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Sackings and benefits sanctions have left ever more people struggling to pay their rent. The Tories’ plan to end a ban on evictions in September—meaning thousands could be thrown out

Wildfires have caused devastation across northern California with a state of emergency declared across the US state.

The government has not conquered coronavirus, and its failed policies are increasing the risk of a deadly second wave.

The super-rich are ­buying citizenship in countries with lower coronavirus rates in order to protect their health.

Britain is heading for unemployment levels “not seen since the Great Depression of the 1930s”, a think tank has warned. It comes after the economy officially entered a recession.

 

The government’s estimate of the number of people in England who have died from coronavirus was last week reduced by more than 5,000—leading to a wave of suspicion that it was an attempt to manipulate the figures.

Job losses aren’t just about coronavirus. Sarah Bates says we need to fight for jobs and against a system that destroys them

Class is trashing the lives of hundreds of thousands of students. The ­downgrading of swathes of A-Level students’ grades in England and Wales has exposed how the system operates to keep working class people in check. 

Overpriced, pre-packaged sandwiches shouldn’t be a matter of life and death, but for Greencore factory workers that could be the case.

The downgrading of student A-Level results across England and Wales is a disgraceful attack that has to be resisted.

Poor people are in a food crisis—with many showing “early signs” of malnutrition.