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3 October 2008
Britain:
Forty percent of children live in poverty
26 August 2008
Scotland:
Massive public health failings responsible for CDAD deaths at
Vale of Leven hospital
14 August 2008
Britain:
National Health Service denies kidney cancer drugs to patients
7 July 2008
Britain:
Hundreds of Hull residents still suffering from last year's floods
18 June 2008
Report
to United Nations indicts Britain for mistreating children
5 June 2008
Britain:
Nineteen young suicides in South Wales
29 May 2008
Low
pay leads to poverty in British Army
14 May 2008
Britain's
rich get richer even as recession begins to bite
8 April 2008
Britain:
Tax credit system plunges families into debt
25 February 2008
Millions
denied access to dentistry in the UK
4 February 2008
Britain:
Arts Council confirms cuts
23 January 2008
Britain:
Thousands still displaced from homes flooded last summer
19 January 2008
Britain:
"Liar loans" drive hundreds of thousands into debt
18 December 2007
UK
water companies fined millions after fiddling accounts
21 November 2007
British
obesity levels the highest in Europe
13 November 2007
Britain:
Inquiry to be held into Stockline factory blast
8 November 2007
Britain: Declining hygiene standards lead to 90 deaths
at three hospitals from C. difficile
12 October 2007
British
livestock hit by bluetongue disease
18 September 2007
Britain:
Foot and mouth disease strikes again
9 August 2007
Britain:
Inequality at 40-year high
2 August 2007
Britain:
Oxford residents tell of flood's impact
16 July 2007
The
human cost of the June floods in Britain
Sheffield: Residents tell of losses caused by flooding
2 July 2007
Report
documents over one million "severely poor" children
in UK
16 May 2007
Britain:
Department of Health tries to suppress facts about Private Finance
Initiative
7 May 2007
SEP
candidate replies to letter on housing crisis in Wales
2 April 2007
Poverty
rises in Britain as money poured into Iraq war
23 March 2007
Britain:
Brown delivers a budget for the rich that penalizes the poor
22 March 2007
Proposed
new powers for bailiffs in Britain: an attack on the poor and
indebted
10 March 2007
London:
The rich get so much richer under Blair
5 March 2007
Food
industry implicated in Britain's bird flu outbreak
24 February 2007
Gun
crime claims three young lives in London Cameron pontificates,
Blair shrugs
18 January 2007
Britain:
Leaked report details plans to cut jobs and pay in National Health
Service
9 January 2007
Medical
research and big business: The case of Sir Richard Doll
18 December 2006
Britain:
Still no compensation one year after Buncefield explosion
13 December 2006
Britain:
an acute social divide in housing
9 December 2006
Britain:
Asylum seekers protest treatment at detention centres
2 December 2006
Britain:
Calls for Herceptin breast cancer drug and healthcare rationing
20 November 2006
Britain:
Farepak collapse ruins Christmas for tens of thousands
21 October 2006
Britain:
Thames Water sell-off means higher prices and job losses
25 September 2006
Britain:
Labour has shifted taxes from rich to poor
5 September 2006
UK Energy Review: A policy made by big business
Part 2
4 September 2006
UK Energy Review: A policy made by big business
Part 1
31 August 2006
Britain:
More indicators of inequality
24 August 2006
Britain:
Labour government proposes punitive welfare reforms
26 July 2006
Britain:
Charities criticise government indifference to child trafficking
20 July 2006
Britain:
Damning inquiry into Asian's death at youth prison
10 July 2006
Study
of British journalists confirms entrenchment of class privilege
24 June 2006
Britain:
Threat of national postal strike
12 June 2006
Debt
and social misery: the flipside of Britain's financial services
boom
19 May 2006
Britain:
Vauxhall axes 900 car jobs
15 May 2006
Britain: Sunday Times "Rich List"
celebrates unprecedented wealth accumulation
10 May 2006
Thousands
of jobs axed at British car plants
29 April 2006
Britain:
Government faces rising anger over jobs cut in National Health
Service
20 April 2006
Britain
unprepared for bird flu threat
18 April 2006
British
government restricts recruitment of non-EU doctors
31 March 2006
Britain:
Breast cancer patient's legal challenge highlights rationing
of health care
29 March 2006
Britain:
Drug trial leaves volunteers seriously ill Scientist attacks
lax regulatory regime
22 March 2006
Britain:
Inquiry details inhumane treatment of children in prison
14 March 2006
Scientists
criticize UK government for lack of preparedness over avian flu
9 March 2006
Britain:
Private capital and the crisis in the National Health Service
