar went and asked some of them.

GE2019: ‘Does Anyone Care?’ Teachers Are Asking You to Vote to End Child Poverty This Winter

James McAsh

Last week a seven-year-old girl wrote her letter to Father Christmas. She asked only for a home, some food, and a nice doll. “Can you help?” she wrote. “Mam wants us to be all together.” Our votes on 12 December will determine whether or not Father Christmas makes her wish come true.

Report: Universal Credit Is Riddled With Issues, but Have Some Flaws Been Deliberately Designed Into the System?

Natalie Leal

Universal credit has proved so unfit for purpose that Labour has said it will replace it entirely if elected next month. But perhaps the most controversial element of the policy is mounting evidence that suggests some of its cruellest flaws aren't accidental failings; the Tories may have deliberately built them in to the system to deter claimants.

Ash Wednesday: Why Is It so Expensive to Be Poor?

Utilities, tax, rent and work – charging people for poverty is an industry worth billions.

Homelessness Activists Occupy Tunnel, After MPs Ask for Gate to Stop Rough Sleepers

Sophie K Rosa

Over 320,000 people are homeless in Britain - up 169% since the Conservatives came to power. Yet 'hostile architecture' that keeps rough sleepers out of public spaces is on the rise. As the weather turns cold, a gate has just been installed in a Westminster underpass to lock homeless people out at night - allegedly after MPs complained about having to walk past them.

Universal Credit: Charity Food Banks Forced to Compensate for Failing Benefits System

Natalie Leal

With charity food banks forced to expand into the space left behind by a shrinking welfare state, we spoke to three women who rely on them.

Damp, Mould and Dying of Cold: Fuel Poverty in Austerity Britain

Clare Hymer

Every winter in Britain - come snow, storms and sub-zero temperatures - millions of low-income individuals and families are affected by fuel poverty. Meanwhile, little is done to curb the cartel-like behaviour of the ‘big six’ energy companies.

Novara Docs: The Bitter Fruit of Andalucia

Visible from space, the vast concentration of plastic greenhouses in Almeria supply more than half of Europe’s fruit and vegetables. An economic boom in this previously poor region of Andalucia has come at the expense of the African migrants who work in these greenhouses, under slave-like conditions. Approximately 200 workers live there during peak season. […]

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Ash Wednesday: What About the White Working Class?

Analysis: Did China Just End Extreme Poverty?

Aaron Bastani

Opinion: Long School Days Won’t Get Children up to Speed Post-Pandemic – Our Privately-Educated Overlords Should Know That

James McAsh

The Bastani Factor: “This Is the Worst Interview I’ve Ever Seen With a Politician”

Opinion: Sex and the City Is Back and I Couldn’t Help but Wonder: Will the Show Finally Throw Off Shackles of Capitalism?

Eleanor Penny

Novara Live: Meal Snatcher

Opinion: Trans People Aren’t ‘Chucking Bricks’, They’re Fighting to Survive

Aimee Armstrong

Opinion: An Unprecedented Economic Crisis Is About to Hit the Global South. We Must Cancel Debts Now

Grace Blakeley

Tory Candidate Faces Questions Over App That Charged Food Banks Hundreds of Pounds

Charlotte England & Craig Gent

Ash Wednesday: What Do London’s Rough Sleepers Think About the General Election?

GE2019: ‘Does Anyone Care?’ Teachers Are Asking You to Vote to End Child Poverty This Winter

James McAsh

Report: Universal Credit Is Riddled With Issues, but Have Some Flaws Been Deliberately Designed Into the System?

Natalie Leal

Ash Wednesday: Why Is It so Expensive to Be Poor?

Homelessness Activists Occupy Tunnel, After MPs Ask for Gate to Stop Rough Sleepers

Sophie K Rosa

Universal Credit: Charity Food Banks Forced to Compensate for Failing Benefits System

Natalie Leal

Damp, Mould and Dying of Cold: Fuel Poverty in Austerity Britain

Clare Hymer

Novara Docs: The Bitter Fruit of Andalucia

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Opinion: This Isn’t Just About Universal Credit – Our Entire Benefits System Is a Joke

Andrew Fisher

Ash Wednesday: What About the White Working Class?

Analysis: Did China Just End Extreme Poverty?

Aaron Bastani

Opinion: Long School Days Won’t Get Children up to Speed Post-Pandemic – Our Privately-Educated Overlords Should Know That

James McAsh

The Bastani Factor: “This Is the Worst Interview I’ve Ever Seen With a Politician”

Opinion: Sex and the City Is Back and I Couldn’t Help but Wonder: Will the Show Finally Throw Off Shackles of Capitalism?

Eleanor Penny

Novara Live: Meal Snatcher

Opinion: Trans People Aren’t ‘Chucking Bricks’, They’re Fighting to Survive

Aimee Armstrong

Opinion: An Unprecedented Economic Crisis Is About to Hit the Global South. We Must Cancel Debts Now

Grace Blakeley

Tory Candidate Faces Questions Over App That Charged Food Banks Hundreds of Pounds

Charlotte England & Craig Gent

Ash Wednesday: What Do London’s Rough Sleepers Think About the General Election?

GE2019: ‘Does Anyone Care?’ Teachers Are Asking You to Vote to End Child Poverty This Winter

James McAsh

Report: Universal Credit Is Riddled With Issues, but Have Some Flaws Been Deliberately Designed Into the System?

Natalie Leal

Ash Wednesday: Why Is It so Expensive to Be Poor?

Homelessness Activists Occupy Tunnel, After MPs Ask for Gate to Stop Rough Sleepers

Sophie K Rosa

Universal Credit: Charity Food Banks Forced to Compensate for Failing Benefits System

Natalie Leal

Damp, Mould and Dying of Cold: Fuel Poverty in Austerity Britain

Clare Hymer

Novara Docs: The Bitter Fruit of Andalucia

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