Society: Government policy has made Britain fertile ground for hunger and disease

Poverty and politics proves an ill mix for pandemic resistance

With UK food banks reporting soaring demand for emergency aid since lockdown began, the Government’s past and present political choices have allowed coronavirus to make an existing pandemic of poverty even worse

Comment: Is Boris Johnson gearing up to spend workers’ lives to ease the lockdown blues?

Covid-19: The lives of others

We’re all in this together, supposedly, but if Boris Johnson’s speech yesterday is clear about anything, it’s that working class people are expected to pay the price of recovery – much like they paid for austerity

Society: Weaponised welfare stands in defence of inequality

Destitution by design

A leading anti-poverty thinktank has called on the UK Government to call time on destitution. There’s only one problem – ‘flagship’ government reforms to social security helped fuel the rise of hunger and hardship in the first place