The Week Outside Westminster – Answering the West Lothian question
Ed Jacobs presents the Week Outside Westminster: The West Lothian question, Scottish independence, United unionism, and a Welsh National Party.
Yearly Archives: 2012
‘Downsizing’ the housing strategy
Kevin Gulliver examines Grant Shapps’ housing plan and finds it lacking
Look Left – The human cost of the government’s inhumane welfare reforms
The horror of the welfare reform bill continues to loom large, with the stress and fear engendered by the government’s inhumane reforms taking an ever more worrying toll.
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
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.