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May 4, 2017

What Northern Ireland can tell us about welfare reform

Imagine if, when Iain Duncan Smith began his welfare reforms, we had allocated an area of the UK where the reforms were not implemented, as a sort of control group for comparison.
October 22, 2016

Campaign seeks to bring victims of austerity 'to the table'

A new campaigning group, Cradle2Grave, has come together to "join the dots together after being battered and bruised by Tory austerity for six years".
January 27, 2016

Welfare reform - from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm

Winston Churchill said, "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." This would seem to describe perfectly the government's approach to welfare reform.
May 9, 2015

United Reformed Church minister's letter to David Cameron goes viral

An open letter to the Prime Minister from a United Reformed Church minister has been shared more than 30,000 times on Facebook.
February 21, 2015

Welfare reform and the message it sends

For a few weeks I’ve been trying to write a general critique of welfare reform, addressing each policy point by point, looking at the assumptions on which it was based, what it aimed to achieve, an
January 25, 2015

Trident poses the question for us: what is security?

What is security?

If your family is going hungry because your benefits have been cut, security might mean knowing that you have enough to eat. But Prime Minister David Cameron wants to make you secure by renewing the Trident nuclear weapons system at a cost of £100 billion.
January 19, 2015

Bedroom Tax challenge by disabled people to be heard in Supreme Court

A landmark legal battle being brought by people with disabilities against the Bedroom Tax has been given permission to go to the Supreme Court.
September 6, 2014

Conservatives defeated over harsh bedroom tax

The Conservative-led UK government was defeated in the House of Commons yesterday (5 September) after their Coalition partners broke ranks over the controversial bedroom tax. Several Liberal Democrats joined forces with Labour MPs on an Affordable Home Bill.
April 7, 2014

New research shows continuing harm caused by bedroom tax

New research shows the number of households hit by the bedroom tax fell by just 15 per cent last year, with nearly six out of seven affected households unable to avoid a cut in rent support.
February 5, 2014

Bedroom tax, inadequate housing are human rights issues

UK housing minister Kris Hopkins has tried to dismiss a critical report by UN special rapporteur Raquel Rolnik as a "misleading Marxist diatribe". But it is clear that the government is failing to meet important human rights obligations, at a heavy human cost.