The NHS is being burdened by the scale of Britain’s health inequalities, reports Sam Bright
Society
From arriving in the UK with nowhere to turn, to falling through the cracks and sleeping rough, Byline Times looks at the experiences of migrant people who are homeless
An exclusive investigation by Sian Norris reveals the 'national disgrace' of council tenants struggling with mould
Therese Coffey mentioned challenging times twice in the Commons debate on Thursday last. That the times are so challenging is, in large part, a result of the government itself, which, having, entirely unnecessarily, denuded the state of investment since 2010, is creating the vast majority of the ongoing and everyday challenges for its own people.... Read more
This is the clear result of the enormous increase in property prices – driven largely by the banks’ desire for profit. A mortgage that was limited to about three times annual income in the 1990s is now frequently and remarkably seven times annual income. No wonder one in forty mortgagees are in arrears – a... Read more
New data shows the number of people going without food has increased by 100% since before the pandemic, with health outcomes for the poorest households worsening
This is excellent work from Tortoise Media (for, as they say, slow news)… It is worth listening to the short introduction below – then the link to the database itself is here: A real democratic service which makes for interesting reading – even when you discover that your own MP, like mine, hasn’t really received... Read more
I think that the right to strike is unquestionably a democratic right as argued in the Guardian here – surely anything else is just indentured labour? Apparently the way to tame the unions is to destroy their immunity from being sued for any harm striking might cause – or as the same article puts it:... Read more
‘As sure as guns is guns, if we let in coloured labour, they’ll swallow us. They hate us. All the other colours hate the white. And they’re only waiting till we haven’t got the pull over them. They’re only waiting. And then what about poor little Australia?’
If a society consisted of human beings who had been partly engineered or edited, would we think about human life in the same way or would we lose a sense of reciprocity with others?