Working parents are starving for a week at a time because they aren’t paid enough to feed their children
It breaks This Writer’s heart to learn about the suffering of parents in my home town of Bristol, although I’m …
Category Archives: Cost of living
Food bank opens AT SCHOOL after famished children start stealing from lunchboxes
Now even children are being forced into crime by repressive Conservative government policies. Think it through: Schoolchildren are almost entirely …
PMQs drama: Corbyn outplays May – and her poodle press – by highlighting poverty
What kind of idiot thinks Jeremy Corbyn is going to waste Prime Minister’s Questions on Brexit when he’s supposed to …
December 3 was the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. If you didn’t know, that’s half the problem
As Samuel Miller states below, December 3 was a day of mourning in the United Kingdom. Tory austerity has killed …
Hypocritical Tories try gaslighting us with foodbank photocalls – but is something more serious behind it?
What is going on at the Trussell Trust? Britain’s biggest food bank charity was once one of the wolves at …
Reports on Brexit tell us the worst about May’s deal
Many people are confessing that they are confused about exactly what the different scenarios for Brexit mean. Is Mrs May’s …
Tories have DELIBERATELY increased poverty in the UK, according to UN inspector
The United Nations’ special rapporteur on poverty, Philip Alston, has said he believes the UK’s Conservative government deliberately increased poverty …
Did McVey resign to avoid dealing with UN report on poverty?
Let’s get this right: UN special rapporteur Professor Philip Alston is set to issue a preliminary statement on the connection …
Universal Credit: Who do you believe – Theresa May and Esther McVey, or a nine-year-old girl?
Let’s answer the question in the headline straight away: We believe the girl, obviously. Mrs May and Ms McVey are …
Hospital bosses more than DOUBLE parking charges. Labour vows to abolish them
Hospital parking charges are a shameful tax on patients, carers, families – and staff. Private parking companies are being allowed …