The Conversation

The British Miracle Meat: how banning repugnant choices obscures the real issue of poverty

Renaud Foucart does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
Digital Journal

UN says British government in ‘state of denial’ on poverty

The United Nations accused the British government Friday of being in a "state of denial" about a growing rich-poor divide that was being exacerbated by Brexit. UN poverty and human rights rapporteur ...
AOL

Austerity-era benefit cuts plunged nearly a quarter of British children into poverty, study finds

Nearly a quarter of children born in Britain since the 2010s have faced poverty for at least half of their childhoods due to sweeping ‘austerity era’ benefit cuts, stark new research has found. The ...
The Big Issue

Beyond British seaside holidays: How homelessness and poverty go unseen in coastal communities

The coastal idyll of lazy summer days filled with walks on the beach and wild swimming (or what we locals call swimming), couldn’t be further from the truth for many of us who were born and raised on ...
The Conversation

DfID merger with Foreign Office signals shift from using aid to reduce poverty to promoting British national self interest

Shelter kits delivered to Mozambique after Cyclone Idai by the Department for International Development in 2019. DfID via Flickr, CC BY For a prime minister so keen on proclaiming Britain’s ...