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Labour’s deafening silence on Brexit

Labour are strategically ignoring the Brexit debate, rolling the dice that the Conservative party will tear itself apart, but is this the right approach? Isn’t Brexit too important to gamble on?

What to do about Food Bank Britain?

Food banks exist in a bizarre sphere - they are not part of the welfare state but are proliferating following recent welfare state reform. The government has repeatedly denied any link between benefit cuts and the rise of food poverty, but they need to accept…

The CAMHS Crisis

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) in Britain are failing our young people. With vast waiting lists and an urgent lack of beds, mental illness in teens is becoming an epidemic that isn’t being treated as it should be.

“Back to the forties”: Universal Credit and the rediscovery of absolute poverty

Theresa May’s decision to push forward with the rollout of Universal Credit threatens to throw Britain’s welfare provision back to the 1940s.

Why is the left failing the working class?

The left is unpopular with the very section of society it…

I’m Not Lovin’ It: Zero Hour Contracts

With the McStrikes bringing zero hour contracts back into the news, can UK buisness kick its no-work-guaranteed habit? With rampant in-work poverty plaguing the nation, we can only hope so.

An Inconvenient Turn of Events

With President Trump’s motion to withdraw from the Paris Agreement and the widespread destruction caused by the 2017 Atlantic Hurricane Season, things look glum for the climate movement. However, as former Vice President Al Gore’s latest documentary shows, we can work around…

The Parched Dragon: The Domestic and Global Shocks of China’s Growing Water Crisis

China is plagued by a growing water security crisis and its current solutions are far from sufficient. The reverberations of this crisis have already had global implications, notably…