Tag: poverty

A new study has shown that extending GP appointments to 30 minutes was more cost effective than many prescription drugs. ...

TV and film director Ken Loach has a long and dignified record of sticking it to the man, criticising social ...

As the Queen celebrates her 90th birthday nearly 1 million over-75's are living below the poverty line in the UK, ...

Extreme weather events, armed conflict, and political turmoil has led to “food stress” for more than 240 million people in ...

Worthing Council has just pushed through controversial new rules that allow it to impose £50 fines on people who sleep ...

Disabled people are set to be plunged deeper into poverty as the Tories have forced through their proposals to cut ...

Laws are often invisible when injustice reigns, and an item’s illegality means nothing if it’s in demand. As long as ...

An act of kindness on the New York subway has touched the hearts of millions around the world. On Friday ...

It has been an interesting year in British politics. The Conservatives squeezed to victory in the general election, with less than ...

David Cameron’s 2007 vow to “make poverty history” is finally coming to fruition. In one fell swoop, child poverty as ...

There has been a drastic increase in people relying on local councils, rather than loved ones, to bury them when ...

World leaders have their work cut out for them at the climate negotiations this month if they want to save 100 ...

Mhairi Black has slammed exploitative ‘poverty porn’ and asks why TV puts the poorest among us on show as ‘benefits scroungers’, ...

Despite astronomical and spiralling costs of £15.8 billion, Iain Duncan Smith is pressing ahead with rolling out his flagship scheme ...

Crack and Cider, the "world's first shop for the homeless", will open in Hackney on Wednesday. Customers will be able ...

Despite deepening levels of poverty, Cornish communities are showing there are ways of creating alternatives to austerity and deprivation. One ...

David Cameron, when confronted with the impact of his government’s cuts program, has been mechanically repeating that ‘the best route ...