DWP Secretary Esther McVey has long been reviled among disabled people and other benefit claimants, even when she was junior to Iain Duncan Smith, for the measures she pushed through […]
SKWAWKBOX readers will be interested to know about a very unusual ‘bank job’. Can the power of art and documentary cinema help to buy off payday loans and help fund […]
Pm Tuesday evening, the SKWAWKBOX published a list of the MPs, including 302 Tories, who voted to deprive over a million schoolchildren of a free, hot school meal – at […]
In the House of Commons on Tuesday, MPs defeated a Labour motion, moved by Shadow Education Secretary Angela Rayner, to block a planned government move that will take a free, […]
Tory MP Ben Bradley is no stranger to missteps on social media, having recently had to pay an undisclosed five-figure sum to two local charities and tweet a humiliating apology […]
In this guest post, activist Jess Tomlinson details the draconian cuts inflicted on England’s Children’s Centres and calls for help to reverse the decline. Children’s Centre across England are facing […]
Wednesday night’s BBC 2 programme, Generation Gifted, followed six extremely bright, 13-year-old pupils from poor, disadvantaged backgrounds and the challenges they face to make the most of their abilities. One passage […]
BBC Radio Five Live today carried a segment on poverty. The first caller to the show related a shocking, real-life example of the levels of poverty and desperation some people […]
Tory Minister of State for Housing and Planning, Dominic Raab, has a low opinion of this country’s workers. He co-authored a book – along with four fellow Tory MPs – […]
This morning, the Office of National Statistics (ONS) released its “Analysis of real earnings: January 2018”. Those statistics showed that our earnings in real terms – levels adjusted for inflation […]