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Britain’s Debt Tsunami

New polling shows that 3 million people expect cost of living increases to push them into debt, joining 8.5 million people already struggling to repay – to avoid another disaster, it's time for a debt writedown.

How Sunak Lost His Sparkle

Rishi Sunak saw out the pandemic hailed by the media as a hero, but he was never a real friend to normal people – and his refusal to fight the cost of living crisis makes that fact unavoidable.

Lift the Public Bus Ban

Since 2017, local councils have been banned from setting up their own municipal bus companies. The government promised to review the ban a year ago – now, with our for-profit public transport in deepening crisis, it's time to deliver.

Justice for Scottish Miners

Hundreds of Scottish miners were wrongly convicted during the 1984-5 strike, and their lives and livelihoods destroyed as a result. Scotland now has a chance to right that wrong with both pardons and compensation – and must take it.

In the Shadow of Jeremy Kyle

For years The Jeremy Kyle Show shamed and demonised poor people, recasting social problems as individual failings. The programme might now be over, but the wildly unequal world it helped justify endures.

Vaccines for Public Health, Not Profit

The Vaccine Manufacturing and Innovation Centre was set up with £200 million in public money just four years ago. Now the Tories are now selling it off – and yet again risking public health to make a quick buck.