Tories’ evil sanction regime in a horrific nutshell
The Tories have been censured by the UN for their vile abuse of disabled people and benefit claimants – not a fact that you will see much mentioned in the […]
Tag Archives: benefits
Landmark benefits judgment almost nobody’s talking about
As the Daily Mirror announced yesterday, the ‘Upper Tribunal’ (UT) – the body that rules on the most serious benefits disputes – ruled against the government’s treatment of benefits claimants […]
A very different barrister needs your help
Duncan Shipley-Dalton is a long-standing friend of this blog who has given many hours of his time providing expert legal opinion on matters of importance to SKWAWKBOX readers, as a […]
Govt replaces unemployment mortgage-interest benefit with loans
One of numerous things the Tories are doing that have received little media attention is a hard kick aimed at mortgage-payers who lose their job. Up to this month, people […]
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.@Theresa_May, here’s your #ScaredSociety – and a life lost to your ‘burning injustice’
This has been one of the hardest articles I’ve written – to maintain objective distance to write about a tragedy that has me close to tears and a callousness that […]
Tories WANT you unemployed – but only short-term. Here’s why.
5 Jan 2016 I first published this article 4 years ago in response to planned government legislation. World-famous film director Ken Loach spoke brilliantly last night on BBC’s Newsnight programme […]
