Benefit sanctions achieve little more than increasing anxiety and depression – LSE
Benefit sanctions lead to increases in claimants’ anxiety and depression, and a re-assessment of the role of sanctions is needed …
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Why are you cheering for Tories who have killed so many and ANNOUNCED a plan to kill many more?
The latest Mainly Macro piece from Simon Wren-Lewis is of course quite right to point out that the Tory expectation of …
‘Build, build, cut’? Or did Johnson simply announce continuation of Budget promise?
Boris Johnson seems to have painted himself into a corner with his claim to be putting more money into building …
‘Our plan is working’ says Hancock as thousands of NHS doctors plan to quit
Almost one in seven NHS doctors are planning to quit the service or retire when the current wave of Covid-19 …
The racist face of Britain: woman racially abuses black man on bus in video
This speaks for itself: A black man was subjected to a torrent of racial abuse in Bromley by a white …
Take part in the online day of action against Universal Credit sanctions
Today – July 1 – conditionality and sanctions return to the UK’s benefit system. This means the two million people …
Why are the Tories refusing to tell us how many people they are testing for Covid-19?
You know it has to be a big fail when the Tories have spent more than a month adding to …
New deal? No deal! We can’t accept a plan for the future from the failed PM who deliberately wrecked it
Some have suggested that it was a campaign speech – and as such an indication that the Johnson government is …
Keir racism: Black Lives Matter isn’t a ‘moment’, mister
Keir Starmer just can’t help himself, can he? Look at the arrogant racism in this statement: Black Lives Matter is …
Here’s why it costs so much to fight a lawsuit brought by Rachel Riley
I’ve just had the monthly bill from my lawyer. It clears me out of everything that you have raised and …