Natalie Bloomer

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*Comment & Analysis

"Fox slip up at WTO shows he has no Brexit plan"

Pick of the week: Brexit plans and Labour’s transformation

*Blog

"It's easier to believe that the person you pass on the street is on the take than to think about the hardship they might really be facing"

These anti-begging posters show how the most vulnerable are demonised

*Blog

"The conditions there would not seem out of place in a third world country or 19th century Britain"

Rats, filth and cockroaches: What it’s like to live in Nicola Sturgeon’s constituency

News

St Mungo's homeless charity has served some of its tenants with section 21 notices

Homeless charity hands out eviction notices to its own tenants

*Blog

Australia's trade minister described his country's relationship with Britain as one of "yesteryear."

Pick of the week: May’s Britain returns to ‘yesteryear’

News

"Homeless individuals are sitting ducks for immigration enforcement"

Revealed: Homeless charities ‘complicit’ in rough sleeper deportations

News

"There is a system-wide failure to recognise that, just because a relationship has ended, it does not mean the abuse has"

Government’s child maintenance reforms puts domestic abuse survivors at risk

Charities have raised concerns about the new service

*Blog

Residents at Boundary House have teamed up with housing activists to highlight the conditions they are living in

Social cleansing: The mums at the sharp end of the housing crisis

The families forced to live in cramped bedsits miles from home

*Comment & Analysis

Owen Smith said that a tweet he sent earlier this year suggesting Nicola Sturgeon should eat a gobstopper was "just political banter"

Pick of the week: Owen Smith’s banter bus

*Comment & Analysis

"Some Brexiters are turning to a brutal form of patriotism in order to shut up their critics."

Pick of the week: Brexit censorship

*Blog

"It's a shocking story, but one which appears to be becoming more common"

Why are we so quick to make excuses for men who kill their families?

*Blogs

"There can hardly be a bigger disincentive to do well and get on than facing a rent hike if you do"

‘Pay to stay’ is just another way to punish social housing tenants

News

The Labour-run council applied for the injunction after a small camp of around ten tents sprung up in a local park back in April

Labour council tries to kick homeless people out of city

News

Homeless people judged to be 'low priority' by councils are turned away with little or no help

Homelessness crisis: Vulnerable people being ‘discriminated’ against by councils

*Blog

A local council has banned swearing

Pick of the week: Brexit myths and council bans

*Blog

"A new appeal process was introduced in 2013 and was beset by problems from the start"

The tactics the DWP uses to stack the odds against benefit claimants

*Blog

"For the working class kids, who are already told they’re at the bottom of society, grammar schools would be another reminder that they are below everybody else"

Grammar schools are another stick to beat the working class

News

Speaker at a protest in Hackney to highlight the use of PSPOs by local councils

Council faces backlash over powers to ban gatherings of two people

*Comment & Analysis

The new prime minister faces one of the biggest challenges this country has experienced in years

Pick of the week: Boris’s betrayal and a Brexit breakdown

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