Environment
Poorest families have borne brunt of housing crisis, think-tank says
The Resolution Foundation said that for the poorest families, the proportion of income spent on housing has more than doubled since 1980.
Disabled IT teacher wins £85,000 compensation after posh boarding school sacks him
Darren Walker worked for Old Swinford Hospital School which charges pupils £12K-a-year
Scientists around the world declare ‘climate emergency’
The declaration, based on analysis of more than 40 years of publicly available data, came as Donald Trump officially left the Paris Climate Accord and Boris Johnson failed to honour Parliament’s own ‘Climate Emergency’ vote.
Hundreds of prisoners leaving jail homeless, reports warn
The chief inspector of prisons said 47% of the inmates were released from HMP Cardiff with no accommodation to go to, during a six-month period.
US starts withdrawal from Paris climate pact
With a hand-delivered letter, the US is the first nation to pull out of the deal. Agreement rules prevented any country from pulling out in the first three years after ratification on November 4 2016.
Boris Johnson fails to honour Parliament’s climate emergency vote
The missed target comes as an opinion poll revealed that most Brits say climate change will influence their general election.
John McDonnell calls out banks and hedge funds ‘financing climate change’
Labour has also gone on the attack on Boris Johnson after the government failed to bring urgent plans to tackle the climate and environment emergency in time to meet the six month deadline set by parliament.
Fracking halted over earthquake fears as General Election looms
Labour said the Tories owed the communities whose wishes had been ignored an apology, and the public "an explanation of how much public money they wasted while ignoring the science."
‘How can any govt contemplate sending more people to prison’ – Violence continues to soar
Self-harm incidents behind bars reached a record 60,594 in the 12 months to June 2019, official figures show.