On the eve of the controversial Spring Statement, the Times has reported that chancellor Rachel Reeves could be about to announce even more cuts to Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) benefits – to the tune of £1.6 billion In short, it seems that Reeves and her DWP counterpart Liz Kendall got their maths wrong...
Acclaimed playwright Peter Oswald has embarked on a 150-mile fasting pilgrimage for Palestine. He set out from Bristol on 18 March for the thirteen-day journey to Parliament Square in London and has now reached the midpoint in his pilgrimage. Peter Oswald embarks on a Pilgrimage for Palestine Peter Oswald, 59, was the resident playwright at...
Health secretary Wes Streeting was at a Guardian Live event on Tuesday 25 March. Hosted by the liberal outlet’s stenographer-in-chief, Pippa Crerar, it sadly didn’t go quite according to either of their plans. This is because not only were there protesters outside over Streeting’s plans for more private involvement in the NHS – but inside,...
Retired GP Diana Warner has been sentenced today in Leeds Crown Court to a two year conditional discharge and required to pay £4,380 in court costs after being found guilty of obstruction of a railway line that carries trees to be burned at Drax, the UK’s single biggest carbon emitter. Drax: burning the planet but...
At an Oxford City Council meeting on Monday 24 March, councillors unanimously voted for an “ethical investment and procurement” process, specifically in connection to Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza. And the motion’s proponent, Cllr Barbara Coyne, said in a press release: I hope this motion will be thoroughly implemented, and that its passage may pave...
In a move that has sparked widespread uproar, work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall has announced a series of Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) welfare cuts including to PIP and Universal Credit, aimed at reducing government spending that will impact millions of low-income families, and chronically ill and disabled people, who are currently bracing...
On Tuesday 25 March, climate crisis and anti-genocide protesters across England came together to target insurance companies complicit in death and destruction around the world. A press release from Boycott Bloody Insurance explained that: groups from the climate justice, Palestine liberation and migrants rights movements, held protests in cities across England. Protests took place in...
Disabled people are unfortunately pretty used to attacks by the British corporate media – trying to make us out to be fakers or using our fear for clicks. This has of course massively ramped up in the last few months in the run up to evil Liz Kendall and Rachel Reeves announcing plans to kill...
In a rare bit of good news for the climate crisis front, multiple countries are ramping up their renewable energy ambition ahead of 2035. Ramping up renewable ambitions This is according to a new report by 350.org, produced in collaboration with Zero Carbon Analytics. It found that 15 of the 19 countries that have submitted...
On Saturday 29 March, thousands of people will take on far-right billionaire and fascist Elon Musk in a Tesla Takedown Global Day of Action. Across seven UK cities (and counting), protesters will pitch up at Tesla dealerships across the UK, in tandem with activists in Australia, Canada, and Germany. Elon Musk: Tesla Takedown to hit...
On the eve of Labour Party chancellor Rachel Reeves’ controversial Spring Statement, protesters will rally outside the Treasury to demand the government raises taxes on the wealth of the super-rich instead of slashing public spending. Protests on the eve before Reeves’ Spring Statement The government sparked fury ahead of the budget, by announcing deep cuts...
Protesters gathered for a unique day of action against British bulldozer manufacturer JCB. It was over the company’s complicity in the projects of ethnic cleansing across Palestine, India, and Kashmir. Parents 4 Palestine and the Stop JCB Demolitions Campaign mobilised for the series of creative protests at the Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, in London....
New research has unveiled a distressing reality for individuals relying on Universal Credit in the UK, highlighting a growing crisis of food insecurity that casts a long shadow over their well-being. Of course, amid the Labour government’s plans for £5bn of cuts to chronically ill and disabled people’s Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) benefits,...
On 24 March, Israeli far-right Zionist settlers in the occupied West Bank attacked and lynched Hamdan Ballal, who co-directed the Oscar-winning No Other Land. Occupation soldiers then abducted him from the ambulance that had come to treat him for his injuries. Hamdan Ballal: lynched and abducted At the time of writing, there had been “no...
On Wednesday 26 March, hundreds of chronically ill, disabled, and neurodivergent people, those living with mental health issues, and their allies will gather outside 10 Downing Street from 11am. It will be in protest at the Labour Party government’s proposed £5bn cuts to people’s social security. It comes after decades of Department for Work and...