Thames Water gets nationalised (by the Chinese)
Alex Hern asks why the public sector is fine for this government – so long as it’s the Chinese public sector
Monthly Archives: January 2012
Boris Johnson’s words show he doesn’t care about young people
Val Shawcross attacks Boris Johnson over his astonishingly heartless comments about the job prospects for young people.
Questions multiply over financial status of an independent Scotland
Alex Hern presents further questions, and an answer, for Alex Salmond on Scottish independence.
Playing the blame game – it’s all the immigrants fault…
Don Flynn of the migrants’ rights network responds to Chris Grayling’s appalling dog-whistle announcement over welfare cheating migrants.
DWP evidence says migrants aren’t benefit cheats. DWP’s spin says…
Alex Hern rebuts Grayling’s horrible misuse of statistics in the Telegraph, and asks if this represents the government’s real attitude to evidence based policy
It’s nearly time for the DWP’s quarterly love-in with the tabloids
In advance of the DWP releasing heavily-spun figures, Steve Griffiths counters claims in the press that suggest that disability welfare is often wrongly claimed.
Yes, but are you REALLY disabled?
Ann Milnes Roberts attempts to explain the lives behind the DLA cuts.
Introducing George’s Marvellous Deficit Calculator
With George’s Marvellous Deficit Calculator you can predict the deficit in 2012/3 from growth in 2012
The five reasons why the NHS bill is still being opposed
Alex Hern presents the five worst things still in the coalition government’s anti-NHS health and social care bill.
The British Empire – subsidising Republican presidential candidates since 2007
U.S. presidential hopeful Mitt Romney an awful lot of his wealth and income away from the yes of the American Treasury and in the Cayman Islands – international tax haven and overseas british territory, or in old-fashioned language, colony of the British Empire.