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Published in: Home: NewsRevealed: UK household energy debt hit record high even before price hikes
Official Ofgem data shows millions of electricity and gas users in arrears for the first quarter of 2022
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Published in: Home: FeatureLeft in the dark: The families struggling to survive fuel poverty
In this south Wales community, parents skip meals, kids wear coats to bed, and pensioners shower at the local pool
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Published in: Home: NewsGovernment’s anti-union law will push wages down, economist warns
Ministers could be breaking international law by allowing employers to bring in agency workers to break strikes
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Published in: Home: FeatureMinisters knew heating subsidy was paying billions to UK’s wealthiest
It’s costing taxpayers £23bn, disproportionately benefiting rich landowners, and may be little more than greenwash
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Published in: Home: InvestigationExclusive: MPs and landowners rake in energy subsidies as millions struggle
International trade secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan and members of the landed gentry are among those to benefit
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionInflation is squeezing workers. We need a £15 minimum wage
To fairly protect those most impacted by the cost of living crisis we need to squash profits – not pay
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Published in: Home: OpinionTo ‘level up’, the UK needs a real jubilee: a mass write-off of debts
Even before cost of living crisis, the poor owed the government – or, the Crown – £16bn. Why not just write it off?
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Published in: Home: OpinionOur global economic system is broken. Are we headed for a mass revolt?
How long can billionaires continue to amass wealth while the world's poorest struggle to buy food?
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionThe Bank of England’s cost of living strategy: cut wages, protect profits
Faced with the first serious bout of inflation in decades, the Bank of England is proving to be almost entirely rudderless
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Published in: Home: News87,000 people can’t keep up with care bills as cost of living soars
Exclusive: 1 in 4 ‘chargeable’ care users sent reminders or warnings, and hundreds referred to debt collectors
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Published in: Home: NewsRevealed: Taxpayers fork out £8m to subsidise Lords’ food and drink
Exclusive: Bailout comes on top of £17m spent on bars and restaurants in the House of Commons, with cut-price food...
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Published in: Home: OpinionThe Tory guide to surviving the cost of living crisis
From moving into your parents’ annexe to getting a better-paid job, the government has some savvy little tips for...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionThe UK’s new finance bill could cause another financial meltdown
In the midst of a cost of living crisis, finance should work for everyday citizens, not the City of London and huge...
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Published in: 50.50: NewsCost of living crisis could be ‘catastrophic’ for domestic abuse survivors
Experts say surging costs may offer perpetrators an excuse to control the household’s finances – depriving survivors...
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Published in: Home: FeatureOn energy strategy, the government is leaving women in the cold
Women will shoulder some of the worst effects of soaring energy bills. Why doesn’t the government’s energy security...
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Published in: Home: NewsEnergy suppliers’ websites down as customers rush to submit meter readings
A number of energy company websites are experiencing issues as customers scramble to submit meter readings
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Published in: Home: OpinionWe’re in an energy crisis. We can’t wait for Rishi Sunak any more
The UK’s desperately needed energy security statement has been delayed while the world burns and millions are...
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Published in: ourEconomy: AnalysisWhy Rishi Sunak’s Spring Statement was tone deaf to the UK economic crisis
The chancellor helped out middle-income households, but left the poorest with just a fraction of the support they...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionTo tackle the cost of living crisis, we must end the Great British Rip Off
A major culprit of the ‘cost of living’ crisis is hiding in plain sight: an extractive economy that redistributes...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionDiane Abbott: Cost of living crisis was caused by privatisation and austerity
Last year it was claimed that Boris Johnson had ended the age of austerity. Those claims now look ridiculously ill-judged