Breaking free.
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The UK economy is built on debt and too many households are drowning in it.
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Austerity policies cut Britain’s brief recovery from the financial short and brought recession, stagnation and growing poverty.
Transport in the palm of your hand.
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The UK pioneered smart cards such as Oyster. But now, experimentation is being stifled as cash-strapped councils struggle to deliver basic services.
Tally ho!
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The idea that welfare cuts galvanised Vote Leave risks identifying the wrong culprit.
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‘Hothouse Earth’ is not a sure thing – yet. Here’s what you can do about it.
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Increasing numbers of parents are being accused of child abuse.
Young people know what’s good for them.
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The move may be welcomed by politicians and youth workers, but by focusing on future outcomes, Labour’s plans repeat a well-worn pattern.
Should I stay or should I go?
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The Conservative party is so divided over Brexit that it may never recover. How ironic that it was the policies of the Cameron government that brought it about.
Protesters have set up road blocks to disrupt traffic and commerce along key streets in Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital.
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After weeks of protest in Haiti, sparked by a sudden rise in fuel prices, at least seven are dead and the prime minister is out. Foreign creditors pushed for the price hike as an austerity measure.
A sad fate for England’s bus service.
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An expert crunches the numbers to reveal just how bleak Britain’s bus crisis has become.
Britain’s first social supermarket: Community Shop in Goldthorpe, Yorkshire.
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Social supermarkets help those struggling from food poverty – but they mask our broken food system.
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The UK media failed to challenge the government narrative of austerity despite its failure to revive the economy.
Tony Blair visiting a children’s centre in Southampton in 2003.
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Sure Start centres are shutting or becoming ‘hubs’, but will they still provide the services which local families value and need?
Amber Rudd: under pressure over violent crime.
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The former Police and Crime Commissioner for Essex argues that more resources can help, but any available funds need to be spent by the right agencies in the right way.
Millennials have been hardest hit by cuts.
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Young people are poorer than older people in England and the wealth gap between the young and the old is on the rise.
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The UK government is shockingly apathetic about the fast rise in mortality in England and Wales.
Who will live longer?
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The audio version of a long read on stalling life expectancy in the UK.
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Food is just food … or is it?
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Can today’s crisis in mental health be seen as the result of neoliberalism, the 2007/08 financial crisis and the austerity policies that followed?
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In announcing free higher education, South African President Jacob Zuma, lobbed a populist hot potato at the ANC elective conference but it’s ordinary people whose fingers will be burnt.