Author Nunns gives FT journo an object lesson in anti-Tory Twitter pwnage
Alex Nunns is the author of the excellent The Candidate, an account of the 2015 Labour leadership contest that first put Jeremy Corbyn at the head of the party. He’s also […]
Tag Archives: 1%
Tories’ outright lies on 1% benefit uprating
While I was going through this month’s Office of National Statistics (ONS) employment statistics for my monthly analysis of what you won’t see in the headlines, I came across a […]
McVey admits 200k more children into poverty. Truth: at LEAST 1.2m
Last week in the Commons Esther McVey, Under-Secretary of State for Work & pensions, made a startling and clearly unwilling admission: that 200,000 more children would be forced into poverty by […]
Yes, the top 1% pay 27% of tax. No, they’re not paying their share.
I’ve used these figures before, in a post I wrote a few months ago in response to some claims by Tory MP and apologist for the rich, Jacob Rees-Mogg. However, […]
Up to 24,000 died last winter through fuel poverty. Now >900k more to be ‘fuel-poor’
As I wrote the other day, up to 24,000 people died last winter, directly or indirectly, because of ‘fuel poverty’. Well, today BBC News mentions an announcement by ‘government advisors’ […]
Rees-Mogg’s BBC QT 38%/1%/26% – what he WASN’T telling you
The record rains earlier this week led to a curious situation where a block of flats was evacuated because of a flood. You might think that a flood wouldn’t present […]