Amber Rudd: under pressure over violent crime.
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The former Police and Crime Commissioner for Essex argues that more resources can help, but any available funds need to be spent by the right agencies in the right way.
Millennials have been hardest hit by cuts.
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Young people are poorer than older people in England and the wealth gap between the young and the old is on the rise.
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The UK government is shockingly apathetic about the fast rise in mortality in England and Wales.
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The audio version of a long read on stalling life expectancy in the UK.
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Food is just food … or is it?
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Can today’s crisis in mental health be seen as the result of neoliberalism, the 2007/08 financial crisis and the austerity policies that followed?
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In announcing free higher education, South African President Jacob Zuma, lobbed a populist hot potato at the ANC elective conference but it’s ordinary people whose fingers will be burnt.
A helping hand: a volunteer at a food bank in Glasgow.
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The people most affected must be involved in designing the solutions.
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A look behind the statistics that link government spending cuts with increases in death.
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Life expectancy has been steadily improving in the UK for 110 years. Until now.
No time for head scratching.
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There was token investment in driverless cars, but this was a pitiful budget by a rudderless government.
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The morality of tax avoidance becomes problematic when it is aggressively pursued through creative schemes.
Pushed too far?
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The government has ignored this group for years, now it asks why they vote for the opposition.
Few Puerto Ricans expect the Trump administration to help the island as it did hurricane-hit Texas and Florida, yet the island’s recent bankruptcy has left it facing a humanitarian disaster.
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Hurricane Maria has left 3.4 million Puerto Ricans facing shortages of food, health care and transit, an American humanitarian crisis fueled by the US territory’s May 2017 bankruptcy.
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Historically, there have been numerous cultural manifestations of austerity that shed light on its enduring appeal.
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The strategy’s focus on rotten apples seems destined to fail.
The crisis hit the high street bank in 2007.
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The 2007-08 financial crisis affected the world’s advanced economies in profound ways and the ripple effects continue to today.
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It is only when disaster strikes that a community and its problems are truly rendered visible.
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When financial times are tight, only those with soft power ambitions can see the economic sense in World Cups or Olympic Games.
Signage outside the Winterbourne View residential hospital in Bristol.
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People with learning disabilities need to have a say in the government policy that rules their lives.