8 March 2006
London
Olympics 2012: Regeneration promises don't add up
31 December 2005
Britain:
National Health Service faces funding crisis
22 November 2005
The
return of Dickensian London
31 October 2005
UK
poverty report draws attention to widening inequalities
30 September 2005
Britain:
Gate Gourmet strike betrayed by Transport and General Workers
Union
12 September 2005
British
SWP covers for union betrayal of Gate Gourmet workers
9 September 2005
Britain:
rally for sacked Gate Gourmet workers addressed by Socialist
Equality Party
19 August 2005
Airport
catering workers still sacked at Heathrow airport
15 August 2005
British
Airways disrupted by unofficial strike
6 July 2005
Britain:
government plans peak-time road charges
27 May 2005
British
Broadcasting Corporation employees strike over job cuts
25 May 2005
Social
mobility lower in US and Britain than in other advanced countries
17 May 2005
Britain:
Labour presides over massive increase in health inequality
14 March 2005
Deregulation
leads to Britain's largest ever food recall
24 February 2005
UK
charities say Blair government contravening children's rights
17 February 2005
Britain:
Labour to privatise remains of public housing
12 February 2005
Britain:
cancer death rates reflect social divide
22 January 2005
Britain:
rise in "superbug" cases linked to decrease in hospital
cleaning staff
30 December 2004
Christmas
all year round for Britain's super-rich
24 December 2004
Britain:
poverty and homelessness rise under Labour
6 December 2004
UK
has fastest growth of psychotropic drugs on children and adolescents
22 November 2004
The
rise of Britain's super-rich
4 November 2004
UK
adolescent mental ill health rising
19 August 2004
Britain:
social inequalities widen under Blair government
28 July 2004
Britain's
380,000 "hidden homeless"
22 July 2004
Britain:
Labour's privatisation of roads
2 July 2004
Britain:
report describes "filthy" conditions at Immigration
Removal Centre
25 June 2004
Britain:
Teenagers driven to depression and suicide by exam pressures
22 June 2004
Britain:
families depend on credit to survive
14 June 2004
Britain:
Young workers face poverty in old age
9 June 2004
Britain:
Royal Mail plans worker buyout
1 June 2004
Britain:
Thousands more people could be infected with vCJD
14 May 2004
Britain:
Sunday Times details enormous gains for the super-rich
7 May 2004
Britain: Sharp rise in arson attacks on schools
Symptom of widespread youth poverty and alienation
14 January 2004
Britain:
Abortion rights under attack
23 October 2003
Britain:
Planned disposal of defunct US ships poses environmental hazard
8 October 2003
Britain:
Report highlights widespread child poverty
29 September 2003
Britain:
National Health Service faces mounting cash crisis
21 August 2003
Britain:
overcrowded prisons in chaos
2 August 2003
Britain's
media glorify convicted killer
11 June 2003
Britain:
Protest by former ASW employees highlights pensions crisis
22 May 2003
Britain: Sunday Times "Rich List"
notes fall in combined wealth of super-rich
19 May 2003
Britain:
Foundation hospitals mean health inequality is official government
policy
10 May 2003
Britain:
Parliament backs plans to privatise health care
7 March 2003
English
National Opera choristers strike against job cuts
12 February 2003
Britain:
Labour government moves to "market based higher education"
6 January 2003
Britain:
Labour government moves to dismantle public health care
30 December 2002
Britain
buys US plasma company due to continued vCJD threat
28 December 2002
Britain:
More than half all London children living in poverty
3 December 2002
British
workers face spiralling levels of debt
20 November 2002
Britain:
Children socially, educationally disadvantaged by age two
13 November 2002
Britain:
New asbestos law puts legal onus on employers
2 October 2002
Countryside
Alliance: Britain's Tory Party rears its ugly head
21 September 2002
Britain:
Endowment mortgages showing massive shortfalls
5 September 2002
Britain:
Nationwide firefighters strike draws closer
3 September 2002
Britain:
Media exploits death of school girls for law-and-order binge
24 August 2002
Correspondence
on the privatisation of Britain's postal service
13 June 2002
Britain's
media proclaims the virtues of imprisoning parents
7 June 2002
Britain:
White Paper heralds dismantling of National Health Service
30 May 2002
Rights
of British mesothelioma victims restored
27 May 2002
Britain:
Teenager commits suicide in prison
22 May 2002
Britain:
Mother faces prison for failing to send daughters to school
21 May 2002
Britain:
Asbestos ruling opens way for compensation claims
4 May 2002
Britain:
