Nation of Hate or Fear?
This morning I was attacked by an anti-EU chap on the tube. I’ve been shaken all day by it, and I’m deeply frightened and worried, for all of us. We need to get very … Continue reading →
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Personal Independence Payments are a Punishment of the Poor and Ill
PIP should be a national scandal: Iain Duncan Smith’s new system already has a huge backlog and people are dying waiting
Continue reading →MAKE NO MISTAKE: Iain Duncan Smith wants the end of social security
Don’t let the bluster, incompetence and misinformation obscure the Quiet Man’s true, Tory purpose: destroying the welfare safety net
Continue reading →At last, a report that skewers Iain Duncan Smith’s welfare policies
We Are Spartacus releases its ‘almanac of condemnation’, a devastating critique of welfare reforms backed with case studies
Continue reading →Pauper management by G4S, Serco and Atos is inspired by a punitive past
The coaltion’s use of private companies to manage the most vulnerable amongst us is inspired by half a millennium of Poor Laws
Continue reading →‘Can’t work through stress? Tough luck if you are poor’ ~ An exhausted banker gets unlikely sympathy from the City. Atos shows no sign of following this example
An exhausted banker gets unlikely sympathy from the City. Atos shows no sign of following this example
Continue reading →How the SNP can still win the vote for an independent Scotland: The Yes camp can turn the debate around by focusing on the dismantling of the welfare state south of the border
The YES Scotland campaign can turn the debate around by focusing on the dismantling of the welfare state south of the border
Continue reading →It’s immoral to have food banks in one of the world’s richest countries: “These ‘genetically poor’ folk are returning food because they cannot afford to heat it up”
‘Genetically poor’ folk are returning food from the foodbank because they cannot afford to heat it up
Continue reading →‘The Tories are creating a hostile environment – not just for migrants’ : It doesn’t matter if policies work – only that they come down hard on “malingerers” and migrants
With an election not far away, it doesn’t matter if policies work – only that they come down hard on “malingerers” and migrants, writes John Harris
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