Tory minister for suicide prevention: ‘Like curing malaria with the plague’
It was an easy mistake to make. When I heard the Conservative government had appointed a minister for suicide prevention …
Category Archives: Poverty
Once we were a ‘nation of shopkeepers’. Now Gove wants us to be a ‘nation of bin-divers’
We owe a debt of thanks to nincompoops like Michael Gove; they make the Conservative government’s attitude to the rest …
Theresa May asked Labour supporters to look at her government afresh. They found a stain on their country
“We’ve had a so-called ‘Iron Lady’, but this one’s brass is tarnished beyond control.” That was just one of the …
4.5 million UK children in poverty? No wonder the Tories abolished anti-poverty targets!
“Tory Britain: – 14 million people including 4.5 million children living in poverty – 12% of total UK population living …
Biased news: There ARE more families with people in work – but poverty is at an all-time high
We are entitled to expect a better quality of reporting than this from the BBC: The proportion of households in …
Biggest rise in poverty recorded since Thatcher was in power – iNews
This is something to remember, next time a Tory minister gets up and says the economy is doing well and …
More than a million more children are in poverty since 2010 and the BBC won’t report it
The number of children growing up in poverty in working households is set to be one million (50 per cent) …
Vote Tory – if you want to put your children in poverty
The figures are self-explanatory: Child Poverty Rate (By Government):1974-79 Labour: 14% to 13% (-1%)1979-1997 Tory: 13% to 33% (+20%)1997-2010 Labour: …
Tory policies in action: Thousands of Wirral children are now in poverty
Get it into your heads, folks: Tories lie about their policies. They say your future is better with them in …
Holocaust Memorial Day tweet triggers hate-filled denial of disability-related deaths
My word. This Writer’s experience after Prime Minister’s Questions today demonstrates the danger of publishing unwise words – and I don’t …