WASPI women stage noisy walkout of Commons after minister denies them pensions help
Proceedings in Parliament became a little noisier than usual yesterday – and for a good reason: Did anybody else just …
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Tory legal aid cuts have turned courts into a national shame
This Writer has published many times on the national scandal that is the Conservatives’ removal of support for legal advocacy …
Does anyone really think the UN can shame the UK over human rights failings?
So the UK has a worse record for supporting United Nations recommendations on human rights than Saudi Arabia. That’s shaming. …
Coalition government condemned over sanctions regime that tortures children
Around 100,000 children were affected by benefit sanctions between the beginning of April 2013 and the end of March 2014, according to …
Minimum wage: 37 firms shamed for failing to pay
Retail giant H&M and service station operator Welcome Break have been named and shamed for failing to pay the minimum …
More lies – or perhaps merely stupidity – from UKIP
Our friends at UKIP have been at it again. What follows is mainly from the A Liberal Life blog, detailing UKIP’s …
Shame of British press as private health’s failure is blamed on the NHS
Daily Telegraph headline this morning: “15 babies poisoned by NHS drips”. Terrifying – and entirely inaccurate. Oh, 15 babies were …
Expenses row ‘devastated’ Miller – so what? Miller devastated the disabled
According to the BBC, Maria Miller reckons she is “‘devastated’ that she has let her constituents down”. Oh really? Is …
Drug-induced? Conservative policy is to increase the national debt and make you pay
Isn’t it shameful that the Conservatives are attacking Labour because the Co-op Bank chief has been behaving like the Chancellor …
Fewer people are claiming JSA than should be. Why is McVey claiming this is good?
Only Iain Duncan Smith’s Department for Work and Pensions could claim that its success in bullying tens of thousands of …