Spanish supermarkets lock up olive oil as shoplifting surges
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Reading Time: < 1 minute In Spain, the world’s biggest olive oil producer, supermarkets are locking up bottles of the staple cooking oil as prices surge and…
Bedsit Britain: 160,000 people in England crammed into unlicensed housing
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Nearly 160,000 people are living in hidden, often overcrowded and sometimes dangerous bedsit-style accommodation across England, analysis has found. Read More
Buying ready meals is more expensive than cooking the same thing at home, study finds
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Picking up a ready meal may seem cheap and easy, but it actually costs less to make the same thing at home….
Hunger, debt and stress: what it’s like to be poor
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Reading Time: < 1 minute An empty cupboard. A child crying with hunger. Harassing phone calls from creditors. An eviction notice. Contempt from people who happen to…
Free prescriptions and legal aid to end for benefit claimants not seeking work
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Free prescriptions and legal aid will be cut off for benefit claimants who are deemed fit to work and do not seek…
Bangladesh garment workers fighting for pay face brutal violence and threats
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Reading Time: < 1 minute When Masuma Akhtar arrived at the garment factory where she works on the outskirts of Dhaka on 31 October, she was expecting…
Food prices remain high despite falling inflation
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Families are paying almost double for key food items compared to two years ago as soaring inflation sends prices skyrocketing. Read More
A shirt for rice: bartering to survive in inflation-battered Argentina
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Reading Time: < 1 minute An old T-shirt for a handful of rice or some eggs: ever more Argentines are relying on barter to survive in a…
London's downsizing problem: a third of London Boomers have bigger homes than they need but nowhere to move
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Reading Time: < 1 minute While millennials and Gen-Z struggle with rising rents or – if they’re lucky – mortgage rates, new data reveals that older Londoners…
Millions of UK households forced to unplug fridge to cope with rising bills
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Reading Time: < 1 minute About 2m UK households have been forced to turn off their fridge or freezer to save money as they continue to struggle…