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Natalie Bloomer

Latest articles

News

The Carmichaels took their case to the Supreme Court

DWP wins legal case to block future benefit appeals

*Blog

"This week more than 100 women in Yarl's Wood detention centre went on hunger strike"

Week in review: The Yarl’s Wood hunger strike the media ignored

News

The DWP is using a bedroom tax case to challenge future welfare appeals

DWP goes back to court to block future benefit appeals

*Blog

"Local politicians say the crisis has been brewing for years."

Chaos in Northamptonshire: Tory party infighting and a council on the verge of collapse

*Blog

"The number of people sleeping on the streets in England is now at the highest level on record"

Week in review: Homelessness won’t be solved by hiding it from sight

News

"NHS Digital must immediately stop sharing patients’ addresses with the Home Office for immigration tracing"

Health select committee calls for immediate stop to NHS data sharing with the Home Office

*Blog

The leader of Haringey council, Claire Kober, has announced that she will be stepping down

The Haringey row is about so much more than Labour in-fighting

This isn’t a Momentum coup – it’s social housing tenants fighting back

*Comment & Analysis

Libraries have increasingly been used to replace services cut from elsewhere in council budgets

Want to tackle loneliness? Stop closing libraries

Libraries have taken up the slack of countless parental and elderly services – closing them closes communities.

*Blog

"It's worth remembering that the overall number of men in government has only dropped from 89 to 82"

Week in review: A purge of white middle-aged men? If only

*Blog

"It would be interesting to know exactly which part of Dudley's comments she disagrees with, given that just a few weeks ago the government was making a very similar argument in the high court"

May’s hypocrisy over Windsor homeless comments

*Blog

"A recent report from the Public Accounts Committee found that there were now around 9,000 people sleeping rough and 78,000 families stuck in temporary accommodation"

The man who wakes up at 4am every day to feed the homeless

News

Seventy Labour councillors from south London have today signed a letter to the shadow Brexit secretary, Keir Starmer, urging a shift in the party's position on Brexit

Labour councillors sign open letter urging party to change its Brexit position

*Blog

"The centre has seen about 100 people come through their doors today alone"

Snow on the ground and a pregnant woman at the door: Inside a homeless shelter at Christmas

News

"As we approach Christmas there are thousands of children in temporary accommodation"

Government accused of complacency over rising homelessness

News

"This decision comes after a series of FOI requests from Slater which have resulted in the publication of documents that the DWP did not want to release."

DWP ordered to publish another set of secret Universal Credit docs

*Blog

"Yesterday marked six months since the Grenfell fire that destroyed so many lives"

Week in review: Lessons from Grenfell are yet to be learned

*Blog

"The Conservatives may rally round her for now, but it's increasingly hard to see how she will survive in the long term"

Week in review: The deal is done but is it enough to save May?

*Blog

His team now understand his strengths and weaknesses"

PMQs: Corbyn’s performance wasn’t perfect but he now knows what works

*Blog

"He is the author of the problem he now claims to want to solve."

Week in review: George Osborne’s journey from Scrooge to Santa

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