Tag: austerity

Senior judges from an Upper Tribunal have ruled that Theresa May's government has been acting illegally. And once again, those ...

While the media bangs on about Theresa May’s shoes, there’s a silent catastrophe going on in Tory Britain

by Fréa Lockley

A report released by child poverty action group Buttle UK on the 4 August warns that more children are "living in ...

In just four words, a former prison governor nails exactly why our jails are in crisis [AUDIO]

A former governor has nailed exactly why our prison system is in crisis in just four words. Speaking on Radio 4's Today ...

Watch Theresa May tell a barefaced lie to the victims of the Grenfell Fire [VIDEO]

Theresa May hoped we’d all be too busy with our summer holidays to notice this new privatisation row

Theresa May's government has been accused of using the summer holidays to sneak out the privatisation of a highly sensitive ...

The Tories have broken this promise four times already. Now Philip Hammond plans to make it five

by Bex Sumner

Chancellor Philip Hammond is planning to delay balancing Britain's books yet again, according to The Times. The paper reports : ...

After seven years of Conservative government, several UK regions are now the poorest in Northern Europe

by Kerry-Anne Mendoza

19 June 2022

Seven years after Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron promised "We're all in this together", the only two regions of the ...

If you lose a loved one to murder in Theresa May’s Britain, it could cost you £37,000

by Kerry-Anne Mendoza

19 June 2022

If you lose a loved one to murder in Theresa May's Britain, it could cost you £37,000. This story has ...

A dire warning from the Bank of England makes toppling the Tories Britain’s number one priority

by Kerry-Anne Mendoza

19 June 2022

The Bank of England has warned that Britain faces a personal debt mountain. While wages have risen only 1.5% in ...

The media has kept quiet about May’s grubby ‘golden handshakes’ to 20 Tory ministers. So we’re naming them

This week, the government quietly slipped out the "severance" payments made to ministers who departed government after Theresa May took ...

Jeremy Corbyn just came out guns-a-blazing over the BBC pay scandal [VIDEO]

Jeremy Corbyn has waded into the storm surrounding the BBC pay revelations. And the Labour leader pulled no punches, as ...

A Tory MP accused Jeremy Corbyn of lying. Funnily enough, here’s the proof he wasn’t [TWEETS]

A Conservative MP wrote to Jeremy Corbyn, accusing him of 'wrongly claiming' about cuts in her area. But there was ...

The boss of a homeless charity has been jailed. And what he did was nothing short of despicable.

The former head of a homeless charity has been jailed for five years by a court in Wales. But his ...

A police chief drops a heavy hint about the real reason for rising crime. And Theresa May won’t be happy.

A police chief has suggested that the impact of austerity might be one of the reasons behind the recent rise ...

A catastrophe at a primary school sums up the mess our education system is in

A primary school in Bristol stands as a damning testament to the mess England's education system is in. Because, in ...

We’ve found Theresa May’s ‘magic money tree’ and it just produced £2bn out of thin air

The Canary can reveal just where Theresa May's 'magic money tree' grew. And we're pretty sure that the site of ...

More chaos for Theresa May’s government, and this time it was right outside a senior Tory’s office [VIDEO]