The French government could well be on the verge of a full-scale public sector uprising
France is experiencing its worst civil unrest for generations as the so-called 'yellow vests' ("gilets jaunes") protest against the government and ...
Tag: austerity
Labour nails the government over the mental health crisis on Question Time
In another week dominated by Brexit, it appeared the government might be able to avoid the many other problems it's ...
Watch Barry Gardiner ambush Robert Peston with the host’s true colours, on his own show
On 28 November, Labour’s Barry Gardiner ambushed Robert Peston with a tweet showing some of the host's own true colours. ...
Here’s how much money DWP claimants lost under austerity
Households reliant on Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) benefits and HMRC tax credits have been hit hardest by austerity. This ...
A Daily Mail hack can’t work out what’s happening with our public services. Twitter schooled him fast.
Daily Mail hack Andrew Pierce is a bit confused. As someone who works for a paper that's spent years sycophantically drooling ...
Labour’s Chris Williamson nails why we urgently need a general election
Labour MP Chris Williamson has just given a powerful reminder of why we so urgently need a general election and ...
A Question Time audience member shames David Dimbleby into asking a damning question about the Tory government
A Question Time audience member made a powerful observation on 22 November. And it unwittingly forced David Dimbleby to ask ...
Amid Brexit chaos, a damning UN report says extreme UK poverty is a Tory ‘political choice’
On 16 November, Philip Alston – the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights – concluded an investigation into the impact of ...
A devastating UN report just buried what’s left of Theresa May’s government
Philip Alston, Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights for the United Nations, released findings from his UK visit ...
The Guardian’s coverage of the UN visit is pathetic
You may well have read about the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty Philip Alston's visit to the UK. But ...
UN investigator slams UK government for forcing food banks to keep ‘picking up the pieces’
UN investigator Philip Alston is currently touring the UK to assess the scale of damage that Conservative-led austerity has caused ...
People are sharing the truth about extreme UK poverty as the mainstream media lets them down
On 5 November, Philip Alston - the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights - started an investigation into the impact of ...
A UN investigation into UK poverty receives a record amount of evidence
On 5 November, Philip Alston, the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty & Human Rights started an investigation into the impact of austerity ...
Here’s why the idea austerity is coming to an end is total, utter nonsense
In his autumn budget on 29 October, chancellor Philip Hammond announced that the "era of austerity is finally coming to ...
Here’s the most hilarious, spot-on reactions to David ‘bored sh*tless’ Cameron’s rumoured return
Ex-prime minister David Cameron is feeling "bored shitless". So, he's apparently contemplating a return to politics, as foreign secretary no ...
With one tweet, an economics professor blows capitalism’s ‘democracy’ myth to pieces
With one tweet on 5 October, economics professor Richard D. Wolff destroyed the much-repeated right-wing myth that capitalism and democracy ...
In one sentence, Noam Chomsky helps expose how fascists are taking power around the world
A manifesto signed by Noam Chomsky and several other intellectuals speaks out against the global rise of the far right. ...
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