Some of the UK’s largest housing providers have dramatically increased annual service charges by thousands of pounds, plunging residents into financial crisis, an Observer investigation…
View More Outrage as residents in England’s ‘affordable’ housing forced to pay thousands of pounds extra in service chargeTag: Inequality
Much of England’s ‘national landscapes’ out of bounds, say campaigners
England’s most stunning “national landscapes” are largely out of bounds, and 22 of the 34 have less than 10% of their area open to the…
View More Much of England’s ‘national landscapes’ out of bounds, say campaignersThe climate crisis will amplify the UK’s existing health inequalities
The health inequalities between different ethnicities, neighbourhoods and social classes are already stark, with millions of women in the most deprived areas in England dying…
View More The climate crisis will amplify the UK’s existing health inequalitiesBan private jets to address climate crisis, says Thomas Piketty
Questions of social and economic class must be at the centre of our response to the climate crisis, to address the huge inequalities between the…
View More Ban private jets to address climate crisis, says Thomas PikettyRevealed: the huge climate impact of the middle classes
The richest 10% of people in many countries cause up to 40 times more climate-heating carbon emissions than the poorest 10% of their fellow citizens,…
View More Revealed: the huge climate impact of the middle classesEngland worst place in developed world to find housing, says report
England is now “the most difficult place to find a home in the developed world”, housebuilders have claimed in a snapshot of the housing crisis…
View More England worst place in developed world to find housing, says report‘They were earning £10,000 more than me!’ What happens when colleagues come clean about pay
When Martina, a 35-year-old IT analyst, told colleagues what she earned, they confirmed her worst suspicions. It wasn’t what they said, but what they didn’t…
View More ‘They were earning £10,000 more than me!’ What happens when colleagues come clean about payAir we breathe in UK depends on race and income, studies show
We are all affected by air pollution but some of us suffer a greater burden than others. An analysis published by the mayor of London…
View More Air we breathe in UK depends on race and income, studies showParis climate finance summit fails to deliver debt forgiveness plan
Poorer countries struggling with a growing debt crisis were thrown a lifeline at a global finance summit in Paris but the plans still fell short…
View More Paris climate finance summit fails to deliver debt forgiveness plan‘Bank of mum and dad’ stoking Britain’s rising inequality, warns report
Billions of pounds loaned by the “bank of mum and dad” to help with property purchases and to boost the finances of newly married offspring…
View More ‘Bank of mum and dad’ stoking Britain’s rising inequality, warns report