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Published in: Home: NewsCouncil that vetoed cash for food banks to spend £50,000 on coronationExclusive: Tory-controlled Bromley Council is among those spending a total of £3.8m on royal-themed events
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Published in: Home: FeatureHow academisation could be driving down teachers’ pay and conditionsAverage salaries in academies are lower than in council-run schools, while union members have less bargaining power
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Published in: Home: OpinionI’m a newly qualified nurse. Here’s why I rejected the insulting 5% pay offerOPINION: After tax, National Insurance, pension payments and student loan repayments, I’d have got £15 extra a week
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Published in: Home: NewsTory MPs’ rent expenses soar as they inflict real-terms housing benefit cutExclusive: Tory MPs blamed rising rents for increased claims, while government imposed freeze on poorest tenants
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionDon’t be fooled by childcare pledges, Hunt’s budget offers the bare minimumOPINION: The chancellor failed to tackle the cost of living crisis, but threw money at big business and top earners
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Published in: Home: NewsStudent nurses ‘excluded’ from Jeremy Hunt’s free childcareExpansion of the free childcare scheme is supposed to help struggling families, but there are still barriers for trainees
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Published in: Home: NewsOfgem ignored 700,000 debt complaints before British Gas scandalExclusive: Energy regulator did nothing about mountain of complaints until British Gas prepayment scandal was revealed
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Published in: Home: OpinionWe deserve better than Starmer’s Blairite government. Here’s how we get itOPINION: To avoid another government committed to continuing Thatcherism, we need new tech that makes votes count
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Published in: Home: OpinionI’ve never been on strike before. Here’s why today was differentOPINION: I’m walking out in solidarity with colleagues, even though I have my own problems as a freelancer
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Published in: Home: OpinionI’ve been an NHS nurse for 15 years. Here’s why I’m going on strikeOPINION: As nurses strike, the Tories must start paying them fairly to save the NHS from collapse
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Published in: Home: NewsA crisis in a crisis: How charity workers are struggling to make ends meetThose responsible for helping the UK’s most vulnerable say they are having to turn to food banks
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Published in: Home: Feature‘What else can we cut out?’ Parents struggle with crippling childcare feesParents in England tell openDemocracy of remortgaging homes or taking on second jobs to pay for rising childcare fees
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Published in: Home: NewsGlobal food companies pay shareholders £15bn as millions face povertyExclusive: World’s biggest food giants made £20bn in profits – while warning of price rises to come
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Published in: Home: NewsDelay in ‘no fault’ evictions ban leaves 48,000 households facing homelessnessThe Tories pledged to end section 21 evictions in 2019. Tens of thousands have paid the price for their slow progress
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Published in: Home: FeatureI went to a landlords’ conference during a housing crisis. Here’s what I foundWith a key tenants’ rights bill set to go before MPs, what is going through the minds of the UK’s property class?
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Published in: Home: NewsRevealed: Housing associations urged ministers to let them increase rentsRepresentatives of housing associations including Clarion, Peabody, L&Q and Optivo met and wrote to ministers over the summer
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Published in: Home: NewsPrivate renters will face ‘winter of hardship’ after autumn statementCampaigners had urged the government to cap private rents alongside social rents, which will be limited to a 7% rise
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionWe need a feminist economic alternative to Sunak and Hunt’s plansOPINION: Prioritising profit over people has disproportionately affected women and girls. It shouldn’t be this way
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Published in: ourEconomy: VideoEmpire not only made the colonies. It made the unequal Britain we see today
openDemocracy’s new film BOOMERANG, exploring the legacies of empire through Liverpool’s docks, is available online
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Published in: Home: NewsBlack nurses tell of double hit from pay discrimination and cost of livingInstitutional racism has led to Black nurses being stuck in low pay bands and left with no choice but to take second jobs
