Why are poor taxpayers being told to subsidise Carillion’s contractors?
It must be lovely, being an executive or shareholder at a big corporation like Carillion – knowing that you can …
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Tory concession to young voters is too little and too reluctant
It’s also too obviously focused on the privileged young. The announcement that tuition fees will be frozen is pointless, coming …
Fees and loans have made higher education a perk for the rich
This is what it means to vote Conservative in the UK: It is now impossible to get the education you …
It’s a ‘NO’ from Greece! Decisive rejection of austerity
Alexis Tsipras has gambled and won. Greece has voted decisively to reject the terms of the latest loan offer from …
Newcastle City Council ‘forced’ to plunder welfare funds – BBC News
We all knew this would happen – central government cuts funding to councils, then devolves funding for welfare grants and …
Labour’s spending plan could humiliate the Tories
It seems some people are upset that Labour has announced it does not intend to increase public spending, if elected …
The minimum income is 2.5 times what people get on benefits – but still they are labelled scroungers
“How much money do you need for an adequate standard of living?” That is the question posed every year by …
The State of Osborne: a visitor’s guide
If anybody else had prattled on for 50 minutes while hardly uttering a single sensible word, they would have been …
Public and private debt reach record levels under ConDem Coalition
Household debt in the UK has reached a record £1.43 trillion, according to the BBC. What a marvellous achievement for …
Jobseekers and the self-employment trap
Yesterday’s outburst against Esther McVey and her innovative way of interpreting the benefit claimant statistics proved very popular as readers …