The collapsing school buildings scandal has exposed how the Government failed to 'fix the roof while the sun was shining'
Austerity
Ministers' claims that the school building scandal only emerged 'over the summer' is contradicted by evidence of warnings going back years
The UK's miscarriages of justice watchdog failed to protect Malkinson, who remained in jail for 17 years for a crime he didn't commit
A new wave of unionisation in the cultural sector is pushing back against a decade of austerity in the sector
“Never forget that the economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of nature”. Global Boiling – Kate Mackenzie and Tim Sahay Many of us have grown up with the story of …
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MMT strips way the veil of neo-liberal ideology that mainstream macroeconomists use to restrict government spending. We learn that these constraints are purely voluntary and have no intrinsic status. This …
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A new study shows how the effects of austerity on women and children are now being compounded by the cost of living crisis in Northern Ireland
Austerity, combined with poor policy decisions, left the NHS in a far weaker position by the time David Oliver was caring for his first Coronavirus patient in March 2020
“It is a trope of twentieth and twenty-first century-life that governments faced with financial shortfalls look first to the services they provide their citizens when making cuts. Instances like these …
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“As long as we labour under the delusion that financial choices are the same for a government as they are for households or firms, who don’t have a [central] bank …
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