Labour cooks the books on child poverty
25 April 2002
Britain:
Calls to appoint "safety" directors conceals government
inaction
9 April 2002
Britain:
Top directors avoid pensions crisis
26 March 2002
Britain:
Shock for millions of workers who rely on private pensions
25 February 2002
British
government accedes to demands for new corporate killing offence
8 February 2002
Scotland
report exposes child poverty
25 January 2002
Britain:
Government unveils measures to dismantle public health care
17 January 2002
Britain:
Cash-for-beds scandal in National Health Service
15 January 2002
Britain:
Winter cold kills over 22,000 elderly
3 January 2002
Five-fold
increase in deaths from drug prescription errors in Britain's
hospitals
24 August 2001
British
pensioner dies after waiting nine hours on hospital trolley
31 July 2001
Britain:
Inquiry reveals role of NHS cuts in deaths of child heart patients
in Bristol
27 July 2001
Britain:
Pay survey highlights growth of inequality
26 July 2001
TB
threat grows in Britain
19 July 2001
Britain:
Labour government plans further cut in disability benefits
19 June 2001
Britain:
Labour government awards itself a large pay rise
8 June 2001
Britain:
Heavy-handed policing provokes riots in Leeds
Britain: Opposition grows to Labour's plans to sell
off National Health Service
26 May 2001
Britain:
London judge expresses sympathy for vigilante-style killing
8 May 2001
Largest
recorded outbreak of TB in a British school
5 May 2001
Britain:
Thousands of tons of condemned meat "laundered" for
human consumption
3 May 2001
Britain:
Labour government announces small rise in minimum wage
30 April 2001
The Sunday Times "Rich List"-Britain's
wealthiest 1,000
11 April 2001
Marconi
to cut 3,000 jobs worldwide
7 March 2001
Britain:
Hillsborough football disaster families support group condemns
compensation payment to policeman
6 March 2001
Britain:
Union hotline reveals widespread exploitation of call centre
staff
9 February 2001
Latest
survey shows wealth and poverty side-by-side across Britain
5 February 2001
Britain:
Corus announce over 6,000 steel jobs to go
29 January 2001
"The Ghost of Christmas Past"
Report shows health gap between Britain's rich and poor still
as marked as in Dickens' day
27 January 2001
Britain:
Privatisation of hospital cleaning is costing lives
Child abuse in Britain: Young girl's death highlights
cutbacks in social services
16 January 2001
London's
Hackney Council to impose £58m cuts package
4 January 2001
Tons
of contaminated poultry sold for human consumption in Britain
3 January 2001
Britain:
Company faces corporate manslaughter charges over death of student
23 December 2000
Britain:
Children targeted by police investigating 10 year-old's death
14 December 2000
Britain:
Vauxhall car workers protest mass layoffs
4 December 2000
Britain's
air traffic control service to be privatised
28 November 2000
Britain's
top Prisons Inspector and Children's Society call for an end
to jailing children
27 September 2000
New
survey shows widespread deprivation in Britain
19 August 2000
Rise
in juvenile suicides in Britain's prisons
27 July 2000
New
data reveals rising poverty under Britain's Labour government
25 July 2000
UK-Dutch
steel giant Corus cuts 4,000 jobs
22 July 2000
Promise
of modest increase in government spending creates right-wing
furore in Britain's media
15 July 2000
Britain:
Labour's employment initiatives cut welfare rolls and depress
wage rates
11 July 2000
Britain's
Yorkshire Water plans to off-load costs onto customers
30 June 2000
13-year-old
British boy detained for two years for drug dealing
20 June 2000
Britain:
10,000 job losses announced in one week
17 May 2000
Social
inequality increases in Britain
13 May 2000
English
hospital censured for using premature babies as human "guinea
pigs"
25 April 2000
Kids on Pills: BBC documentary
examines increase in prescription drug use amongst children
13 April 2000
Poverty,
homelessness and the London Mayoral elections
22 March 2000
Britain's Sunday Times records spectacular
increase in wealth
10 March 2000
British
government to expand use of drugs to control children's behaviour
1 March 2000
New
study confirms growing social polarisation in Britain
26 February 2000
Report
documents widespread abuse in British children's homes
4 February 2000
OECD
study highlights widespread and persistent poverty in Europe
and America
1 February 2000
Sword
attack on Cheltenham politicians: a product of social tensions
in Britain
18 January 2000
Report
predicts four in every ten Britons will develop cancer
17 January 2000
Flu
outbreak reveals crisis in Britain's hospitals
5 January 2000
Seven
drug deaths in Scotland over Christmas
