Why the Labour Party needs poverty

A study by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has revealed that, despite the overall number of children living in poverty in the UK falling to 3.7 million, the number living in poverty in working households has risen to its largest ever total.
The study shows that fewer youngsters of the unemployed are living in poverty, but 2.1 [...]

Charity begins at home – and ends there

No, it’s not a gripe about the Tories increasing the overseas aid budget to help regimes like Pakistan’s that buys weapons of mass destruction (real ones) and puts people on death row for talking about Christ.
Today is the BBC’s annual attempt to get the land’s couch potatoes to phone up and donate money to “good [...]