The Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) recently reported that working class families with parents in low-earning jobs cannot afford even basic necessities. Basic necessities are those costs that families simply cannot survive without: food, clothing, rent, utilities, etc. This report, unsettling though it may be, can hardly be surprising Read more…
Burberry is the latest multinational corporation to have incinerated millions of pounds worth of their own stock – £28.6 million to be precise. The luxury fashion brand burned bags, clothes, and perfume in a bid to maintain its brand image and reputation. Incinerating stock is apparently less damaging to Read more…
The recent heatwave has allowed the water line to drop low enough to fully reveal the wretched monsters that lurks beneath the surface of the stinking sewer that is the UK’s privatised water industry. So what is to be done to deal with the repulsive leeching beasts who have Read more…
Picture this: the year is 1018 and you’re the court jester for some provincial lord. You perform amusing tricks for him, and if you do a good job he might toss you some scraps from his table. He sleeps well, having exhibited such charity. You sleep on a flee-infested Read more…
The principal of King’s College London has contacted all students warning that respect for “freedom of expression” will be upheld at the university – through curtailment of the right to protest. The university’s new measures to ‘promote free speech’ implicitly reference a recent incident that occurred during a lecture Read more…
It was announced last week that Prof Koen Lamberts will become the University of Sheffield’s new Vice-Chancellor. Of course, the decision was made without the involvement of workers or students. Lamberts is one of many senior careerists within higher education who slinks from one cushy position to another. During Read more…
On 9 June 2018 several thousand supporters of the far-right figure Tommy Robinson marched in London. They dwarfed the counter-protest that had been called against them. For a full analysis of that event see here. On 14 July 2018 another far-right demonstration is being planned. This time we must be Read more…
Series 2 of Britain’s Forgotten Men has been aired recently on BBC3 and is a rare account of the harsh realities of the lives of working-class people around the Manchester area. It’s unusual for the BBC to focus a documentary on working-class communities and their plight as a result of Read more…
Stressed out teachers are leaving the profession in droves. An overhaul of GCSEs has led many students to feel suicidal. And declining conditions are hitting university staff. The British education system is in crisis left, right and centre. Young people are bearing the brunt of this crisis with ever-mounting debts Read more…
Even by the dismal standards of the Conservative Party, the actions of Christchurch MP, Sir Christopher Chope, reached a new low the other day. Chope managed to block a proposed bill to make upskirting (the act of taking unsolicited pictures up women’s skirts) illegal. Chope claimed that he objected not Read more…
Earlier this month it was reported that a Tory MP stated publicly that “black people…are more likely to be murderers”. This is the kind of racist filth that runs Britain today. Tory MP Philip Davies, who has repeatedly derailed legislation to protect victims of domestic violence and recently blocked a Read more…
If you could put a price tag on ‘eternal’ and ‘inalienable’ human rights, how much would they cost? For the Evening Standard newspaper, edited by former Tory Chancellor George Osborne, freedom of the press appears to be worth a grand total of £3 million. This is what we learned this week when Read more…
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