AUSTERITY
People Raised by Single Mums Explain What Home-Cooked Meals Meant to Them
“I was brought up on convenience foods. When you’ve got a parent who’s busy, they go to convenience and there’s nothing wrong with that.”
The Anti-Homeless Law That Scotland Scrapped But England Still Enforces
Why campaigners want to repeal the "Vagrancy Act".
Theresa May Was Right: Knife Crime Isn't the Police's Fault; It's the Government's
In austerity Britain, say experts, the dramatic rise of violent crime is no surprise.
Inside Britain's Escalating Missing Persons Problem
With austerity widening society's cracks, the number of people reported missing in London alone has increased 77 percent since 2010.
Students Hanged Dummies Off Westminster Bridge to Highlight the UK's Ongoing Mental Health Crisis
All 20 of the students involved had either attempted or considered suicide before the age of 18.
Outrage Ensues After Tory MPs Cheerfully Pose for Photos at Food Banks
“Your party's policies have caused the need for food banks in the first place.”
What’s Gone on This Week: A Bleak Black Friday Special!
Disgraceful new figures on homelessness and young people's mental health, for starters. TL;DR: capitalism is no good. Rip it up and start again.
A Message to the Man Investigating Poverty in the UK
Lewisham's 15-year-old Young Mayor Elect speaks out on the causes of knife crime.
Years of Austerity Have Created a Welfare State for the Middle Class
Welfare now means a safety net for the comfortable and social cleansing for the poor.
Austerity Isn't 'Ending': the Government Still Wants to Discipline the Poor
Today's budget saw some money spent here and there, but the ideological underpinning of austerity remains.
Britain’s Deficit is a Lesson For Canada
Canadian voters now rank “the deficit” as a primary concern. But the last time a country embarked on a deficit-reduction plan, hundreds were left jobless.
How Austerity Has Affected Our Psychological Wellbeing
Researchers have found that suicide rates have risen by 20 percent in the areas most affected by the Conservative party's austerity policies.