Eight steps to cut economic growth, by George Osborne MP
1. Encourage savings and inheritance Encouraging people to pass on their wealth unused to the next generation is a great way to reduce the amount of money flowing through the…
Budget Day Strikes – support the PCS today
It's budget day. Again. Once more, George Osborne will stand up on his hind legs and assault the people of Britain. And once more, the Public and Commercial Services Union…
Now Labour support law to deny compensation to victims of unlawful Workfare
Take action: this Bill is before the Commons TODAY (Tuesday 19 March). Caroline Lucas' office has confirmed to us that a group of MPs will be trying to push it…
Labour party backs bedroom tax
Here is Labour frontbencher Helen Goodman confirming that her party supports the 'Bedroom Tax'. The charge, a deduction from benefits for anyone who lives in social housing and who has…
Community finance: Where’s our Cathy Come Home moment?
In 1966 the film Cathy Come Home depicted the struggle of a once happy family thrown into poverty and misery after father and husband Reg is injured and loses his…
Alan Milburn was paid by NHS privateers while still an MP
This isn't new information, but it was new to me. This Guardian article from two years ago says that, when he was still an MP, Alan Milburn was getting £25-30k…
What does UEA have against protesters?
By Elliot Folan Earlier this month, the University of East Anglia dropped a disciplinary case against two students for taking part in an anti-tax avoidance protest. I was one of…
Trust
By Mike Small There’s been a lot of talk about ‘re-establishing trust’ in the food system. But that’s probably the last thing we need to be doing. What we’re living…
tours of Greece: Life and Debt in Thessaloniki
By Nick Dearden - this blog first appeared on the website of the Jubilee Debt Campaign, of which he is director. Nick is currently in Greece on a fact finding…
Huge quantities of public money propping up big oil, new report shows
Big oil companies are plundering the public purse. As the government pushes through vast cuts to the services for which we pay our taxes, oil companies are benefiting from taxpayer…