Events

Working too long is killing you

Emily Scurrah writes for Tribune

World Earth Day... and a future without coal?

Let's demand that politicians secure a fossil-fuel-free future for all

World Fisheries Day: the grim prognosis for fishing post-Brexit

Promises made to the UK's small boats are likely to prove hollow

Yannis Dafermos

You can’t level up without a Green New Deal

Our government wants to be known for two things: levelling up, and fighting the climate crisis. But they don’t really understand how the two are connected.

Youth membership of unions grows amidst decades of decline

Despite the recent uptick, the proportion of 16-19 year olds who are members of a union has halved since 1995

Zero Carbon Britain 2030

A new energy strategy

£1.2 million of Walthamstow residents' high interest debt cancelled

This project sheds light on the shadowy market where our debt is bought and sold

£115m of Budget cash for social care will go to investors in five biggest firms

The private investors profiting from public funds

£13 a day for people isolating due to Covid-19

Alfie Stirling on LBC

£23bn - the hidden annual bonus for Britain’s banks

Banks creaming billions a year from UK taxpayer in 'money for nothing' subsidy

£3.5bn real terms cuts to unprotected budgets after 2020

Analysis from the New Economics Foundation shows that unprotected budgets will still face cuts after 2020 despite austerity “coming to an end”

£9bn more could be raised through govt’s Energy Profits Levy to ease families’ bills this winter, as prices and profits continue to rise

Increasing govt’s Energy Profits Levy by 20% and removing loopholes would raise £14.3bn overall and £9.3bn more than the government’s previous estimates, over the next 12 months

‘Innovating’ our way into disaster

Big business is using the language of progress to strip away consumer protections

‘Who cares if Miami is six metres underwater in 100 years?’

A senior banker’s comments show we can’t rely on banks to respond to the climate crisis

“Brexit offers nothing but false solutions”

New Economics Foundation response to Article 50

“Flattering to deceive” – New Economics Foundation response to PM’s housing pledges

Communities must be at the heart of decision-making over what gets built, and where

“Take responsibility for your own health”: naivety or convenient excuse?

Asking people to eat more broccoli won’t change the UK’s health inequalities.