Tag: austerity

A headteacher has exposed the impact of cuts to school funding on children with the greatest needs. On 16 March, ...

Wales has just recorded a ‘very concerning’ rise in the number of disabled people in poverty

by Steve Topple

16 March 2018

The number of disabled people living in poverty in Wales has sharply increased since 2010 according to new research - with ...

It’s not just school dinners. Tory austerity policy will plunge another 1.5m children into poverty.

by Fréa Lockley

14 March 2018

On 14 March, a new report by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) examining the "cumulative impact of tax ...

A pro-Brexit group is exploiting the death of an old man to push its anti-immigrant agenda

by Sam Woolfe

12 March 2018

Westmonster, a Brexit-supporting website, published an article that blamed mass immigration for the fact that an 85-year-old man died in hospital ...

Labour’s Clive Lewis takes down the Tory minister who started a petition against local cuts

by Sam Woolfe

9 March 2018

Defence secretary Gavin Williamson is apparently concerned that his local council is cutting some of its bus services. So the Conservative MP ...

Listeners accuse Today programme host John Humphrys of making ‘misleading’ statements on austerity

Listeners to BBC Radio 4's Today programme are demanding a retraction and apology from host John Humphrys. They claim that he ...

Young Tories under fire for ‘joke’ that implies people dying in the cold is funny

by Fréa Lockley

2 March 2018

Severe weather is still battering the UK and Ireland. Thousands don't have power. Transport is in chaos, and roads are closed. ...

Vicky_©_PhotobyAndrew_Jackson_original and Martin Hunt Kellingley Colliery One of the last deep coal miners in the UK by Jon Tonks

A new project putting ‘the forgotten people of Britain at its heart’ needs your help

by Ed Sykes

5 March 2018

A new project aims to put "the forgotten people of Britain at its heart". But it needs your help to ...

Theresa May sent a ‘snowmageddon’ message to Britain and it went down like a cup of cold sick

If there is something the Conservative Party should have learned by now, it's that Theresa May is about as cuddly ...

Jeremy Hunt wins a ‘humanitarian award’ for patient safety. No, we’re not kidding.

by James Wright

26 February 2018

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has won an award for patient safety. And we're not joking. 'Global leadership....' At the 6th ...

The SNP hits out at the Tory academic who tried to lecture us about poverty

by Sam Woolfe

26 February 2018

In the run-up to the Scottish Conservative Conference, professor and MSP for Glasgow Adam Tomkins decided to lecture us on ...

We now have ‘beauty banks’ for poor people’s toiletries. We’ve got no dignity left.

by Steve Topple

27 February 2018

On 24 February, Sky News published an interview with the founder of Beauty Banks, the personal hygiene product equivalent of a ...

A Conservative councillor sparks controversy for saying residents on a deprived estate aren’t ‘grateful’

by Chris Jarvis

25 February 2018

A Conservative councillor in Oxfordshire has sparked controversy after comments about investment in an Oxford estate called Blackbird Leys. Gold-plated ...

Tins of food with a banner that says "Welcome to food bank Britain"

The reality of food bank Britain is about to be exposed in a very public way

by Steve Topple

24 February 2018

A critically acclaimed play is returning to the London stage for a one-off performance. But far from being about a ...

Four ways the BBC helped sell Tory austerity to the public

If you're trying to understand how the Conservative Party misled the public into supporting ideological austerity, the role of the ...

Conservatives say we can’t call them this word any more. Because it’s ‘a slur’.

According to some Conservatives, it is no longer acceptable to call them 'right-wing', despite this being an accurate assessment of ...

Roses are red, Tories are blue, dear DWP, a heartfelt f**k you…

by Fréa Lockley

14 February 2018