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  • 12 Apr 2013
    Day of action calls for military spending to be redirected

    Campaigners from 39 UK organisations will call for a shift in government spending on 15 April, the Global Day of Action on Military Spending (GDAMS)

  • 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.

  • 26 Jun 2012
    Charity condemns proposed housing benefit cuts

    The housing and homelessness charity Shelter has condemned Government proposals to remove housing benefit for under 25s.

  • 9 Mar 2012
    'Perfect storm' of cuts and unemployment increases homelessness

    Figures published by Department for Communities and Local Government show 48,510 households across England were accepted as homeless by local authorities in 2011

  • 2 Feb 2012
    Welfare politics: A 'morally disabled' government

    Disabled actor, writer and comedian Francesca Martinez, who has been outspoken in support of those challenging the impact on vulnerable people of the Welfare Reform Bill (WRB), put the matter powerfully and poignantly on the This Week TV politics show: the government, she said, is "morally disabled" in its approach to these issues and to the human effect of its policies.

  • 9 Dec 2011
    Government figures show that homelessness is up by 13%

    The number of households declared homeless so far this year is up by 13 per cent from the same period last year, according to Government figures out today.

  • 15 Oct 2011
    Violence on the steps of St Paul's

    Today (15 October) has seen a global day of action against corporate greed, financial mismanagement and government cuts, which has grown out of New York's 'Occupy Wall Street' demonstration.

  • 30 Jun 2011
    Local councils fear over cuts in housing benefit

    Local government councillors are worried they will be unable to cope with the strain on public services caused by cuts to housing benefit.

  • 28 Mar 2011
    The inauthenticity of Michael Gove

    Untruth is not always communicated in outright lies. There is a type of blinkered misapprehension which presents misleading and inauthentic concepts. None of us are immune to this failing and all of us need to keep it under informed scrutiny. But it often seems to come to the fore in politicians in a manner which does at the very least, raise questions as to their judgement and credibility.

  • 25 Mar 2011
    Cuts are about ideology, not the deficit

    The 2011 Budget offers useful cover for the central deceit of the government’s economic strategy, says Simon Barrow – which is that massive cuts in the public sector and in the local and national state are “unavoidable” and “necessary” to eliminate Britain’s massive deficit.