30% of people in Wales are set to spend Christmas in ‘Dickensian’ conditions
Around three-quarters of a million people in Wales (30%) are living in cold damp homes; exposed to the health complications ...
Tag: inequality
People have taken action UK-wide over fuel poverty – with a south London protest drawing unwanted attention
Campaign groups Fuel Poverty Action, Unite Community, and their allies held nationwide protests this weekend, carrying out ‘Warm Ups’ to ...
A south London shopping centre is going to be the centre of a protest over energy bills
A protest over fuel poverty is set to take place in one of south London's highest-profile shopping centres, the Glades. ...
Fuel poverty will be the subject of nationwide occupations this December as a campaign group ‘warms up’ its actions
Fuel Poverty Action is planning ‘Warm Up’ protests across the country on Friday 1 and Saturday 2 December, working with ...
Today’s inflation figures mean nothing: food prices rocket 30% in 2.5 years while the Tories eye benefit cuts
Inflation has fallen to 4.6% - down from 6.7% in September, official figures now show. However, a think tank has ...
Five million people driven into poverty by transport costs, a new report from a think tank warns
Transport costs are keeping five million people (8% of the UK population) below the poverty line, a think tank has ...
Fuel Poverty Action knocks loudly on the government’s door over prepayment meters
Campaign group Fuel Poverty Action held a protest outside the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DfES) on Wednesday ...
The North-South divide in fuel poverty narrows as more people in Southern England experience fuel poverty
New data shows from think tank the Open Data Institute (ODI) has revealed that the North-South divide in fuel poverty ...
‘Brutal and arrogant’ Tories lifting the bankers’ bonus cap has nothing to do with the economy
Rishi Sunak's Tory government has approved the lifting of the cap on bankers' bonuses. This means that the rule which ...
The Tories have presided over a 148% increase in destitution – with the DWP being the main problem
Successive Conservative governments have presided over a 148% increase in destitution since 2017. Destitution is classed as the most severe ...
Victorian-era diseases like rickets are on the rise again thanks to Tory-created poverty
Rickets - a disease associated with Victorian-era slums - is on the rise in Scotland, while other conditions linked to ...
With Sir Kid Starver keeping the two-child limit, Labour is supporting Eugenics
Social media has been in uproar over now-renamed Keir Starmer's announcement that the Labour Party will keep the two-child limit ...
People’s Assembly blames ‘profiteering’ supermarkets for worsening child poverty crisis
With the school holidays set to begin in the UK, the issue of child poverty has once again come to ...
Firms like British Gas have been breaking into people’s homes since the 1950s
The media and politicians are shocked to find out British Gas has been breaking into customers' homes to install prepayment ...
New info shows the cost of living crisis hits poor people the hardest
As the cost of living crisis continues, new research has told poor people what they already knew: that financially, they're ...
A shop’s Christmas window display is a damning look at the cost of living crisis
A shop in West Sussex has used its Christmas window display to take aim at the Tory government over the ...
Don’t let the BBC fool you – inflation hasn’t fallen for the poorest people
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said on Wednesday 14 December that inflation had fallen to 10.7% in November. This ...
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