The latest prime minister must address poverty undermining Britain
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Poverty is a growth industry. Starmer has not grasped this nettle
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Birmingham bin workers’ strike shows key workers deserve support
There was no romance in my ending up sweeping streets. I was not doing a George Orwell and…
Where Turner wears me out, Constable restores me
One, Turner, born in Covent Garden where his father was a barber, the other a country boy from…
On a train journey across England I take a trip into my past
In some ways Thatcher, humble of birth but ascending into mock aristocracy, was one of our cleverest leaders.…
England and Wales must set legal targets to end child poverty
As laid out in the new ‘Poverty Zero’ policy report, which is being launched today (25 June) at…
The modernisers of postwar Britain forgot one vital ingredient
Slowly, a concept of a collapsed and decayed Britain crept in. And clever middle-class children developed satire in…