At the current rate of construction, it would take 119 years to clear England’s social housing waiting lists. That’s the stark conclusion of new research from Shelter, which found that more than 1.3 million households are waiting for a social…
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Reform UK pulled in £9 million in private donations in the first three months of 2026, far more than any other party, thanks largely to a handful of cryptocurrency billionaires. The figures offer another reminder that British politics isn’t a…
The retirement crisis facing Britain’s working class is getting worse. A new report from Pensions UK warns that more than three-quarters of workers are not on track to save enough for what it calls a “moderate” standard of living in…
Britain is one of the richest countries in the world. It possesses advanced industry, immense accumulated wealth, world-class infrastructure, and a financial sector that spans the globe. Yet today around a million young people are not in education, employment or…
Britain’s working class is once again being told to pay for an imperialist war it never chose, never voted for, and never benefited from. Household energy prices are set to rise by 13% in July after wholesale gas costs surged…
The recent £23.8 million fine issued to Virgin Media by Ofcom has drawn attention to a crisis that should never have been possible in a modern, technologically advanced country. During the nationwide switchover from analogue to digital landlines, thousands of…
Why are the police always racist? Every few years in Britain, a new report comes out exposing “institutional racism” in the police. This time it was the Metropolitan Police’s own internal review, “30 Patterns of Harm” by Dr Shereen Daniels,…
The BBC recently reported the case of Sarah (a pseudonym), a woman who tried to use the UK’s Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme — better known as Clare’s Law — to find out whether her partner had a history of abuse….
Across Yorkshire, smaller towns are increasingly finding themselves without any local bank branches at all. According to the Office for National Statistics, more than half of the region’s bank branches have closed in the past ten years. In places such…
Among the many peculiarities of the British state, few embody its class contradictions more clearly than the Crown Estate. Officially described as “a collection of lands and holdings belonging to the monarch in right of the Crown,” the Estate claims…