The first part of this article is an extract from an excellent but shocking article by Alex Tiffin over at the Universal Credit Sufferer blog – reproduced with permission, read […]
Chief Secretary to the Treasury Liz Truss has developed a reputation for utter uselessness that is as well-deserved as any in Westminster – but she appears to have become the […]
Chief Secretary to the Treasury Liz Truss was interviewed on Monday’s Daily Politics programme on the BBC at the Tory party conference in Manchester, on the topic of the government’s disastrous […]
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 […]
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 […]
In spite of long-standing evidence to the contrary, including officials calling benefit sanctions ‘an achievement’ and revelations by the Guardian, the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) has continued to deny […]
Back in April, the SKWAWKBOX started to expose how the government, via the Department of Work & Pensions (DWP) and David Cameron’s pet project the ‘Behavioural Insights Team’ (BIT), colloquially […]
It’s not only the unemployed, the disabled and the supposedly ‘under-employed’ that Iain Smith’s DWP is terrorising. Those unfortunate enough to work for the Department of Work and Pensions are […]
IMPORTANT: this article is now here as a place-holder, pending clarification from the DWP – as even veteran DWP employees can’t agree whether the WRAG sanction information is accurate. See […]
It’s been a big day. My articles on the fake psychometric ‘test’ that the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) is forcing unemployed people to take on pain of losing […]