Enough is enough: homeless people have occupied a building in one of London’s richest areas
Amid the freezing weather, a grassroots homelessness group has taken direct action to try and stop the deaths on our...
The LGBTQ+ community’s hidden history is being ‘outed’ at an international conference
An international conference in its fifth year is taking place in Liverpool this March. The organisers aim to shine a...
Disabled people want to meet Theresa May over the UN’s ‘human catastrophe’ verdict
A coalition of disabled people's organisations (DPOs) has written to Theresa May. It's asking her to meet with them over...
Police forced a homeless woman into the cold because rich people ‘didn’t want her dossing near them’
On Tuesday 27 February, police in Croydon reportedly moved a homeless woman onto the streets from a car park corridor...
Boris Johnson blames freak weather on ‘EU meddling in jet stream’
A leaked letter from foreign secretary Boris Johnson has laid the blame for the UK's extreme weather on "Brussels bureaucrats...
A former top civil servant just broke rank to shame the government over climate change
A former senior climate change official in the Coalition government has broken rank over fracking. He didn't mince his words,...
A nationwide history festival may just have made a little bit of history itself
LGBT History Month is drawing to a close, and with it so is a nationwide festival of the community's history....
Sheffield residents are defending their trees against a ‘Thatcherite’ council and a greedy contractor
There were extraordinary scenes in Sheffield on Tuesday 27 February, as local residents reportedly faced off with over 30 police...
Countdown’s Rachel Riley just annihilated Virgin Trains over its treatment of a disabled passenger
Countdown's Rachel Riley is a bit of a mathematical genius. Did you know, though, that she's also a rather skilled...
Disabled people say they’ve had it with the ‘violence’ of Universal Credit. Here’s why.
The rollout of the government's controversial welfare reform, Universal Credit, continues to dominate the headlines. But for one campaign group,...
Homeless people will die in this weather. One grassroots group needs your help to prevent that.
This year, up and down the UK, homeless people have been dying. With the Met Office issuing severe weather warnings...
We now have ‘beauty banks’ for poor people’s toiletries. We’ve got no dignity left.
On 24 February, Sky News published an interview with the founder of Beauty Banks, the personal hygiene product equivalent of a...
The absolute chaos at a Southern Rail station on Sunday has to be seen to be believed
There were chaotic scenes at a Southern Rail station on Sunday 25 February. And it does actually have to be...
A leading LGBTQ+ group has slammed the mainstream media’s reporting of UK human rights violations
A leading LGBTQ+ group has hit out at the mainstream media's failings in reporting human rights violations in Northern Ireland,...
The reality of food bank Britain is about to be exposed in a very public way
A critically acclaimed play is returning to the London stage for a one-off performance. But far from being about a...
Southern Rail is applying for its franchise again. The reaction from commuters is priceless.
Beleaguered train operator Southern Rail has announced it will be re-applying for its current contract. But if you wanted a...
One Facebook post from the police shows the despair of homeless people in the UK
A police force revealed in a social media post that a homeless man intentionally tried to get himself arrested. It...
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