This Isn’t Just About Universal Credit – Our Entire Benefits System Is a Joke
Andrew Fisher
This is a much bigger problem than the £20 cut.
Tag: poverty
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.
Did China Just End Extreme Poverty?
Aaron Bastani
Not entirely, but it's virtually the only country to have made any progress.
Long School Days Won’t Get Children up to Speed Post-Pandemic – Our Privately-Educated Overlords Should Know That
James McAsh
“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?
Sex and the City Is Back and I Couldn’t Help but Wonder: Will the Show Finally Throw Off Shackles of Capitalism?
Eleanor Penny
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, […]
Trans People Aren’t ‘Chucking Bricks’, They’re Fighting to Survive
Aimee Armstrong
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
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.
‘Does Anyone Care?’ Teachers Are Asking You to Vote to End Child Poverty This Winter
James McAsh
Universal Credit Is Riddled With Issues, but Have Some Flaws Been Deliberately Designed Into the System?
Natalie Leal
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
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
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. […]