Tory party insiders say that Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson has embarked on a programme of regional visits for one-to-one meetings with key Tory members. Williamson was accused just last month […]
Tim Montgomerie is a former Times comment editor, co-founder of The Centre for Social Justice alongside former Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith and founder of the Conservative Home […]
I spent this evening reading through the Tory strategy document, ‘2020 Vision: an Agenda for Transformation‘. It makes disturbing reading – a mix of delusion, hypocrisy and some revealing elements […]
This is a difficult post to write, but I think it has to be written. So please, don’t make the mistake of thinking what I’m about to say means my […]
I wrote yesterday about how the Dept for Work & Pensions’ response to my FOI request demonstrated that the government has spent nothing on any analysis of the likely impacts […]
I’ve written more than once about the government’s multifaceted attack on disabled people, from demonisation in soundbites and via its media allies (even via the Paralympics) to the assault on […]
So, the Paralympics London 2012 is over – and I find myself feeling considerably more bereft about that than about the end of the Olympics, much as I found that […]
Alongside the many inspiring and humbling things we’re going to see during the Paralympics, we’re also, unfortunately, in for a series of nauseating spectacles – in fact, they’ve already begun. […]
It’s become something of a ritual for me to take a closer look at the latest ONS employment statistics every month. Once the government starts to trumpet (or not) its […]
The BBC’s ‘Saints and Scroungers’ programme has been on my radar for a little while now. The programme aims to expose benefit fraudsters while highlighting ‘deserving’ cases that are ‘worthy’ […]