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Pensioner Poverty Is a Political Choice

As the cost of living crisis bites, millions of elderly people in Britain are fighting to get by on the lowest state pension in the industrialised world. It's a situation the Chancellor could change this week, if he wanted to.

Auden’s Radical Humanism

In the decades of fascism and war, W. H. Auden’s poetry attacked a depraved elite who brought the world to the brink of catastrophe. Today, his words and warnings have lost none of their original power.

The Tory War on Public Transport

Record fuel prices have left millions struggling to pay for travel. Public transport can be the alternative – but only if years of Tory privatisation and underfunding are reversed.