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?
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…
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.
Theresa May’s decision to push forward with the rollout of Universal Credit threatens to throw Britain’s welfare provision back to the 1940s.
Shashi Tharoor has made a welcome intervention in the national discourse about the British Empire. Now, we must dispel the historical amnesia.
James Whittaker and Shameera Lin
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.
With a revised Drug Strategy released in 2017 the UK’s position on drugs remains, at least in part, focused on criminalisation. Its clear limitations in funding and focus create a strategy that does little to address a real-world solution for drug misuse in the UK.
The dramatic scenery of the Scottish Highlands to many seems tranquil and unspoilt. However, with such a strong concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a few individuals, the reality is a tense, deeply political environment.
Does the Labour Party’s ‘National Education Service’ deserve comparisons to our NHS?
UK Politics
By Joe Perry