31 December 1999
Mergers
lead to thousands of job cuts in Britain's utility companies
29 December 1999
Surveys
show significant growth in British Internet use
24 December 1999
Elderly
patients being left to die in British hospitals
11 December 1999
Growing social divide in Britain
Blair seeks to refute new study on the widening gap between
rich and poor
24 November 1999
British
steel firm fined over Yemeni worker's death
23 November 1999
London
pensioner dies of starvation
17 November 1999
Labour's
"homelessness czar" attacks aid to people forced to
sleep outdoors
6 November 1999
Britain's
Labour government cuts disabled benefits and gives tax handout
to business
23 October 1999
New
report shows sharp growth of inequality in Britain
1 October 1999
Labour's
"anti-poverty" audit aimed at final dismantling of
British welfare state
11 September 1999
British
prime minister's "moral crusade" targets the poor
Eyes of the child --A chilling
documentary exposing child poverty in Britain
30 August 1999
A
third of all those evicted in Britain suffer with mental illness
28 August 1999
Britain's
Labour government massages the figures on hospital waiting time
One and a half million poor in Britain going without
gas and electricity
26 August 1999
Labour
government cuts public spending in Britain to lowest rate in
40 years
20 August 1999
Dover,
England refugees become focus of chauvinist campaign
28 July 1999
The Brazilianisation of Britain's cities
The impact of globalisation on urban development
Part One and Part
Two
24 July 1999
British
government proposes draconian legislation against mentally ill
The crisis in Britain's mental health care
22 July 1999
TB
on the rise in Britain
20 July 1999
British
Labour's "modernisation programme": transferring public
assets to private capital
16 July 1999
Doctors'
report "Growing up in Britain" highlights growing inequality
in children's health
14 July 1999
Kvaerner
almost certain to close its Govan shipyard in Scotland
10 July 1999
British Labour government's latest attack on teen
parents
A modern-day equivalent of the workhouse
9 July 1999
Britain's
doctors attack government health policy
26 May 1999
Britain:
Why Labour backbenchers oppose changes in disability benefits
17 May 1999
Teenage
sexual ill-health in Britain linked to broader social malaise
11 May 1999
UK
government proposes longer working hours for junior doctors
29 April 1999
British
High Court ruling opens way for euthanasia of disabled
15 April 1999
Britain's
rich get even richer: 47,300 millionaires ... and climbing
7 April 1999
Forty
percent of children in Britain born into poverty and deprivation
27 March 1999
One
in five British adults have serious problems reading and counting
24 March 1999
European
Human Rights Commission challenges UK sentencing procedures in
the Jamie Bulger case
2 March 1999
One
in five young Britons suffer mental health problems
2 February 1999
Local
councillors investigated for misappropriating anti-poverty funds
22 December 1998
Labour's
backdoor privatisation of essential public services
11 December 1998
New
UK legislation means the poor will pay more for water
8 December 1998
Report
finds UK health inequalities have widened significantly
23 October 1998
National
Health Service cuts lead to hundreds of baby deaths in Britain
2 October 1998
British
employers have little to lose from EU's "Working Time Directive"
30 September 1998
Labour
Government set to ration healthcare
29 September 1998
Blair
government tells poor to fend for themselves
28 August 1998
British
Labour government to use unemployed as substitute for teachers
21 August 1998
Blair
government in crisis over welfare
19 August 1998
Drug
companies profiteering at the expense of the National Health
Service
12 August 1998
Modern
day Britain: where deceased humans become "waste products"
17 July 1998
Wage
restraint and privatisation from British Labour government
25 June 1998
Britain's
Labour government sets minimum wage
13 June 1998
A
quarter of all schools in Bradford, England set to close
11 June 1998
Riot
police used against students in East London
2 June 1998
Waiting-list
for hospital treatment in Britain reaches record level
20 May 1998
New
moves to privatise education in Britain
15 May 1998
Labour
government to use police against school children
8 April 1998
The background to The Full Monty
Social deprivation in Sheffield
25 March 1998
British
government prepares dismantling of welfare
4 March 1998
Growing levels of poverty in Scotland
14 February 1998
Child labour in Britain: A quarter of school children working |
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