IDS threatens harassment of working poor tenants under Universal credit

Listening to Ian Duncan Smith you would imagine that Universal Credit (UC) would soon become the eighth wonder of the … More

“Car worker wage drop casts doubt on recovery”

An article in today’s Financial Times reports that despite production of motor vehicles in the UK having increased by 45% … More

This is a letter to the Swindon Advertiser in response to MP Justin Tomlinson’s claim that unemployment in Swindon has … More

Greater London Assembly Member Tom Copley has produced a useful report on a neglected aspect of the impact of Thatcher’s … More

Download a PDF of this document here autumnstatement2013 As with every budgetary statement by George Osborne, the use of statistics … More

Doing some research on earnings in Swindon I discovered on the HMRC website that for 2010/11 earnings for self-employed people … More

You can download a PDF of this here coalitionpropaganda The Oxford English Dictionary definition of propaganda is “information, especially of … More

Download a PDFof this here strawman “Do you think somebody on £75,000 a year should get a Council house?” The … More

“Six more years of austerity” trumpeted the Financial Times in reporting George Osborne’s promise to carry on squeezing welfare and … More

Download a PDF of this here helptobuy The coalition government has brought forward ‘Help to Buy’ in an attempt to … More