Tag: austerity

In his autumn budget on 29 October, chancellor Philip Hammond announced that the "era of austerity is finally coming to ...

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 on 5 October, economics professor Richard D. Wolff destroyed the much-repeated right-wing myth that capitalism and democracy ...

A manifesto signed by Noam Chomsky and several other intellectuals speaks out against the global rise of the far right. ...

New figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) have revealed that the UK's net worth increased by £492bn in ...

On 29 August, the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) released a damning report on the effect of the government's decision ...

Northamptonshire County Council has fallen into a deep financial crisis. The council has subsequently voted to implement severe cuts to ...

A radical novelist's latest work has taken Margaret Thatcher's legacy and used it to create a hyper-dystopian vision of society; ...

Wages for the top earners in the UK have hit an average of £3.9m. But as wealth for those at the ...

Jack Monroe has expertly taken down a new 'poverty tourism' show featuring daughter of millionaire Tory peer Michelle Mone. Monroe ...

An investigation by The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) into Northampton Nightshelter has found that the homeless shelter had been ...

On 23 June 2016, the UK voted to leave the EU. Since then, Brexit negotiations have been in chaos. And now, a ...

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) secretary Esther McVey has once again proven how out of touch she is. ...

Work and pensions secretary Esther McVey just insulted millions more people. The damage she's wrought through the Department for Work ...

A new report by the Justice Committee within the House of Commons has shone a spotlight on legal aid. It ...

Parliament has closed for the summer. But before grabbing their buckets and spades and heading to the beach, the government ...

A doctor has claimed that government austerity is killing homeless people. The homeless death toll has soared in 2018, with ...