Diary of a Benefit Scrounger

With a sense of deja-vu, I just read Esther McVey’sassurances to Dame Anne Begg, chair of the work and pensions committee, that the gover...

Britain, I’m frightened. Something dreadful is happening to you and you don’t know. But you’ll read my blog (indeed, if you ever g...

Anticipating the publication of Professor Harrington’s third (and, for him, final) annual review of the Work Capability Assessment, the We...

Imagine you work for a big national company. They don’t pay very much and you struggle to make ends meet. One day, the manager comes i...

This won’t be a short post, but it is a crucially important one. I have never written about something on this blog that I couldn’t pro...

Today, pretty much as I type, the Government will release the first significant figures for the transfer of claimants from incapacity ben...

Generalisations are always tricky, (Do you see what I did there?) but I think I can say fairly safely, that there is one question almost ...