Tag: austerity

As housing moves up the general election agenda, one property for sale sums up the sorry state of the homes ...

Jeremy Corbyn managed to touch a public nerve with just one tweet [VIDEO]

After the last Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) before the upcoming general election, Jeremy Corbyn made a very bold statement on ...

The Conservative Party has been caught up in yet another breathtaking show of hypocrisy [TWEETS]

The Conservative Party has been caught up in yet another storm, this time involving a photo opportunity that backfired rather ...

A woman using food banks breaks down on live TV: ‘I need to let the nation know what it’s like’

by James Wright

Tracey Culham broke down on national television on 25 April. Speaking about using food banks on Victoria Derbyshire, she said ...

A top comedian has warned of a threat we’re ignoring if the Tories get elected again [IMAGES]

On Saturday 22 April an award winning comedian addressed a crowd of thousands of people in the centre of London. ...

A private NHS contractor has gone bankrupt. And in doing so it sums up the Tories’ health policies

The bankruptcy of a private NHS contractor has left staff out of pocket and the health service scrabbling around ...

People are actually sleeping in bins in Tory Britain. And it’s only going to get worse.

by Sam Woolfe

According to waste management firm Biffa, homeless people are risking their lives by sleeping in bins. In 2016, Biffa said ...

The NHS is being forced to borrow ‘toxic’ cash from Tory donor hedge funds to prevent ‘serious injury’ to patients

The NHS is having to borrow £10bn in 'toxic' loans to repair hospitals, to avoid "catastrophic failures" and "serious injury" ...

People are calling for the legalisation of drugs. But it won’t be enough [OPINION]

The campaign for the legalisation of recreational drugs is gathering pace. Groups like Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP UK) and ...

DWP deliberately ‘covers up’ figures showing how it’s screwing over disabled people

by Sam Woolfe

The Disability News Service has released data from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) showing that nearly half (45%) of ...

Never mind the Easter egg fiasco. Theresa May just snuck out a new attack on the poor [IMAGES]

While the PM was embroiled in fake Easter egg news, the government quietly released another one of its initiatives to ...

A lawyer has handed the Prime Minister some uncomfortable news [VIDEO]

Theresa May’s been caught up in fake Easter egg news. But a lawyer has a reality check for her [VIDEO]

On Tuesday 4 April, Theresa May waded into an ongoing row between Cadbury and the Church of England. It was ...

You may well have missed it, but the 2008 bank bailout just bit us all in the arse again

On Monday 3 April, the Conservative government announced it had sold more of the public's shares in Lloyds Banking Group. ...

It’s official: austerity will hit families harder than ever imagined

by Sophia Akram

As reported in The Canary, five different benefit cuts introduced by ex-Chancellor George Osborne will come into effect this week. ...

A lawyer has handed the Prime Minister some uncomfortable news [VIDEO]

On Friday 31 March, the government announced the sale of £11.8bn of public assets to a firm accused of serial ...

The Daily Mail ‘accidentally publishes a front page from 1968’ [IMAGES]

The Daily Mail has created a furore with its latest front page. The Tuesday 28 March edition of the right-wing tabloid ...

I went behind-the-scenes at a pro-EU march. But was everyone united? [VIDEO]