The Bedroom Tax Ten Years On
Ten years of the bedroom tax has failed every key government objective whilst exacerbating the housing crisis.
Why did the BBC choose to turn the latest shocking National Statistics Survey on shoplifting into a story about gangs?
MSM chooses to discuss gangs and supermarket theft to satisfy the hungry 24/7 news cycle rather than the real crisis of poverty facing millions in Food Bank Britain.
Why are gay men the new minority at Pride 2023?
If pride is a protest, should not the G in gay have the same equality as all the other letters and groups under the rainbow coalition?
Happy Anniversary Deptford High Street Telephone Box Community Hub
Who would have thought anyone could turn an unloved abandoned classic British phone box into an invaluable facility for the local community?
Liberty – working class history
As a gay man it pains me that we are all aware of the civil rights movements in the USA, India, and South Africa, but how the UK civil rights…
Solidarity not Charity
As you read this, my We Care Foodbank at Kath's Place Deptford has been saved from certain closure after former Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown heard our plight on the…
The lion and the bear that stopped the war in Mosul
Lula the bear and Simba the lion Image courtesy of People.com Pen Farthing’s battle with the state to win safe passage for his animals is not unlike the story of “The…
Kath Duncan – 20th century Scottish activist
Katherine Sinclair MacColl was born in 1889 in Tarbert, Argyll, but lived for most of her youth in Kirkcaldy, Fife, which she always considered her home. She was one of…
We Care at Kath’s Place
Since We Care was launched as the UK's largest independent food bank and advice and support hub in Lewisham in 2014, it has always ensured that, during school holidays, children…
Community candidates for community change
This May’s local election is probably the most important in our lifetime..Today we see rents, service charges and council tax all going up. At a time when it's clear many…