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Reclaim the Future event calls for debate on austerity
Since the financial crisis broke in 2008 we have seen a rising tide of protest, revolutions and resistance across the globe. One of the driving forces of these movements has been a desire to change...
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Report: Osborne’s proposals won’t affect tax avoidance
A new report released this week by War on Want reveals that the centrepiece of the government’s plans to tackle tax abuse will have no impact on the tax avoided by Amazon, Google and Starbucks. The...
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BBC Newsround apologise for ‘inaccurate’ Gaza film
BBC Newsround has apologised to the London-based Council for Arab-British Understanding (Caabu) after it submitted a complaint highlighting severe factual inaccuracies in a video report broadcast on...
View ArticleWatch: Simpsons on Obama and ‘Fiscal Cliff’
The Simpsons’ perpetual villain Montgomery Burns explains why the Fiscal Cliff is bad for rich people. Genius. (via pdacosta)
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Most Brits say their wages have fallen recently
A new poll of Britons in full and part time work shows that 71% of employees – around 21 million workers – say their wages have fallen in real terms over the last two years. Worse, 83% of working...
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Nick Clegg: time to re-think war on drugs
Nick Clegg has written a comment piece in The Sun newspaper today saying “it’s time to re-think drugs”. It will be interesting to see if it affects policy. He declared the war on drugs a disastrous...
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Poll shows voters blame banks for British economy
Who is to blame the for austerity and cuts to public services and social security? Most polling companies only offer voters the choice between this Tory government and the last Labour government. But...
View ArticleJulian Assange is back! …with a Christmas message
In the cold London weather last night, Julian Assange stepped out into the balcony of the Ecuadorian Embassy yesterday and gave this Christmas speech. He read the prepared remarks to about 80...
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Report: paying a Living Wage could save UK billions
The analysis from the Resolution Foundation and the IPPR think tanks to be published early in the new year is the most detailed examination of the potential impact of the living wage on the public...
View ArticleProtest over gang-rape, at Indian embassy in London
The campaigning and support group Southall Black Sisters are holding a demonstration in front of the Indian High Commission this Monday 7th Jan, over the Delhi gang-rape. They announced today the...
View ArticleTeenagers fined for ‘kitten abuse’ video on Facebook
Two teenage girls, aged 15 and 16, were fined and given a nine-month referral order after a video they posted on Facebook was referred to the police. The video showed the two flinging an eight-week-old...
View ArticleJon Stewart finds Murdoch’s anti-American network
This week, The Daily Show host Jon Stewart mocked the ‘four hour erection’ of Fox News over Al Gore’s sale of Current TV. The comedian ended up using their own criticisms to slam the owner of Fox News,...
View ArticleWatch: HMV workers in Ireland occupy shop over pay
HMV workers in Ireland who worked over Christmas were still unpaid this week as HMV announced that it was going into administration. So while management consultants and top bosses were still being...
View ArticleWatch: Meacher gives great speech on ATOS assessments
Yesterday, the Labour MP Michael Meacher was given time in the House of Commons to have a debate about ATOS and its assessments regime, in particular with regards to disabled people. Here is the speech...
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Gob-smacking photos from Russia’s snowpocalypse
Over the past week Russia has been practically buried under the snow. In some cases, remote settlements and towns have become completely isolated and cut-off due to the snow. On Friday, Moscow was on a...
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4m workers could be helped by ‘Living Wage cities’
The government should help small and medium firms to pay their workers a living wage by committing public savings to cities which take the lead in tackling low pay, according to a major new study...
View ArticleWhy a Briton changed her mind on Muslims
This letter sent to ThisisLeicestershire.co.uk was brought to our attention by a reader. It’s a nice read and worth highlighting, we thought. (An open letter to the community of the Masjid Umar mosque...
View ArticleThree brilliant short films about poverty in the UK
Some months ago, Mosaic Films got together with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and BBC Storyville to see if we could make some films about poverty in the UK for the global Why Poverty? project. Holiday...
View Article‘Money on an Island’: catchy new tune hits tax avoiders
Some people take cash just to survive Or just to keep a small business alive or To get gifts for their loved ones Ah, but this is different! We’re not talking about fiddling a form nor Taking sixty...
View ArticleWatch: ‘Paul Dacre’s Valentine’s Day Goulash’
This is episode two of The Spike, ‘where news gets called bad names until it runs home to mummy’. This time up the papers play a game of immigration poker, journalist Rich Peppiatt bring you Shit That...
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