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Lloyds Banking Group offices, Lovell Park Road, Leeds (18th May 2024) Economy

Lloyds cuts off Canary, staff unpaid

Lloyds froze the Canary's account with no explanation, leaving staff unpaid, in a pattern that has also hit a…

7 July 2026
Cost of living protest at Parliament Square, London Economy

Fuel surge; adviser backs Miliband

Households face the sharpest fuel-price rise since 2022 as Burnham inherits a £4.7bn defence gap, and his own Treasury…

7 July 2026
Private equity raids children's homes Economy

Private equity raids children’s homes

Interest payments of £102 a week drain every care home bed while children in distress and disabled people left without…

6 July 2026
Britain funds the wind farms. SSE and Equinor bank the profits. Economy

Britain funds the wind farms. SSE and Equinor bank the profits.

Bills rose 13% this month as record renewables came online, but the savings never reached households. Energy firms…

5 July 2026
185,000 babies taken, no compensation Economy

185,000 babies taken, no compensation

Starmer apologised for forced adoption that stole 185,000 babies from unmarried mothers. He ruled out paying them a…

4 July 2026
A Jobcentre Plus office in England Economy

One million young Brits left behind

Over a million young people in the UK are neither in education nor employment, as experts warn of a growing 'lost…

2 June 2026
A million young people written off, and the government calls it a review Economy

A million young people written off, and the government calls it a review

Over a million young Britons are NEET, costing £125bn annually. Alan Milburn's government-commissioned review exposes…

28 May 2026
Energy bills rising 13% from July: households pay for a war they didn't start, a market they never chose Economy

Energy bills rising 13% from July: households pay for a war they didn’t start, a market they never chose

Energy bills rise 13% from July as Ofgem confirms £221 annual increase to the price cap. How the Iran war, wholesale…

28 May 2026