A quarter of a million children will go hungry this Christmas. That is just one of the headlines from the Childhood Trust’s ‘Cold, Hungry and Stressed’ report, outlining the shocking levels of poverty families across London have been plunged into ahead of the festive season. Laurence Guinness, chief executive of The Childhood Trust, outlined some…
Last week’s testimony from Cricketer Azeem Rafiq on the institutional culture of racism in cricket sent shockwaves throughout the country. As questions turned to whether the failings seen in Yorkshire were indicative of wider society, Rafiq himself had to apologise for posting historic anti-semitic messages online. Politics.co.uk went out to ask the public: Is Britain a…
Prostitution has been a part of our society for centuries, but the women who engage in it are often overlooked. Whilst there are many reasons women become sex workers, the majority are forced into it by poverty, seeing it as last resort to earn money. At the moment in Britain, prostitution itself is not illegal…
The property ladder is a metaphor synonymous in the UK for a person’s desire to progress through the various stages of homeownership. Whether it’s due to a shortage of affordable homes, salaries outstripping house prices, or even the heavier tax burdens facing Britain’s younger generation, making that first step onto the property ladder has arguably…
In October, the government announced its long-awaited net zero strategy, a complex and wide-ranging pathway to achieving net zero emissions by 2050. The government hopes the new plans will provide a clear roadmap for the economy to reorientate around a new green mission: To reduce emissions over the next three decades and to help limit global warming…
The UK is facing an energy crisis, and a climate crisis. People are rightfully concerned about their future, both short term and long term, as energy costs have shot up whilst temperatures rise. How can we solve both these problems? For too long, politicians have delayed bringing in proper legislation to deal with these crises,…
COP26 has arrived. Over the next two weeks, Glasgow will host what is being billed as humanity’s last, best chance to keep global warming under 1.5C. Over 200 countries will work together to set ambitious global climate change targets, but with big polluters like China and Russia looking less and likely to achieve global net-zero…
Five years ago, Charlotte Meehan achieved one of life’s big milestones, purchasing the lease on a one-bedroom flat with her partner. It has since come to light that the flat complex poses serious fire safety issues, ranging from flammable HPL cladding to missing cavity barriers. Like thousands of others across the UK, Charlotte and her…
It’s been 18 months since Jeremy Corbyn passed on the Labour leadership baton to Keir Starmer, and already a lot has changed. The dust hasn’t quite yet settled on Corbyn’s four years as Labour leader, but the speed of change begs the question: is the Labour party a fundamentally different political animal now, or…
It’s a big month for the UK government, as they prepare for COP26 in Glasgow, the conference that could be a pivotal moment in mankind’s fight against the climate crisis. Closer to home, there is dissatisfaction at the United Kingdom’s own efforts to deal with the climate emergency. Protest groups such as Extinction Rebellion and…
