The catastrophe unfolding in Gaza – where Palestinians are freezing to death in tents – is not a natural disaster but a calculated outcome of Israel’s ongoing blockade, aid restrictions and continued violence, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
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Shared ownership is set to be another broken retaining wall in the housing crisis, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
Lovelace House, a shared ownership housing scheme on Uxbridge Road in Ealing, London, 2008; Yvette Cooper
Evidence suggests Lammy’s proposals would come at a high cost: reduced fairness, diminished trust and greater racial inequality in the criminal justice system, argue TARA LAI QUINLAN and KATHARINA KARCHER
After years of austerity and denial under a new Reform UK council, a failing Send service was pushed into the spotlight by staff, unions and parents — culminating in a £1.3m funding boost and a 50% increase in front-line workers. MARTIN PORTER explains
Trump’s escalation against Venezuela is about more than oil, it is about regaining control over the ‘natural’ zone of influence of the United States at a moment where its hegemony is slipping, argues VIJAY PRASHAD
Trade union leaderships have so far stopped short of the bold industrial action over Gaza seen in Italy and Greece. NATHAN HENNEBRY calls for a re-radicalising of the union movement and rebuilding class power as vital to turning solidarity into action
Held at a last-minute undisclosed venue amid fear of disruption, a Women’s Rights Network event brought together authors and activists, offering a day of debate on feminism’s past, present and future. JADE MIDDLETON reports
SHARED ownership was supposed to be an “imaginative” housing solution pushed both by New Labour and Cameron’s Conservatives, but a recent article in online magazine The Lead says the “situation is so desperate that the plight of shared owners may well be the next big housing debacle.”
Shared ownership is for people who want to buy a flat but can’t afford ever-rising property prices. So you try and “own,” say, 30 per cent of your flat, paying rent for the remaining 70 per cent.
It’s meant to be a bridge between renting and buying. Maybe over time you can buy bigger shares of your flat and slowly join the respectable property-owning classes.
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