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  • 2 Nov 2012
    Food event a vital opportunity to tackle causes of hunger, says Christian Aid

    Christian Aid has welcomed the announcement of a UK event in 2013 on food and hunger, which currently afflicts some 870 million people globally.

  • 29 Oct 2012
    Progressio challenges David Cameron on post-2015 development goals

    Development agency Progressio is calling on PM David Cameron to listen to the voices of the world's poorest in upcoming poverty discussions.

  • 16 Oct 2012
    Political speeches and the true 'greatness' of a nation

    Writing in the Observer on 14 October, the paper's chief political correspondent Andrew Rawnsley presented readers with a composite of the speeches given by the leaders of the three main parties at their recent conferences. It is an amusing swipe at the banalities and dog-whistles of political rhetoric, which you can read here: http://bit.ly/UVtj78 but it is also a reminder of something ugly and delusional which underlies that rhetoric.

  • 11 Oct 2012
    Families, fortunes and David Cameron

    The government wants “To set our country back on the path to prosperity that all can share in” and “mend a broken society”, claimed UK Prime Minister David Cameron at the Conservative Party conference on 10 October. Despite national policies inflicting deepening misery on the poorest in society, and promises by his ministers of more of the same, he was seeking to portray his leadership as compassionate and inclusive.

  • 29 Jun 2012
    Charities urge Prime Minister to reconsider housing benefit cut for under 25s

    Ten charities have signed a joint letter to the Prime Minister in response to proposals to cut housing benefit for under 25s.

  • 28 Jun 2012
    The sharp edges of poverty

    “Money pads the edges of things” says Helen Schlegel, a character in EM Forster's Howards End. And where there is no padding, those edges can be very sharp indeed.

  • 26 Jun 2012
    Prime Minister’s strange claims on Disability Living Allowance

    In a speech urging further cuts to welfare, UK Prime Minister David Cameron once again tried to win support by making out that those receiving benefits have too easy a time. He claimed that, of those receiving Disability Living Allowance, “incredibly, half of new claimants never had to provide medical evidence”. This is indeed incredible, in the sense that it should not be believed.

  • 15 Apr 2012
    David Cameron's 'arms sales trip to Asia' condemned by CAAT

    Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) has condemned David Cameron's latest arms sales trip to Asia, especially his attempts to sell more weapons to Indonesia

  • 25 Mar 2012
    Urgent action needed on lobbying and party funding after Cameron revelations

    Action not bluster is needed from the government on "Cash for Cameron" questions, says a major UK campaign for political reform.

  • 21 Jan 2012
    Behind the weak rhetoric of 'responsible capitalism'

    While David Cameron and Ed Miliband continue to support relentless growth and minor amendments to the economic system, the inequalities inherent in that system will prosper, says Jonathan Bartley. A more thoroughgoing critique and real alternatives are needed.