3 articles
• via The Guardian
Seven months after Labour promised to end mass food bank dependency, 14 million Britons—one in six households—are now food insecure. With working families increasingly reliant on charity, the government's failure to tackle the root causes of poverty is driving systemic decline and social unrest.
• via The Guardian
British households will pay £1,755 for energy from October - another increase sold as modest while families sink deeper into debt. The 2% rise announced by Ofgem marks the institutionalization of what was once called a "crisis" but is now simply the new normal for a country that cannot deliver basic affordable energy to its citizens.
• via The Standard
The mathematics of modern Britain reveal a peculiar achievement: we've constructed a tax system where earning £99,999 leaves you better off than earning £149,000. This isn't a quirk or an oversight. It's the logical endpoint of a state apparatus that views productive citizens primarily as revenue sources to be squeezed, rather than assets to be cultivated.