Report finds disabled “wrongly denied” benefit
A report by the Citizens Advice Bureau, which is endorsed by several high profile disability charities, has revealed even more evidence the tests don’t work.
Yearly Archives: 2010
Exposing the Mail’s shoddy stats on pensions
Every household in Britain faces a bill of £47,000 to meet the cost of public pension liabilities says the Mail. Except of course they won’t. It’s meaningless.
Budget 2010: View from Wales
Continuing our series of reports ahead of the budget, we’re looking at what Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland can expect; here we look at Wales.
The hypocrisy of Cameron’s attack on “vested interests”
David Cameron attacked “vested interests” at the weekend. But his own front bench has received close to £200,000 from the financial services sector.
Fox’s Sri Lankan jolly under scrutiny
Liam Fox’s paid-for trips to Sri Lanka, revealed by LFF last month, are reported today in a BBC report into MPs’ overseas trips paid for by foreign governments.
IPSA chair outlines vision of reforming expenses
Recent events leave us in no doubt that the parliamentary rulebook is in need of drastic reform. The question is, what form should it take?
Conservatives under microscope of US media
The US media is turning a more critical eye to the British Conservative party. The New York Times focuses on the “posh” strand running through the Tories.
Politics Summary: Tuesday, March 23rd
Sign up to receive this daily email by 9am every morning. The Financial Times front page details that Alistair Darling is “to get tough on offshore tax evasion” by announcing “punitive fines for taxpayers who hide money offshore”. The crackdowntest
Harnessing the distributed intelligence of the blogosphere
The mainstream media give a select group of think tanks and corporate interests air space in the name of balance. The blogosphere can help rubbish much of the bias.
How soaring inequality contributed to the crash
A similar mechanism was at work in the build-up to the great depression of the 1930s, with a great surge in the concentration of wealth in the United States.