Welfare

Welfare

• Austerity Britain is destroying our mental health

  

  As those most affected by austerity Britain blame themselves, we must turn attention to the real culprits, argues Karen Buckley

• Universal Credit: the cruellest cut

  

  The Tory government's welfare reform programme ruins lives and must be scrapped, argues Steph Pike

• We must stop Universal Credit now: it's already wrecking lives

  

  The government has pushed the full roll-out of Universal Credit further down the road, but we must stop it altogether, argues John Rees

• Universal Credit: pausing is not enough, abolish it

  

  Universal credit is not about 'reform', it's about the Tories penalising the poor, argues Steph Pike

• Universal Credit: gross incompetence or calculated cruelty?

  

  After the defeat for the government over its welfare reforms, we have to do everything we can to sweep it away

• For Whose Benefit? The Everyday Realities of Welfare Reform

  

  For Whose Benefit? shows how the hard-won rights to social security have become stigmatised through a series of in-depth interviews, finds Jacqueline Mulhallen

• This is our time, but we have to organise - weekly briefing

  

  The left is on the front foot - we can't let this moment pass

• Theresa the Granny’s house snatcher

  

  The Tories' inept flailing around on their social care plans shows that the market can't solve the problem

• NHS: Britain is in a humanitarian crisis

  

  The roots of the precarious state of our welfare system lie in the Tories' austerity policies, writes Ollie Turnbull

• Autumn Statement: different Chancellor, Same Tune

  

  Despite the Autumn Statement's projection for the future being bleak, the Tory austerity project remains in place, argues Adam Tomes

• Hunger Pains: Life inside Foodbank Britain

  

  Austerity policies targeting the benefits system have created enormous suffering, as a study of the rise of foodbanks shows, finds Ellen Graubart

• Critical condition: saving Homerton Hospital

  

  Threatened privatisation at Homerton Hospital has sparked a local campaign. Ellen Graubart reports on how government plans for the NHS are being resisted

• The biggest anti-nuclear march in a generation

  

  Saturday's march against the renewal of Britain's nuclear weapons was angry, political and full of hope, reports Tom Griffiths

• Labour resigns as the Opposition

  

  Yesterday’s vote could well be a milestone in the decline of the Labour Party. It was a shameful spectacle to see Labour's majority abstaining writes John Westmoreland

• Losing your home: explaining the Coalition's eviction epidemic

  

  The Tory war on welfare is implicated in the growing numbers of evictions finds Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi in the third part of her investigation into housing in Coalition Britain

• Good Times, Bad Times: The Welfare Myth of Them and Us

  

  Good Times, Bad Times exposes pernicious myths about the welfare state, and shows how much the great majority of us benefit from it, finds Ellen Graubart

• Who are the real spongers?

  Graphic showing the vast scale of the Bank bailouts compared to estimates of benefit fraud for the last ten years