Cheap groceries from dollar stores come with a hidden cost for the working class. New research from the University of California, Riverside has linked greater reliance on dollar-store food with higher rates of obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and…
China has sentenced Evergrande founder Hui Ka Yan to life in prison for bribery, fraud and falsifying financial information, bringing down one of the country’s most powerful private capitalists. The Shenzhen court also imposed an 8.82 billion yuan ($1.3 billion)…
Andy Burnham’s Labour government has overridden Tower Hamlets council and thousands of local objections to force through a power-hungry data centre near Brick Lane, even as London suffers its worst drought in decades. Housing secretary Angela Rayner approved the development…
The company that made Grenfell Tower’s flammable cladding paid more compensation to shareholders than to the people who survived the fire and the families of those it killed. Arconic paid shareholders $74 million (£54.7 million) for economic losses suffered after…
Andy Burnham has pledged “100 percent” support for Ukraine as British-made drones strike deeper into Russia, hitting energy facilities and civilian targets while doing little to alter the course of the war. Asked in Wolverhampton about Moscow’s warning that Britain’s…
Britain’s right has spent years telling workers that danger comes from the neighbour with the wrong surname or the worker with the wrong passport. A new King’s College London and YouGov survey shows how deeply that poison has spread, and…
The Buffalo Bills played their first preseason game at the new Highmark Stadium on Saturday. Season ticketholders got an early look during an open practice last week, and many didn’t like what they saw. Photos shared on social media showed…
Parents in County Durham are watering down baby formula because they can’t afford to replace it. In one of the world’s richest capitalist countries, families are being forced to gamble with their babies’ health to make a tin of milk…
A U.S. appeals court this week upheld a preliminary injunction won by Gilead Sciences against several alternative funding programs, or AFPs, and related businesses accused of importing medicines through unauthorized foreign channels. Patient advocacy groups say the decision could force…
Westminster council is threatening the future of a weekly soup kitchen in Charing Cross, piling costs and enforcement action onto volunteers who provide hot meals, clothes and sleeping bags to homeless people. Friends of Essex & London Homeless (FOELH) has…
