Kill the Housing Bill: A New Battle Over Rent Heats Up On Britain’s Streets

The "Pay to Stay" system would make social housing tenants pay the same in rent as those living in privately-owned property – a change protestors say will force thousands out of their homes.

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UK Is At Bottom Of O.E.C.D. In Healthcare – But Leaders Still Deny Austerity Is to Blame

Public discontentment with the National Health Service rose in 2014 more sharply than in any other year on record – and Britain now ranks 28th out of 30 among developed countries in terms of the quality of its healthcare.

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England’s Soaring Death Rate Tied to Government Austerity That Slashed Health Services

Last year saw the highest number of deaths in England in nearly half a century – a burgeoning mortality rate now being pinned to government cuts in social services and other austerity measures in one of the richest nations on Earth.

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Homelessness Soaring in the UK As People Can No Longer Afford To Pay Rent

One in five renters in Britain could not afford to pay January’s rent out of their normal salary and were forced to resort to credit cards, loans, overdrafts, pay day loans and borrowing from friends and family in order to pay housing costs.

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Bursary Or Bust: Thousands of Student Nurses and Midwives Take To U.K. Streets Over Cuts

Starting in August of next year, the Tories plan to scrap vital funds for student nurses in training, who instead will be forced to take out loans that leave them saddled with debt.

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Global Warming-Induced Floods Hammer Britain As Tories Approve New Fracking Law

Legislation signed in mid-December enables frackers to drill beneath World Heritage Sites, Groundwater Protection Zones, and national parks across Britain.

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Britain’s Pay Gap Widens Further As Fat Cat Salaries Exceed 183 Times the Average Wage

If the U.K. had a reason last year to ponder why the poor weren’t “storming the barricades” over income inequality, the county has even more reason to ask the question heading into 2016.

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Britain Has Marginalized A Mental Health Care Crisis That Threatens To Explode

Between 2011 and 2014, more than 4,000 people deemed "fit to work" died within six weeks following their Work Capacity Assessment by the U.K. government, shocking the nation and revealing a looming crisis in mental health care.

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Refugee Crisis Sharpens In Britain As Portsmouth Moves to Close Door On Asylum Seekers

As the daily flow of about 8,000 refugees into Europe shows little sign of abating, showdowns like the one in Portsmouth are likely to increase as tensions and frustrations grow.

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A Unifying, Mass Movement Grows Against Austerity In Manchester and Across UK

Privatization of Britain's National Health Service has soared by 500% in the past year – one reason that tens of thousands of protesters are in the streets voicing outrage about Tory government policies.

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