consumer affairs Articles

European Union law ensures a fair deal for all Our rights as consumers are ones we often take for granted. Many of us purchase something we are undecided on safe in the knowledge we can return it, or we check labelling on food so we know what we are eating. Whether it...

We have a problem with the way the energy market operates here in the United Kingdom. Households have seen gas and electricity bills rise significantly over recent years, but even though there are significant savings to be made, the majority are failing to take...

This week’s Trades Union Congress conference is a chance for trade unions to resist the urge to simply ‘bang on about Labour’ and for us to focus on the challenge of representing and empowering working people right across the United Kingdom’s rapidly evolving work...

Jaron Lanier’s message in Who Owns the Future is that the digital revolution has propelled us to the start of an advanced information-based economy, ripe for exploitation by new digital elites before we've even started thinking about its fundamental impacts on the...