Jamie Oliver needs to STFU when it comes to childhood obesity
Praise be to the god of celebrity chefs! Jamie Oliver is back with more of his lukewarm advice - all ...
Tag: poverty
Ladbrokes resorts to ‘scare tactics’ to protect the ‘crack cocaine’ of gambling
On 3 March, Ladbrokes threatened to withdraw sponsorship money from sporting events over proposed betting regulations. The government is consulting ...
Young Tories under fire for ‘joke’ that implies people dying in the cold is funny
Severe weather is still battering the UK and Ireland. Thousands don't have power. Transport is in chaos, and roads are closed. ...
The SNP hits out at the Tory academic who tried to lecture us about poverty
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.
On 24 February, Sky News published an interview with the founder of Beauty Banks, the personal hygiene product equivalent of a ...
The reality of food bank Britain is about to be exposed in a very public way
A critically acclaimed play is returning to the London stage for a one-off performance. But far from being about a ...
Roses are red, Tories are blue, dear DWP, a heartfelt f**k you…
Twitter users have sent the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) a heartfelt f**k you after the department, overseen by ...
Labour has issued a warning to the government over its ‘continued failure’ on fuel poverty
Labour has hit back at what it calls the government's "continued failure" to tackle the "broken energy market". It comes ...
First homelessness and now child poverty: the Labour council lurching from crisis to crisis
A Labour council is under growing pressure after the latest research into child poverty revealed it has the third highest ...
An elderly woman found wandering the streets alone sums up Tory Britain this winter
A 71-year-old woman found wandering the streets, alone and freezing cold, sums up Tory Britain. A country where fuel poverty, ...
Tories have relentlessly attacked a single mum who was forced to use food banks [VIDEO, TWEETS]
On 14 December, Samantha Thompson asked a poignant question about food banks on BBC Question Time. Conservative MP Nicky Morgan's response ...
Malnutrition, rickets and scurvy: this is what poverty in Tory Britain looks like [VIDEO]
There is evidence that conditions associated with extreme poverty and poor nutrition, such as rickets (main image) and scurvy, are ...
The government’s Christmas gift to Britain’s poorest children? Goodbye to free school meals.
A new Tory scheme could be more dire than we thought, as one million children in poverty may be even ...
Instead of charity, here’s how you can show ‘solidarity’ to homeless people in London this Christmas
A grassroots homelessness movement is organising what it says will be London's "largest homeless outreach" this Christmas. And in line ...
While all eyes were on Brexit, thousands of people scored a victory against the DWP [IMAGE]
On the same day that Theresa May was crashing and burning in parliament over Brexit, it emerged that her government ...
A devastating video from ITV News sums up the state of Tory Britain this Christmas [VIDEO]
A short film by ITV News has gone viral on social media. And the reason it's had such a response ...
The stark reality for nearly 4 million people is that work doesn’t pay [TWEETS]
A new report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) released on 4 December has shown that "14 million people live in ...
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