Last year, millions of people across Britain faced food poverty as queues at food banks reached record levels. The cost of living crisis will see those numbers grow – and the Chancellor's failure to intervene is a national disgrace.
Britain's co-operative and 'social enterprise' sector has the potential to be a real alternative to neoliberalism – but today, it is often captured within the same free market dogma it might replace.
Today, Rishi Sunak had a chance to tackle the cost of living crisis. Instead, he has left the average family around £1,000 worse off than last year – the biggest fall in living standards since records began.
While energy bills skyrocket by £700 for the average household, oil giants are making billions of pounds in profits. The solution is clear: tax the corporate profiteers and cut bills for the rest of us.
This week, Grace and Alfie Stirling, Chief Economist of the New Economics Foundation, look ahead to the Chancellor's spring statement – which looks set to contain very few of the measures needed to tackle the cost of living crisis.
Today, billionaire Chancellor Rishi Sunak will tell us he 'understands' the plight of millions facing a cost of living crisis. If he truly wanted, he could avert the coming wave of poverty and hardship – here's how.
In the middle of a cost of living crisis, the Tory government has made Britain the only major economy to hike taxes on workers. The reason is simple – they are determined to protect the profits of the rich.
In recent weeks, the Tories have been pretending to support refugees – but their Nationality and Borders Bill, which is being voted on tonight, is the harshest crackdown on migrant rights in decades.
In 2010, 60,000 food bank packages were handed out in Britain. Last year, it was 2.5 million. This is the result of political choices – and the cost of living crisis will see millions more fall into food poverty.
As the cost of living crisis bites, millions of elderly people in Britain are fighting to get by on the lowest state pension in the industrialised world. It's a situation the Chancellor could change this week, if he wanted to.
In the decades of fascism and war, W. H. Auden’s poetry attacked a depraved elite who brought the world to the brink of catastrophe. Today, his words and warnings have lost none of their original power.
Record fuel prices have left millions struggling to pay for travel. Public transport can be the alternative – but only if years of Tory privatisation and underfunding are reversed.