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Will cutting housing benefit to pay for defence spending work?
6+ day, 10+ hour ago (942+ words) Find out more about how your personal data is processed and set your preferences in the details section. Kemi Badenoch has announced plans to raise £10bn a year in defence spending paid for welfare cuts. Experts warn it will mean a…...
A trip home to London showed the damage gentrification has done
1+ week, 4+ day ago (845+ words) We need a bigger and better form of social thinking than we have ever had before, writes John BIrd The shops in Fulham in the 1970s have been replaced by a plethora of estate agents. Image: George Harris / ANL / Shutterstock It…...
Four things we learned from Andy Burnham’s council housing plans
1+ week, 4+ day ago (671+ words) The £39bn social and affordable homes programme was announced last year under Keir Starmer. New prime minister Andy Burnham has announced how £10bn of it will be allocated Prime minister Andy Burnham and housing secretary Angela Rayner visit homelessness charity Changing Lives…...
Darren McGarvey: 'I'd prank Tommy Robinson if I was prime minister"
2+ week, 1+ day ago (467+ words) We put the Glaswegian author, activist, rapper and social commentator in the Downing Street hot seat for an afternoon Darren McGarvey. Image: Jack Cocker Darren ‘Loki’ McGarvey is a rapper, author and social commentator but what what would happen if…...
Energy bills to rise to highest level in three years from October
2+ week, 4+ day ago (631+ words) Regulator Ofgem announced a 4% rise to its energy price cap, amounting to a £60 increase for the typical household Energy bills are set to rise again. Image: Pexels / Boom Energy bills will rise by more than £60 a year this winter as…...
Big Issue vendors react to Andy Burnham rough sleeping pledge
2+ week, 4+ day ago (1115+ words) The new prime minister promised that every rough sleeper in England would be offered a route off the streets by Christmas. Will he succeed? Here’s what Big Issue vendors think Vendor Bob Sheppard wears a Big Issue bucket hat from…...
How can we revitalise the high street?
2+ week, 6+ day ago (293+ words) The site of the old BHS in Kirkcaldy has been spruced up by locals What can you get for £1 nowadays? Back in 2019 it could have been an entire shopping centre. That was the reserve price on The Postings in my…...
The link between prime ministers and Premier League managers
3+ week, 2+ day ago (873+ words) Being prime minister and a top-flight football manager in England are both jobs that have become far less secure than they used to be Burnham is the seventh substitution since 2010 Keir Starmer has become the latest prime minister the UK…...
Ending rough sleeping is a 'moral mission', says Andy Burnham
3+ week, 3+ day ago (496+ words) Andy Burnham tells Big Issue why he has pledged to offer every person rough sleeping in England a place off the streets by Christmas Prime minister Andy Burnham has vowed to help people sleeping rough off the streets by Christmas....
Rough sleepers off streets by Christmas, says Andy Burnham
3+ week, 4+ day ago (931+ words) The prime minister is set to roll out the A Bed Every Night model he pioneered in Greater Manchester across the rest of England in his bid to end rough sleeping for good Andy Burnham said his first instruction as…...