England’s regions are not equally insulated for the coming winter
Exorbitant energy prices mean that a well-insulated house is more valuable than ever.
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How the super-rich live
Wandering through the haunts favoured by London’s wealthiest residents reveals the gilded side of the capital hiding in plain sight.
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Rishi Sunak boasted of taking money from “deprived urban areas” to help wealthy towns
A leaked video shows the former chancellor saying that Labour “shoved all the funding into deprived urban areas” and that…
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The Policy Ask with Zoë Billingham: “Make reducing regional inequality a legal requirement”
The director of think tank IPPR North on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, energy company profits and the Levelling Up bill.
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How the gap between public and private sector pay has grown
A proposal by Liz Truss would have further depressed public sector wages that have fallen in real terms since 2010.
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Should class snobbery be banned?
Psychologists are urging UK government ministers to outlaw classist discrimination, the New Statesman reveals.
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UK wages have fallen behind European rivals
By 2018, UK incomes were just 9 per cent higher than in 2005, compared with 40 per cent in Germany…
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The dire effects of tech-fuelled inequality can be seen in schools across the nation
A new report reveals how austerity and lockdown have had a predictably appalling impact on vulnerable children.
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The threat of another Grenfell Tower disaster endures
Five years after the fire, less than 1 per cent of buildings have had their dangerous cladding removed.
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“We have to tax the billionaires”: California Democrat Ro Khanna on seizing the moment for change
The congressman on bipartisanship, refusing apathy and how to make tech work for all.
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The British state offers socialism for wealthy homeowners and higher taxes for everyone else
Merry Christmas, peasants.
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How Covid pushed a generation out of the cities
Thirteen thousand people from the UK’s 1,000 most deprived urban local authorities migrated to the countryside over the course of…
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Kate Pickett: If governments had followed our science, we’d have fewer deaths
None of the things that seemed to surprise others about this pandemic have surprised social epidemiologists, Pickett says.
ByThe meaning of the F-word
We asked the following writers, activists and politicians the same question: if feminists could campaign for one thing, what should…
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Vince Cable and Frank Field back Compass campaign for a high pay commission
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