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Readers respond to Jonathan Freedland’s article about Tony Blair’s vision for the futureJonathan Freedland says Tony Blair “would say you can only address [poverty and inequality] once the economy is…
June 2, 2026
· 1 min read
Inequality
Oxfam finds the 20 richest Australians now hold more wealth than the bottom 3 million households, analysis shows Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe wealth…
June 1, 2026
· 1 min read
Tony Blair
The inequality caused by technological innovation is not a given. Labour can harness that change to serve society, not dominate itStreeting and Burnham accuse Blair of failing to confront inequality…
May 27, 2026
· 2 min read
Labour
Potential leadership candidates join senior figures in saying the former PM’s essay does not address today’s challengesWes Streeting: Blair wants to leave our future to the marketsWes Streeting and Andy…
May 27, 2026
· 1 min read
Jim Chalmers
Tackling ‘intergenerational equity’ is laudable but surveys show young and old alike fear the economic future will not be as good as the pastGet our breaking news email, free app…
May 23, 2026
· 1 min read
Food poverty
Closure of local shops and poor public transport leave households struggling to access healthy and affordable food‘Absolutely beautiful’ but no shops for miles: the Cotswolds’ rural food desertsRural Britain is…
May 18, 2026
· 1 min read
Class issues
‘Polyclass’ of 6 million people consider themselves to belong to more than one social category, researchers sayMore than a third of Britons say they have changed social class, with upper-middle…
May 16, 2026
· 1 min read
Inequality
The top 1% have it hard, tooSee more of Fiona Katauskas’s cartoons here Continue reading...
May 8, 2026
· 1 min read
Climate crisis
Findings come after third-hottest April on record globally and amid fears of more brutal European summer weatherEconomic inequality adds more than 100,000 deaths to the vast toll from heat and…
May 8, 2026
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Life expectancy
Readers respond to the news that people in the UK are spending fewer years in good health than a decade agoA major cause of the fall in healthy life expectancy…
April 30, 2026
· 1 min read
Social mobility
Social mobility groups say post-16 funding gap risks young people falling out of education, work and trainingA coalition of 14 social mobility organisations is urging the government to fund a…
April 28, 2026
· 1 min read
Australian immigration and asylum
Alliance of 48 councils across Australia issue damning statement calling for more support for people in ‘immigration limbo’, joining growing chorusGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news…
April 25, 2026
· 1 min read