ADVERTISEMENT Are cleaners third rate citizens? It’s a provocative question that might never cross our minds. We are all equal, aren’t we? In fact it seems that cleaners and security staff at 10 Downing Street were treated as even less than third rate citizens. This was by staff who partied longContinue Reading
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ADVERTISEMENT Jonquil Lowe, The Open University; Adi Imsirovic, University of Surrey; Alan Shipman, The Open University, and Keith Baker, Glasgow Caledonian University Rishi Sunak, the UK chancellor of the exchequer, has unveiled a £15 billion package of measures to help households with the cost of living, after energy watchdog OfgemContinue Reading
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ADVERTISEMENT In 1951 a third of the villages in County Durham were classified as ‘D’ – no longer deemed worthy of investment and expected to die quietly. Over the next 25 years local communities fought to save the hundred and twenty one villages that eighty five thousand people still calledContinue Reading
ADVERTISEMENT Whist there is understandably some relief at the government finally responding to the cost of living crisis, we are far from solving the problem. The Director of the North East Child Poverty Commission has responded to the new package of cost of living measures announced by the Chancellor today.Continue Reading
ADVERTISEMENT The European Movement has responded to today’s news on Partygate and the Sue Gray report. Here is the full statement from Anna Bird, CEO of European Movement UK. “Today’s publication of the Sue Gray report clearly exposes failures of leadership from Boris Johnson’s government and a toxic culture at the centre ofContinue Reading
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