Buckingham Palace on benefits – and you’re paying!
The Queen has been awarded a whopping 66% pay rise to fund a £369m 10-year refit of Buckingham Palace, after the government agreed that…
Austerity
A brief thought on how Trump won
Donald J Trump is President-elect of the United States; If the dinosaurs made a sound when they went extinct, then his election is…
Struggling UK families attacked by Tory austerity. Again.
To many, the new benefit cap announced on Monday 7 November sounded like sensible fiscal policy. After all, even those in favour of a…
Another homeless person has been found dead on the streets of Milton Keynes
A homeless man has been found dead in his tent in Milton Keynes. He is the third homeless person to die on the…
Welcome to Tory Britain: a place of child poverty
Childhood poverty According to HM Revenue and Customs figures obtained by the Daily Mirror, the number of children living in low-income families rose…
The NHS funding shame: A cash-strapped hospital crowdfunds £400,000 to equip a ward
The cash-strapped Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS trust has set up a crowdfunding appeal in order to raise the £400,000 required to fully…
I, Daniel Blake: a tale of Dickensian cruelty in Tory Britain
The mismanagement of the UK economy by both New Labour and Tory governments that followed the global financial crash of 2008 led to…
Austerity is fuelling climate change
The crushing austerity politics of the UK is deeply unsettling: the wealthy section of society dominates the poorest. The UK, compared to other…