Poverty

One in six working households below poverty line, says new report
News

Growth won’t tackle poverty, says top charity

New report by the respected Joseph Rowntree Foundation demolished Labour's central mission
29 January 2025
Labour

Protest against Labour’s winter fuel payment cuts

Plus: Starmer’s child poverty shame
07 October 2024
Child poverty will stay in crisis under a Labour government (Picture: Jeffrey L. Meyer)
Letters

Letters—Don’t trust Keir Starmer to clean up Tory poverty mess

Plus letters on students' call for support and avoidable deaths of migrant workers
02 July 2024
Children in a classroom as child poverty rises in Britain
News

Number of children in poverty in Britain is rocketing

Its rising at its highest rate for 30 years
11 May 2024
Protesting for Palestine in Egypt
International

Egyptian people are ‘desperate and furious’ at repressive regime

Will the slaughter in Gaza see Egypt rise?
24 April 2024
The Troublemaker

Pay for the privilege of your protest being ruled illegal

Crushing legal fees add to the repressive armoury
03 October 2023
News

Food banks run out as poverty rockets

Two new surveys on poverty
28 September 2023
Protest outside the High Court as investigation begins into undercover policing in protest groups. Picture
The Troublemaker

Scandal of undercover cops who are still abusing women

Troublemaker looks at the week's news
12 September 2023
International

Poor hit hardest after Morocco earthquake as rulers delay response

Delays from state cost lives
11 September 2023
Billionaires rule the City of London
In Depth

New report into billionaires reveals the ugly pyramids of wealth

A new report delves into the global rich
27 August 2023
A pawnbrokers building
The Troublemaker

Super-profits for those that trade in other people’s misery  

Troublemaker looks at the week's news
22 August 2023
News

Reject bad pay deals after new inflation figures

Reject below inflation deals
21 June 2023
News

Rich list shows billionaires plunder while millions are thrown into poverty – updated

No cost of living crisis for the super-rich
19 May 2023
International

Majority of Afghans live in poverty, US aid cuts to blame

34 million in poverty, population 40 million
20 April 2023
wind turbine government Tories
News

Government fails to meet wind power targets

The National Grid is badly equipped
11 April 2023
News

Hating the poor, hating refugees—a very Tory mix

Resist Tory divide and rule tactics
03 March 2023
Placard reads, "Freeze prices not the poor."
News

Treasury energy bill rise to push more into destitution

But energy companies make record profits
27 February 2023
Folkestone Road in Dover was once a street of the wealthy. Today it is run down and shabby, with faded paint guest houses in poor repair
In Depth

Dover: Who gets the blame?

Racism does not dominate Dover
26 February 2023
News

Downing Street ‘death march’ as excess winter death figures published

13,400 additional deaths in 2021-22
19 January 2023
An economic war is raging in Britain
News

Food prices soar at record rate

Food prices at 13.3 percent in December
04 January 2023
Letters

Letters—Remember when MPs called Tories ‘murderers’

Others could take inspiration
03 January 2023
poverty Tories
Comment

Millions frozen by rising costs and Tory cruelty

Million will go without this winter
12 December 2022
Don't Pay UK fighting agianst rising bills
News

Poorest homes freezing as government’s bills scheme fails

Some 1.3 million vouchers haven't been used
06 December 2022
News

Bank of England’s interest rate rise will hit workers the hardest

Interest rates rise to 3 percent
03 November 2022