A screw-up – at best – by Work & Pensions (DWP) Secretary Esther McVey means that tens of thousands of DWP employees will be deprived of their paltry 1% annual […]
Imagine being a parent of young children, then finding out not only that you are terminally ill – but that a law change introduced by the Tories a year ago […]
This year, the UK has rightly been celebrating the centenary of the extension of the right to vote to women. However, fewer citizens are aware that 1918 also marked the […]
In the wake of the recent bitter weather, emergency ‘cold weather payments’ have become due to thousands of low-income households across the UK – a £25 cash payment to […]
Disability support group Fightback4Justice posted shocking claims last week on its Facebook page about the DWP’s (Dept of Work and Pensions) treatment of disabled benefit claimants. The group claimed that: the […]
Controversy has raged this week over Work and Pensions Secretary Esther McVey’s membership of the ‘advisory board’ of the Samaritans, an organisation that helps those feeling suicidal or otherwise in […]
Comment In spite of Labour’s General Election surge and its continued polling strength – not to mention more than thirty u-turns Labour under Corbyn had already forced from the Tories before […]
The roll-out of Universal Credit (UC) has been a national disgrace to the government and a disaster to claimants, many of whom have found themselves penniless and forced into debt […]
Last month, the BBC revealed that huge numbers of disabled people, already hard-pressed by government cuts and a level of targeting by this government amounting to persecution and condemned by […]
A Gaby Hinsliff article in today’s Observer lists a number of supposedly-unlikely parliamentary ‘odd couples’ under the emetic title: The piece amounts to little more than a barely-veiled attack on […]