This week the United Nations launched an inquiry into rising levels of poverty and hardship across the UK, exploring the human consequences of austerity cuts that have ravished parts of the country under the Conservative government. Philip Alston, the UN’s special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, will spend ...
I’m 64 next week and I feel the British Government has ruined my life. It has also ruined the lives of many more.
A homeless charity boss says she was told she wouldn't get Lottery cash - unless she stopped publicly criticising Universal Credit and the Government. Outspoken CEO Ellie Waugh, 53, applied for £130,000 from the Big Lottery Fund for charity Humanity Torbay. But she claims an official who came to assess ...
Justin Welby blasted Universal Credit, the Government's flagship welfare reform, and warned it had triggered "intense suffering." He said: "Universal credit, we know, was supposed to reform the benefit system, make it simpler and more efficient. It has not done that. We know that. "We know that it has left ...
It was a very lively exchange today between the two leaders, they have only been back a week, but they are now off on their jollies for the party conference season, may as well throw the kitchen sink at your opponent. Weirdly Jeremy Corbyn had some corn sticking out from ...
When George Osborne initiated sweeping austerity cuts in the wake of the financial collapse it soon became apparent that the arts would be the first on the chopping board. Unlike hospitals, policing and defence the creative sectors don’t have the immediacy or even the public sensitivity boasted by their counterparts, ...
It is rare that an event of such vast political magnitude allows domestic issues to be swept under the carpet, but along with the great wars it would seem Brexit has become one of the most significant camouflages in recent history. With the health service in disarray, public finances in ...
A new study had revealed that Government sanctions on benefit claimants have negative outcomes. The study of welfare conditionality discovered that the threat of sanctions, or the actual introduction of benefit cuts, did not help people get into work. The studies main finding is that “Benefit sanctions do little to ...
When we think of local charities, the image that springs to mind is often that of the village pump preservation society and their creaky wooden tombola. However, the reality is that local charities now provide the last, and often the only, line of support to many of our most marginalised ...